Norway marks decade since Breivik massacre with anti-extremism plea
Breivik, who is now 42, was sentenced to 21 years in prison but the sentence can be extended indefinitely.
By Pierre-Henry Deshayes
July 23, 2021 04:37 BST
Survivors of Norway s worst massacre since World War II called on Thursday for the country to stand up against the hatred that motivated right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik s killing spree exactly 10 years ago.
Breivik set off a bomb near the government s headquarters in Oslo killing eight people before shooting dozens at a summer camp organised by the Labour Party s youth league (AUF) on the island of Utoya, leaving another 69 dead most of them teenagers.
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Leader of AUF Party in Norway and a survivor of the 2011 shooting, Astrid Hoem, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven and a leader of the Norwegian Labor Party Jonas Gahr Store lay flowers at the memorial on Utoeya island the day before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack, in Utoeya, Norway July 21, 2021 Beate Oma Dahle/NTB/via REUTERS
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway on Thursday marks 10 years since anti-immigrant extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in the worst act of violence in the country since World War Two.
Breivik detonated a car bomb outside the prime minister s office in Oslo, killing eight, before driving to Utoeya island and shooting 69 people at a Labour Party youth camp on July 22, 2011.