I would do it all again
Breivik brags he acted out of ‘goodness and not evil’ when he massacred 77
AN unrepentant Anders Breivik yesterday defended his killing spree claiming he would ‘do it again’ given the chance.
In an incredible show of bravado the 33-year- old Norwegian boasted he was responsible for the most ‘sophisticated and spectacular’ attack by a nationalist ‘resistance fighter’ since the Second World War.
But he demanded to be found innocent and insisted he had acted out of ‘goodness and not evil’ when he killed 77 people in gun and bomb attacks last July.
Breivik said he was acting ‘in selfdefence of my country’ to prevent a civil war and declared: ‘I would have done it again.’
He said he had been inspired by Al Qaeda’s use of martyrdom and described his actions as ‘a suicide attack’ which he had not expected to survive.
In a rambling performance lasting an hour and ten minutes the Rightwing anti-muslim extremist compared himself to Native American warriors such as Sitting Bull who had ‘fought for indigenous rights’.
He also invoked the late Enoch Powell to warn of ‘rivers of blood’ in Europe and mentioned ‘multiculturalism in Luton’. Injured victims and families of the bereaved were at the court in Oslo to hear the prepared statement which was not broadcast on Norwegian TV. It was interrupted four times by lawyers or judges to hurry him up or, once, because what he said was hurtful to the families.
This was when he compared the Norwegian Labour Party’s youth wing group, who were camping on the island of Utoya where he killed 69 youngsters, to the Hitler Youth. He said: ‘The majority of young people were brainwashed and naive, indoctrinated by schools or their parents. They were not innocents but they actively upheld multicultural values.
‘Many people had leading positions in the Labour Party youth wing and were on county boards. They were in many ways similar to Hitler Youth at an indoctrination camp.’
In justifying his actions Breivik quoted from surveys conducted in Britain about multiculturalism and referenced Mr Powell’s infamous 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in which the Tory politician warned of the perceived dangers of greater immigration from Commonwealth countries.
Breivik began by describing himself as a member of the ‘Norwegian European Resistance Movement’. He said he was a ‘nationalist’ responsible for the most ‘sophisticated and spectacular act’ since the Second World War.
He claimed Marxists and liberals
‘Young were brainwashed’
had brainwashed the young in Norway and Europe by infiltrating schools and colleges and said there was ‘now no democracy in Norway’. Turning to Britain he said a recent survey suggested 69 per cent of the population see immigration as a ‘major or great problem’.
He added that another survey in the Times in February 2010 had reported that ‘three out of five English believe that the UK has become dysfunctional because of multiculturalism’.
He said the same views were held by many people in ‘Norway, Sweden, Germany and France’.
Of his actions on July 22 he said: ‘I would have done it again because offences against my people – and many partisans – are in many ways just as bad.’
Drawing to a close he said: ‘I was born and grew up in a conflict zone that is Oslo. The Labour Party bought flats in West Oslo and handed them out to Muslims. Muslims want autonomy under Sharia law in places like Luton, Paris and Marseille.’
Breivik ended by saying: ‘ The attacks on July 22 were a preventive strike. I acted in self- defence on behalf of my people, my city, my country. I therefore demand to be found innocent of the charges.’
Under cross-examination he said: ‘I know what happened on July 22 was gruesome – but it was cruel and necessary. I was involved in a suicide attack and I did not expect to survive the day.’
Eight people died in a bomb attack by Breivik in the centre of Oslo. The 69 who died during his gun rampage on Utoya the same day were mostly teenagers. He has said: ‘I admit to the acts – but not criminal guilt.’
The second day began with the dismissal of a lay judge for having said on Facebook that the killer should get the death penalty. It emerged yesterday that the day after the massacre Judge Thomas Indrebo posted: ‘The death penalty is the only just thing to do in this case.’ He was replaced by a ‘reserve’ on the panel of three lay judges and two professionals.