Oslo, July 26: BEHRING Breivik told a Norwegian judge on Monday that his bombing and shooting rampage, which killed 93 people, aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said two more cells existed in his organisation.
Breivik had earlier revealed that he had acted alone and the police said they have no other suspects in Friday’s attacks.
His remarks were relayed by judge Kim Heger in a news conference held after a closed- door custody hearing.
After the hearing, Heger said he had ordered Breivik be detained in solitary confinement for eight weeks, with no letters, newspapers or visits, except from a lawyer. The detention, in line with a request from prosecutors, will allow them to investigate the case against Breivik.
Jeering crowds awaited Breivik at Oslo district court. “ Get out, get out!” shouted Alexander Roeine, banging on a car he wrongly believed contained the mass killer. The police had in fact brought Breivik into the courthouse via a side entrance.
“ Everyone here wants him dead,” Roeine said, adding that he knew one of the dead and three survivors of the attacks.
Breivik had wanted to explain why he perpetrated modern- day Norway’s worst peace- time massacre in public. He was denied a public platform, but the judge, in his news conference, gave an account of what the 32- year- old accused had said.
Heger said Breivik had accused the ruling Labour Party of betraying Norway with mass imports of Muslims. He said his bombing of government buildings in Oslo and the massacre at a summer camp for Labour’s youth wing was aimed at deterring future recruitment to the party. The goal of the attack was to send a strong signal to the people, the judge quoted Breivik as saying.
Breivik’s custody could be extended before his trial on terrorism charges. Police said the trial could be a year away.
“ We want to see him really hurt for what he did,” Zezo Hasab, among a crowd who gave Breivik a furious reception, said.
After the hearing, a police jeep drove away an unshaven Breivik, with close- cropped blond hair and wearing a red jumper with a lighter red shirt underneath.
He appeared calm and did not try to communicate with journalists standing across the road from an underground garage when he was brought down from the courtroom.
Norwegians held a minute’s silence for Breivik’s victims.
“ In remembrance of the victims … I declare one minute’s national silence,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on the steps of Oslo University, flanked by Norway’s king and queen.
The silence stretched to five minutes as thousands stood around a carpet of flowers outside Oslo Cathedral. There were only squawking seagulls and a barking dog breaking the silence.
AFTER three months in a remote farm, laboriously pounding and mixing fertilisers, aspirin and other chemicals, Breivik drove a hired car packed with the resultant mixture to the centre of Oslo on Friday, triggering the device outside government offices, killing seven. “This is going to be an all- ornothing scenario,” Breivik wrote in his journal on the morning of the attack. “First coming costume party this autumn, dress up as apolice officer. Arrive with insignias. Will be awesome as people will be very astonished (sic),” he added.
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