Good evening. ten years on from the devastating terror attack in utoya norway is once again reeling after a deadly bow and arrow attack left five people dead. police are treating it as an act of terrorism. a 37 year old is being held after a man went on the rampage last night in the town of kongsberg, from where mark lowen sends this report. a mediaeval weapon of modern terror, piercing the calm of this once sleepy town. police were called after six o clock last night, when an attacker fired indiscriminately from his bow and arrow. when they tried to intervene, he unleashed more volleys. by the time they caught him half an hour later, he had killed four women and one man and injured three others. he was reportedly also armed with a knife. today, police identified him as 37 year old espen andersen brathen, a local resident of danish nationality, who had converted to islam and had previously raised
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Concerns over radicalisation. and they say he s confessed. the act itself looks like a terror act, but we do not know what is the motivation of the perpetrator here. i think we have to wait for the investigation. the supermarket where the killing spree began bears the scars of the horror, and kongsberg, this town of 25,000 people, has been shattered. i m shocked, i can t believe it has happened in a small town like this. i ve been active within archery. i recognise the sound from a compound bow and i can hear the tingling of the arrow hitting the streets. - norway s new prime minister, on his first day in the job, takes over a country in mourning. translation: these are gruesome acts
Society, little suspicion and i think that actually people today were also a bit relieved that this is not someone part of a jeff hardy network or a far right network, that this is a man who police say acted on his own and has no followers, no online presence has been detected on him, so he seems to be a single case and that relieved people in kongsberg and the rest of norway. in the long term, how does norway root out extremism, it is notjust a problem for norway, but many other countries, in greater depth? i believe in what the former prime minister said about showing humanity and tolerance and being an open society. extremism also comes from feeling like an outcast, or being on the outside of society, so our best
Not acknowledged, then we could not overcome, how to deal with far right terror if we do not know who are the victims. actually, today, as it was mentioned before, there was a new government today, social democratic labour party government after eight years of conservative rule and two of the ministers were actually survivors from the attack and the generation of new politicians are coming around to the power from being victims of far right extremism ten years ago. has being victims of far right extremism ten years age- ten years ago. has norway found a wa to ten years ago. has norway found a way to continue ten years ago. has norway found a way to continue living ten years ago. has norway found a way to continue living freely - ten years ago. has norway found a way to continue living freely whilst | way to continue living freely whilst also dealing with the prospect of a tax, be it from far right inspired extremists or islamist inspired extremists? i extremists or islamist inspir