He is responsible for killing 77 people and injuring hundreds in Oslo, Norway's capital. Breivik's parents split when he was a year old, and Behring moved back to Norway, taking her young son with her. Breivik has two half-brothers and one half-sister from his father, and one half-sister from his mother. He grew up with his mother on Oslo's affluent West End and visited his father, who had been transferred to Paris, in the summers.
When he was 15, he had a falling out with his father, and the two have cut off contact since. Police believe Breivik planned his actions years in advance.
He visited Prague in the fall of , hoping to buy weapons in the Czech capital, which has some of the least stringent gun control laws in Europe. Breivik was unable to stock up weapons as he had planned but continued to plot hit attacks when he returned to Norway.
In June or July , Breivik moved to the small rural town of Rena about 86 miles northeast of Oslo. He started a farming business under the name Breivik Geofarm. In May , Breivik Geofarm purchased six tons of fertilizer.
It was later discovered that the bomb that exploded in the July Oslo attacks was made of a mix of fuel and fertilizer, reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bombing.
On July 22, , a bomb exploded in a car outside the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Regjeringskvartalet in central Oslo. The powerful blast killed eight people and injured hundreds.
The explosion in the small, and usually peaceful, nation came as a shock to people around the world. As news of the blast spread, Breivik boarded a ferry to the island of Utoya, 25 miles northwest of Oslo. US Coast Guard officer Christopher Hasson , who was sentenced to 13 years in prison last year on weapons and drugs charges, consulted Breivik's manifesto for tips on amassing weapons, according to another of the papers published by C-REX.
Prosecutors alleged that he was a White nationalist who was plotting an attack. Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik arrives in court on April 16, for the start of his trial.
The Counter Extremism Project CEP , an NGO that combats extremist groups, said in a statement Thursday that survivors of Breivik's attacks had voiced concern regarding his "status as an inspirational figure among far-right extremists. According to Ravndal, research indicates that within Norway the far right has not gained much appeal overall since the attacks and has been unable to turn out supporters in any numbers on the streets.
Shooting spree. On that quiet summer day in , Breivik drove a van packed with a homemade fertilizer bomb into Oslo and parked it outside a government office. A few minutes later, it exploded, killing eight people, injuring many more and damaging several buildings. Firefighters work at the site of the explosion near government buildings in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on July 22, Breivik, meanwhile, had set off by car on the mile trip to Utoya Island, where a Labour Party summer youth camp was taking place.
Posing as a police officer who was checking on security following the Oslo attack, he caught a ferry to the island and carried out a shooting spree in which 69 people died -- most of them teenagers. Many others were seriously wounded. During his trial , Breivik boasted of being an ultranationalist who killed his victims to fight multiculturalism in Norway, saying he acted out of "necessity" to prevent the "Islamization" of the country under the ruling center-left Labour Party.
A court ruling meant his testimony was not televised , denying him a chance to broadcast his views to a wide audience.
But Breivik believed his writings would inspire right-wing terrorists to follow in his footsteps. Police and emergency services gather following the massacre at a summer youth camp on July 22, on Utoya Island, Norway. While parts of his three-book manifesto were lifted from other sources , such as the writings of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski in the United States, Breivik also detailed his meticulous, years-long planning and gave strategic and operational advice. That manifesto was "paradigmatic," Feldman said, "not just because it showed what one individual can do in terms of the horrific loss of life" but also in its targeting of Muslims and what Breivik called "cultural Marxism.
Even more importantly, Feldman said, Breivik's case showed the dangers posed by lone-wolf actors who self-radicalize online through networks of like-minded individuals and carry out their preparations for violent attacks online, making them very hard to detect.
Ad hoc extremist groups come into focus in post-January 6 criminal charges. At the same time, Feldman said, there has been the "slow rise, some would call it mainstreaming, of right-wing extremism," helped in part by exposure on right-wing media platforms.
Despite this backdrop, Breivik's actions and manifesto have gained limited traction, according to Ravndal. His analysis for C-REX indicates that "in the beginning the far-right across the board rejected him," said Ravndal.
An online support network that was established for Breivik later collapsed. It was only with the emergence of online forums like 4chan and 8chan that Breivik once again started to get positive mentions, Ravndal said.
A third of them were still suffering last year from serious health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and headaches, a recent paper by the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies found. Mass murderer Anders Breivik claimed that he had been abused for being placed in near-isolation since he was jailed. Published On 22 Jul But he does not define who we are — we do.
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