Anders Breivik Was Challenging and Aggressive Child, Court Hears
THE GUARDIAN: Forensic psychiatrists give evidence to Oslo court where Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in Norway last year

Norwegian social workers considered removing Anders Behring Breivik from his mother when he was four years old because she was unable to cope with his behaviour, described in court as challenging, clinging, hyperactive and aggressive.

The claim came as it emerged that for a brief period in the 1980s Breivik and his sister were taken away from his mother – who was separated from his father – and put into respite care at her request.

The evidence of social problems beginning in Breivik's childhood came in a detailed psychiatric assessment presented to the Oslo court where Breivik, 33, is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre in Norway last summer, including scores of young people shot at a political camp on the island of Utøya.

The evidence was being given by two forensic psychiatrists, Torgeir Husby and Synne Sørheim, who controversially ruled that Breivik was suffering from "paranoid schizophrenia" when he carried out the murders. » | Peter Beaumont in Oslo | Thursday, June 14, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik Tells 'Beautiful Nordic' Prosecutors He Is Their 'Defender'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik has demanded that his two ethnic Norwegian prosecutors recognise him as the true "defender of their heritage".

Fixing prosecutors Inga Bejer Ingh and Svein Holden with a direct stare, he attacked their argument that his extreme anti-islamic ideology was the result of "delusions" as "very arrogant."

"Bejer Engh, a beautiful Nordic woman, should recognise the defender of her own heritage," he said. "And Holden, a beautiful young Nordic man, should recognise the defender of his own genealogy."

Judge Wenche Arntzen immediately stopped him, cautioning him for commenting on the prosecutors and not information from the witness.

The 33-year-old extremist has always denied being a racist or a fascist, arguing that he defends the rights of indigenous people across the world, and likening the condition of today's Norwegians to Native Americans in the nineteenth century.

He expressed satisfaction that Randi Rosenqvist, a consulting psychiatrist who saw him in prison, told the court she believed that it was his extreme ideology had led him to plan and carry out last year's brutal massacre, rather than paranoid schizophrenia or another mental disorder. » | Richard Orange, Oslo | Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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Tuerie d’Oslo: Un éminent psychiatre propose de réexaminer Breivik
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Un médecin norvégien a suggéré vendredi un nouveau diagnostic pour Anders Behring Breivik, ajoutant à la confusion sur la santé mentale de l'extrémiste de droite après deux expertises officielles aux résultats contradictoires.

Au 33e jour du procès de Breivik jugé pour la mort de 77 personnes l'an dernier, Ulrik Fredrik Malt, professeur de psychiatrie à l'université d'Oslo, a estimé plausible que l'accusé fut atteint du syndrome d'Asperger, du syndrome de la Tourette et de narcissisme.

Le syndrome d'Asperger est une forme d'autisme qui se caractérise notamment par un manque d'empathie, tandis que celui de la Tourette est un trouble neurologique marqué par des tics, ce qui pourrait notamment expliquer, selon lui, les sourires esquissés par Breivik à des moments souvent déplacés.

Ces troubles de la personnalité ne relèvent pas de la psychose, synonyme d'irresponsabilité pénale et donc d'internement psychiatrique, si les juges devaient in fine retenir un tel diagnostic. » | afp/Newsnet | vendredi 08 juin 2012

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Norway Spends Hundreds of Thousands on Psychiatric Unit for Breivik
RT: If mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is proved insane, he now has a special place to go. Part of Norway’s high security Ila prison has been converted into a psychiatric unit for the killer.

Estimates of the cost of the conversion vary between 130,000 and 260,000 euro. Norwegian daily Verdens Gang reported on its website that none of the country's existing mental facilities are considered secure enough for Breivik, whose sanity is the key issue in his ongoing trial.

"We are building a high security hospital in Ila," deputy health minister Robin Koss told the newspaper, adding the facility near Oslo still needs state certification. » | Fridau, June 08, 2012

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Arzt: Breivik leidet "wahrscheinlich" an Asperger-Syndrom
DIE PRESSE: Der ehemalige Kinderpsychiater des norwegischen Attentäters vermutet, dass Breivik eine Persönlichkeitsstörung hat. Das allein erkläre aber nicht seine Taten.

Der einstige Kinderpsychiater des norwegischen Attentäters Anders Behring Breivik vermutet, dass sein ehemaliger Patient unter dem Asperger-Syndrom [E] leidet. Per Olav Naess sagte in einem am Freitag veröffentlichten Interview mit dem Norwegischen Rundfunk NRK, es sei "sehr wahrscheinlich", dassBreivik seit seiner Kindheit unter der Persönlichkeitsstörung leidet. Das Asperger-Syndrom ist eine mildere Form des Autismus. » | Ag. | Freitag, 08. Juni 2012

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Norwegian Far Right Defend Breivik's Views on Islam
BBC: Defence witnesses from the far right in Norway have backed Anders Behring Breivik's views on Islam in court on Day 31 of his murder trial.

They said Norway was threatened by Muslim immigration, an argument used by Breivik in an attempt to justify massacring 77 people and injuring 242.

Breivik's defence said the extremists' testimony proved he was not insane because others shared his views.

However, the speakers did not condone Breivik's attacks.

Breivik admits bombing government buildings in the capital Oslo before shooting young Labour Party supporters at a camp on the lake island of Utoeya on 22 July.

Norway, a small nation famous for its traditions of political tolerance, was traumatised by the attacks.

The trial is seeking to establish whether the 33-year-old is sane, in which case he will be sent to prison. If not, he will be held in a psychiatric institution.

The court warned on Tuesday it might not be able to deliver its verdict until 20 July or even 24 August, for logistical reasons.

'We're at war'

Arne Tumyr, who heads an organisation called Stop the Islamisation of Norway, described Islam as "a religion of violence, a religion of wars".

His organisation, he said, considered Islam "a threat to Norwegian society and values". » | Tuesday, June 05, 2012

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Breivik revient sur les facteurs de sa radicalisation
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Anders Behring Breivik, jugé pour la mort de 77 personnes l'an dernier en Norvège, a détaillé lundi les agressions dont il dit avoir été victime de la part de musulmans, dès sa plus tendre enfance.

Autorisé à prendre la parole au 30e jour de son procès, Breivik a expliqué que le premier incident s'était produit dès l'âge de sept ans, quand un diplomate turc, père d'un de ses camarades, avait détruit son vélo parce qu'il avait été offensé.

Puis, l'extrémiste de droite a recensé une longue liste d'incidents dont lui ou des connaissances auraient été victimes dans sa jeunesse: gifles, rixes, tentatives de vols et trois cas de viols même si, selon le journal Verdens Gang (VG), les jeunes filles concernées ont nié les faits auprès de la police.

«Pris séparément, tous ces épisodes ne sont pas si graves mais leur somme a contribué à façonner mon opinion des musulmans», a déclaré l'accusé.

«Ils ont très souvent en commun le fait que des familles musulmanes aient bénéficié de la part de l'Etat d'appartements dans l'ouest d'Oslo», le quartier chic de la capitale norvégienne, a-t-il dit. » | ats/afp/Newsnet | mardi 05 juin 2012

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Breivik Judge Caught Playing Solitaire in Norway Court
FOX NEWS: OSLO -- A judge at the trial of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was caught playing solitaire on his laptop during Monday's proceedings, the VG newspaper reported.

Ernst Henning Eielsen, one of the five judges for the case, can clearly be seen on court cameras playing the card game.

According to VG [Verdens Gang], Eielsen was playing the game on a solitaire website, and images showed solitaire in his browser window for up to 16 minutes before the court was adjourned for lunch.

A Swedish expert was testifying while the judge played the game.

A court spokeswoman denied the judge was not paying attention and said the game may have helped him concentrate. » | Newscore | Monday, June 04, 2012

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Norway Prison to Hire 'Friends' to Play Chess and Hockey with Breivik
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Norway's Ila prison will hire trained 'friends' to keep confessed mass killer Anders Breivik company, as he is deemed too dangerous to mingle with ordinary prisoners.

"It could be anything from a team for indoor hockey to people who are willing to play chess with him," Knut Bjarkeid, director of the Ila prison, told Norway's Verdens Gang newspaper.

He said that a "professional community" was necessary because the Norwegian prison service was not willing to inflict years of isolation on Breivik, and he might try to seize other inmates if allowed to mingle with them. » | Richard Orange in Malmö | Thursday, May 32, 2012

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Breivik was victim of 'blood diamond' scam: Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik transferred nearly $5,000 into a Liberian man's bank account and spent another $13,000 travelling to Liberia and buying equipment, after falling for what appears to be an elaborate blood diamond scam. » | Richard Orange, Oslo | Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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Breivik Took Stimulants Before Massacre - Expert
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Breivik took illegal substances to increase his physical and mental capacities on the day he launched a killing spree last July, an expert told an Oslo court on Thursday.

Before he launched his July 22 bomb attac[k] on a government building in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on Utoeya island, Breivik said he had taken an an ECA stack, a combination of ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin.

This mix is illegal in Norway and the United States among other countries but is popular among body-builders and is often used for weight loss and as a stimulant.

"He was slightly to moderately under the influence of a high affecting the central nervous system," Professor Joerg Moerland of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health told the Oslo district court on the 28th day of Breivik's trial.

The 33-year-old right-wing extremist has said he took 50 percent more than the normal ECA stack dose authorised in the European Union only a few hours before his attacks.

Breivik has told the court the drug cocktail allows "the brain to absorb more oxygen and this results in better physical and mental performance." » | Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik Acted Alone, Norwegian Police Have Told a Court
THE AUSTRALIAN: NORWEGIAN police have said that Anders Behring Breivik had no accomplices when he massacred 77 people, but the confessed killer maintained he belonged to a network ready to strike within the next 15 months.

Whether or not the mysterious Knights Templar organisation exists is an important question, since it can shed light on the focal point of the trial: Breivik's sanity when he carried out his twin attacks last July 22.

Does the right-wing extremist really belong to a network created to protect Europe against multiculturalism and a "Muslim invasion", as he claims, or has he simply dreamed up this organisation, of which police have found no trace?

"We feel sure of this conclusion: no evidence in this case suggests any physical or psychological accomplices," Oslo police chief Kenneth Wilberg told the Oslo district court on the 27th day of Breivik's trial. » | AFP | Thursday, May 31, 2012


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Anders Behring Breivik a Self-styled 'Metrosexual' Who Used David Beckham as Example

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik was a self-styled "metrosexual" who used David Beckham as an example, his trial in Oslo heard.

The Norwegian mass killer's life "fell apart" after a failed relationship with a Belarusian internet date left him struggling with his sexuality, his friends told the court.

"That was perhaps his last attempt at dating a girl like the other boys did," his best friend's ex-girlfriend told the court.

Breivik's friends suspected the 33-year-old extremist might be homosexual because he was feminine and fastidious about his appearance, another friend, a lawyer in Norway's Ministry of Defence, said.

"He used make-up powder, those kinds of things, and he explained that as being 'metrosexual'. He made reference to David Beckham being that at the time."

Breivik, who admits to killing 77 people in Norway last July, retorted angrily when allowed to respond at the end of the day's proceedings.

"I have not been vain after 2006, and I've never been feminine either," he complained. "The only function that this powder had was as a cover to hide acne." » | Richard Orange, Oslo | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

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Mass killer Breivik Had Unusually Close Relationship with Mum, Norwegian Court Hears

HERALD SUN: NORWEGIAN mass killer Anders Behring Breivik had an unusually close relationship with his mother and friends thought he was afraid of coming out as gay, a court heard today.

Two of the 33-year-old's friends gave evidence at the court in Oslo in which they described the right-wing extremist as obsessed with how he looked.

Four friends were due to testify in the trial today and a statement from Breivik's mother, Wenche Behring, will also be read out.

One of the friends said he thought Breivik was depressed or was a closet homosexual after he moved back in with his mum in 2006, Dagbladet newspaper reported.

The witness said, "I think they had a more friendly relationship than a mother and son normally have." » | Newscore | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM NORWAY: Breivik’s family avoids testifying: Lawyers for terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik have opted against calling his family members and several other key persons from his past to testify, at Breivik’s own request. The prosecution isn’t calling them in either, even though they could shed important light on the main question that needs to be addressed in his trial: Whether he’s sane or insane. » | Nina Berglund | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik 'Asked for Band-Aid When Arrested'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The policeman who arrested Anders Behring Breivik described a calm but disconcerting killer who asked for a Band-Aid for a small cut on his finger.

On the 25th day of his trial for killing 77 people last July 22, Breivik surprised the court when he hailed the police, who have been severely criticised in Norway for not acting quickly enough to stop the bloodbath, insisting they did the best job possible under difficult circumstances.

Haavard Gaasbakk, the head of local police operations, told the Oslo district court he had exchanged a few words with the today 33-year-old right-wing extremist when he handcuffed him last year.

"You are not the ones I am targeting. I consider you as brothers. It's a coup: I must save Norway from Islamisation," Breivik had said as he lay on the ground with the police officer kneeling on his back.

The man on the ground was also dressed as a police officer and had just spent more than an hour methodically executing panicked youngsters attending a summer camp hosted by the ruling Labour Party's youth wing. » | Source: AFP | Friday, May 25, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik 'Will Not Appeal Guilty Verdict If He Is Found Sane'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik has said he will not appeal a certain guilty verdict if the judges deem him to be sane.

The 33-year-old said there would be absolutely no reason to appeal if I am declared criminally accountable".

Breivik has confessed to the twin attacks that killed 77 people in Oslo and Utoya but has refused to plead guilty, insisting they were "cruel but necessary" to stop the ruling Labour Party's "multicultural experiment" and the "Muslim invasion" of Norway and Europe.

The question of Breivik's sanity is a focal point of the trial. » | Source” AFP | Thursday, May 24, 2012

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La contre-expertise déclarant Breivik sain d'esprit validée

LA PRESSE: Une commission médico-légale a validé lundi la contre-expertise psychiatrique d'Anders Behring Breivik ayant conclu que l'auteur des attaques, qui ont fait 77 morts en Norvège, était suffisamment sain d'esprit pour être tenu pour responsable de ses actes, selon les médias locaux.

Si cette décision est confirmée, le tribunal d'Oslo se trouvera dans une situation inhabituelle avec deux rapports d'experts-psychiatres dûment validés, mais dont les conclusions divergent radicalement.

Une première évaluation officielle réalisée l'an dernier par deux premiers experts avait conclu que l'extrémiste de droite, aujourd'hui âgé de 33 ans, était psychotique, souffrant de «schizophrénie paranoïde», ce qui le condamnait donc à être interné en asile psychiatrique plutôt qu'à se retrouver derrière les barreaux.

Mais une contre-expertise, ordonnée après le tollé suscité par ces conclusions, avait en revanche conclu le mois dernier que Breivik était suffisamment sain d'esprit pour pouvoir être tenu pour responsable de ses actes devant la justice. » | Agence France-Presse | Oslo | lundi 21 mai 2012

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Man Sets Himself On Fire Outside Anders Behring Breivik Trial

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A man has set himself on fire outside the courtroom where Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik is being tried on terror charges.

Norwegian newspaper VG [Verdens Gang] posted a video clip of the man who appeared to be Norwegian, shouting, “Shoot me! Shoot me!” when he reached the court security, before pouring an inflammable liquid over himself and setting himself alight.

"There were police officers on site and the fire was put out quickly," police operations leader Finn Belle said. "The man received burn injuries and was transported to Oslo University Hospital."

Despite damage to his stomach and chest, the man was conscious and groaning as he was taken away on a stretcher.

Belle said police had yet to determine if the self-immolation had anything to do with the trial. » | Richard Orange | Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Utoya Survivors Face Anders Behring Breivik

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Five young men and women wounded by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik during his gun rampage last July gave gripping descriptions of their struggles to escape death.

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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Victim's Family Member Throws Shoe at Anders Behring Breivik During Trial

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The trial of Anders Behring Breivik was interrupted briefly by a family member of a victim who hurled a shoe at the confessed mass killer and yelled "go to hell" before being escorted from the court room.

The shoe attack, which came as a coroner presented more autopsy reports on the mostly-young victims of the July massacre at Utoya island was followed by applause, "bravos" and tears among onlookers in the courtroom, and led to a temporary suspension of proceedings on the 17th day of the trial.

The black shoe did not hit Breivik but landed on one of his lawyers, Vibeke Hein Baera, who sits between the accused and the onlookers.

"Luckily, it was just a shoe," Hein Baera said.

The attacker, a man of Iraqi origin whose brother was one of the 69 people Breivik shot dead on Utoya on July 22, was quickly brought under control by security guards and escorted out of the courtroom as he continued to shout in English: "Go to Hell!"

When the proceedings resumed a few minutes later, Breivik addressed the onlookers. » | Friday, May 11, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik 'Cried With Joy' As He Carried Out Utoya Massacre

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik shouted with joy as he carried out his massacre on Utoya island, a survivor of the Norwegian atrocity has claimed.

Tonje Brenna told the Oslo district court how she had heard the killer's ecstatic shouts as bodies fell around her hiding place in the crack of a cliff.

"I am absolutely sure that I heard cries of joy," said the 24-year-old head of the ruling Labour Party's youth wing, AUF, who was the first of the Utoya survivors to take the stand.

"If I had to spell it out, it would be WOO-HOO. Obviously cries for joy," she said.

Seated at a table just a few feet from her, Breivik, who has showed [sic] virtually no emotion since his trial began on April 16, sat shaking his head in disapproval as Miss Brenna recounted the events of July 22.

The 33-year-old right-wing extremist, who is eager for the court to find him of sound mind so his anti-Islam ideology will not be written off as the ravings of a lunatic, has insisted that he never laughed or smiled during the massacre. » | Source: AFP | Wednesday, May 09, 2012

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