"He says he has written a presentation that will take an hour, and he wants to read that," Odd Gron, from Advokat Lippestad, told the Daily Telegraph. "But the court have sent signals to us in a meeting that they won't allow that."
Breivik handed a copy of the presentation, which runs to more than 8,000-words, to his lawyers when he met them on Friday night. His trial opens in an Oslo courtroom today and is expected to last ten weeks.
To aid him in his preparation, Breivik has been supplied with a computer, a political dictionary and a paper copy of the manifesto he sent out on the day he launched his massacre.
On July 22 last year, Breivik first set off a car bomb outside government buildings in Oslo, killing eight people, before travelling to the small island of Utoya [Utøya] northwest of the capital where he spent more than an hour methodically shooting and killing another 69 people, mostly teenagers.
He has admitted the killings, but plans to argue that he should be acquitted as he committed the act in self[-]defence. » | Richard Orange in Oslo | Sunday, April 15, 2012
