Anders Behring Breivik: my tears were for Norway

On Tuesday, Prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh asked him why he had cried.

“Because my country is in the process of dying – it was the sorrow over seeing
my country … deconstructed,” he said.

It was “especially the songs, combined with the message” that brought tears to
his eyes, he said, adding: “It was my first YouTube video.”

Breivik earlier in the day Monday had sat stone-faced for more than an hour as
prosecutors read a long list of names of those injured and killed in the
July 22 attacks, providing chilling details of how they died, many of them
with multiple bullet wounds to the head and back.

Engh also asked Breivik why he had toned down his rhetoric when he read a
73-minute statement to the court on Tuesday, as per the judge’s
instructions.

“I had no choice … I had to or be sent to a crazy asylum,” he said.

He also said he wanted to spare the feelings of the survivors and victims of
the families.

“I have never had any intention to act in dan unacceptable way towards the
(survivors and relatives) – I have no intention of adding to the(ir)
burden,” he said.

“I can’t even comprehend the suffering I have caused,” he added.

He did not however apologise for his acts.

Breivik has confessed to the attacks but has entered a plea of not guilty,
saying he acted in self-defence to defend Norway from the threat of
multiculturalism.

He has repeatedly described his acts as “cruel but necessary”.

If the court finds him sane he risks a long prison sentence, otherwise he
could be sent to a closed psychiatric ward, possibly for life.

Source: AFP

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