One witness, Frida Holm Skoglund, 20, was so affected by her ordeal that she asked Breivik to leave the courtroom before she would speak. He viewed proceedings via a video link from an adjoining room.
Wearing a headband made of daisies, she described in a low voice how she had pulled a bullet from her wounded leg before leaping into the water to swim the exhausting 600 yards to the mainland.
“I touched my thigh and felt something sharp there,” she said. “I pulled it out and I saw, I felt the bullet. It was not until later that it hurt,” she said.
She had run to the southern tip of the island, leapt into the water and swum. When she turned around around, she saw that those who had hesitated had been shot dead.
The witness [sic] tatements are expected to take up much of the fourth week of Breivik’s trial for the brutal massacre of 77 people in Oslo, and the nearby island of Utoya, last July. Breivik pleads guilty to carrying out the killings, but claims they were “necessary” to alert Norway to the threat he believes is posed by Islamic immigration into the country.
At the end of today’s session the 33-year-old extremist complained to the judge that the psychiatrists who have assessed his sanity will have their statements broadcast on national television, while the testimony he read out on the first day of the trial was not.
“I find it completely unacceptable that my ideological explanation will not be broadcast, while the experts’ testimony allowed broadcast. This will be skewed and will made me look insane,” he said. » | Richard Orange | Malmö | Monday, May 14, 2012
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