Anders Behring Breivik right-wing extremist responsible for the Oslo bomb and mass shooting on the Island of Utoya, Norway.
Anders Behring Breivik (born 13 February 1979) is a Norwegian right-wing extremist who has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011, a bombing of Government buildings in Oslo that caused eight deaths, and a mass shooting at a youth camp of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya, where he killed 68 people and wounded 96. Breivik's far-right militant ideology is described in an online manifesto 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence, posted by Breivik on the day of the attacks under the anglicised pseudonym Andrew it he lays out his xenophobic worldview, which includes support for varying degrees of cultural conservatism, right-wing populism, anti-Islamization, far-right Zionism and Serbian paramilitarism. It further argues for the violent annihilation of Islam, "cultural Marxism", and multiculturalism, to preserve a Christian Europe. Breivik has confessed to what he calls "atrocious but necessary" actions, but denies criminal responsibility. Breivik claimed contact with Norwegian and international far-right political movements, and claims to belong to an international anti-Islam network with two cells in Norway and more in other countries. Police and experts doubt these claims but have not dismissed them completely. On 25 July 2011, Breivik was charged with "destabilising or destroying basic functions of society" and "creating serious fear in the population", acts of terrorism under the criminal law, and ordered held for eight weeks—the first four in solitary confinement—pending further court proceedings. Prosecutors are considering charging him with crimes against humanity under a 2008 law.
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Location: Oslo, Norway, Scandinavia
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