BLOOMBERG: Anders Behring Breivik, charged with killing 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last July, today rebuffed intense questioning about his militant links as prosecutors tried to prove that such networks don’t exist.
“Your intention is to try and sow doubt about whether the network exists,” the 33-year-old Norwegian said in court in Oslo today. “That is the purpose right? I hope that you will try to ridicule me less.”
Breivik, an Oslo native, killed 69 people at a Labor Party youth camp on the island of Utoeya and detonated a car bomb by the prime minister’s office, taking eight lives. He has been indicted on two terror charges as well as murder and if deemed sane may be sentenced to detention for a maximum of 21 years with the possibility of extensions.
“I don’t wish to discuss that,” Breivik repeated today as the prosecution questioned him on the validity of claims that he made his militant connections online, before travelling to Liberia to meet a Serbian national for information and training, and later to London to become part of a militant group.
“The police do not trust my statement,” Breivik said. “‘They do not think that there is a Serb. They do not think there is a person who was my English contact.” » | Kristin Myers | Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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