Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: day eight live

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Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: day eight live

April 25th, 2012

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1.42pm The defence is asking Breivik about his ability to
look after himself. He says he is able to cook and clean, and used to have
several friends who liked him as he was a “very funny person”.

He denies ever “hearing voices”.

1.10pm Breivik is being asked about his time in isloation in prison. He
says he handled it better than he thinks most people would. He says he was
pleased when psychiatrists came to talk to him and he could be “social”.
The psychiatrists had a “nice humour”, he says.

1.00pm The defence team has taken over questioning. They too, will
probe Breivik about his sanity.

12.54pm We are back. News agency AP have written a summary of today’s
proceedings so far:

Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik on Wednesday slammed a
psychiatric report that declared him insane as based on “evil
fabrications” meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent.

“It is not me who is described in that report,” the right-wing
extremist, who admitted killing 77 people in bomb and shooting attacks on
July 22, said in court.

A second psychiatric examination found Breivik sane. The five-judge panel
trying Breivik on terror charges for the attacks will consider both reports.

Breivik admits to the bombing of Oslo’s government district that killed
eight people and a subsequent shooting massacre at a Labor Party youth camp
that left 69 people dead, most of them teenagers. He claims the attacks were “necessary”
and that the victims had betrayed Norway by embracing immigration.

If found guilty, Breivik would face 21 years in prison, though he can be
held longer if deemed a danger to society. If declared insane, he would be
committed to compulsory psychiatric care.

12.20pm Court breaks for 20 minutes.

11.50am This testimony is hugely important to Breivik. He is
desperate to convince the judges – and more importantly the the
psychiatrists in court watching his every move – that he is sane, that his
actions were rational, and that his thought process throughout was logical.

But he is getting himself tied up in knots trying to use historical examples
to back up his facts, again referencing figures such as Nelson Mandela, the
IRA, Hamsun and dissidents from the former Soviet Union.

11.32am Audrey Andersen with the latest :

At the start of his evidence, Prosecutor Holden asked Breivik
about his reaction to hearing – in grusome detail – about the injuries
sustained by his victims and the devastating effect the bomb has had on
survivors. He replied:

It would be impossible not to be affected by all these descriptions but
tougher for others than myself, but I find it tough – it is terrible and
violence is the last solution – it does not change the grounds for the
action but unfortunately this is just the beginning of violent acts in
Europe. We hoped that the Labor party would see their mistake for drowning
our country in immigrants and say sorry but instead they still keeping going
on the same direction.

Breivik is now detailing his objections to the psychiatric report which
found him to be insane. His objections, broadly, are:

• 80% of the report is “wrong”

• The psychiatrists began with a conclusion and then wrote the
report to back up their view

• The interviews were not taped

• They took the word “I” from the sentences in order to
make Breivik seem “retarded”

• Mis repreented his phobia of bacteria – he says the “face
mask” they said that he was wearing was actually a “particle filter”
for dust from drilling work for later work.

• They claimed he had a fear or radiation, untrue he says, he
feels no fear

11.16am Breivik is addressing the psychiatric report which found he is
insane and suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He tells the court that “80%”
of the report is “made up”. He says:

The report is evil fiction. This is not me. If I had read about the person
described, I would have agreed: That person belongs in mental hospital, but
it is not me.

11.06am Court in session again. Anders Breivik takes the stand
for the final time.

10.32am While court is adjourned for an early lunch, here is the head
of operations for Oslo police yesterday explaining how he warned
headquarters to be wary of more attacks on the city after Breivik set
off his car bomb.

10.00am Lunch is called. One hour earlier than usual.

9.53am Statement now from a female survivor, Tone Maria With,
aged 46, who happened to be walking to buy cat food when she was caught in
the bomb blast.

9.37am The court is now hearing a statement from another survivor, Vidar
Vestli, who is unable to attend court due to the severity of his
injuries. He was in Oslo to pick up his wife, who worked at a government
department. His chest was “full of shrapnel” and he lost his right
leg.

His mental health “has hit rock bottom,” he said.

9.19am Our reporter in court Audrey Andersen has more detail on
the survivor’s testimony:

Thoresen was working as a temp in OBOS Cooperative association when the
bomb detonated.

“I remember it all and heard a loud bang and saw flames, I put my arms
up to protect my face. I felt no pain, just very hot, like being in a sauna
too long – looked at the building and saw huge damage,” he said.

He saw an injured man and attempted to approach him to help “but then
noticed that there was a stream of blood pouring from my left arm”. He
was worried that if someone did not come to help him “I might die”.

A man called Erik came over and he said “I don’t have a clue what to do”
but Thoresen “recalled I had a bag with clothes in nearby and said that
the clothes could be used to tighten areas of my body to stop the bleeding.
My survival instincts kicked in but I thought I might have lost my legs as I
still did not feel pain”.

In tears, he told the court how he was rushed to hospital for emergency
surgery and began hallucinating about his childhood. He was in hospital for
a total of 3 weeks but is still ill regularly and doctors continue to find
new pieces of shrapnel embedded in his body.

“Psychologically, I have been able to talk openly and that seems very
positive according to the counsellors,” he said.

With that his evidence finished and he left the stand.

^{Survivor Eivind Dahl Thoresen in court}

9.07am Survivor Thoresen’s harrowing testimony is having a major
impact on those in the courtoom. He has been operated on five times since
the blast, still walks on crutches and is terrified of loud noises.

9.02am The survivor says the ambulance driver who took him to hospital
has since told him that he thought he was going to die from his injuries:

9.00am This is the first time Breivik has come face to face with
someone who survived one of his attacks. He is sat just metres from where Thoresen
is describing how he survived.

8.55am Moments after the bomb exploded Thoresen describes seeing
another victim with horrific injuries who he began to approach to help,
before realising that he himself was bleeding heavily.

He said he lay down in the road and tried to stop the bleeding from his arm,
he noticed his dark blue jeans were soaked with blood. He shouted for help
and remembers thinking he might die.

8.51am The first survivor of the bomb blast is giving evidence. His
name is 26-year-old Eivind Dahl Thoresen.

8.25am Court takes a 20 minute recesss following more harrowing bomb
testimony.

^{The scene following the bombing on July 22 last year}

8.17am In the meantime we continue to hear coroner’s reports detailing
injuries to bombing victims. They are extremely graphic.

8.07am Today Breivik will return to the stand to argue that he
is sane, and should not be sent to what he has repeatedly referred to in
court as ‘the mad house’.

He will be questioned directly on two psychiatric reports written before the
trial – the first of which found him insane, the second sane. This is an
important moment for Breivik. He said that to be declared insane
would be “a fate worse than death”. He is desperate to persuade
the court of his sanity.

That is likely to happen this afternoon. Until then we have the remaining
coroner’s reports into how the bombing victims died, and then testimony from
victims who survived the bombing.

7.58am Breivik is in court and we are set to begin the first session.

7.41am After testifying for five days, Breivik listened silently
yesterday as others described the mayhem caused by his bombing of Oslo’s
government district.

Many in the court wept and families embraced while forensic experts detailed
the horrendous injuries to four of the eight victims killed by the
950-kilogram (2,100-pound) fertilizer bomb on July 22. But Breivik’s
face remained unchanged expressionless.

“More than 100 body parts were found in the government district,”
said Ole Morten Stoerseth, a police official tasked with identifying the
blast victims.

7.40am Our reporter in court, Audrey Andersen, has written this
piece on yesterday’s developments.

A security guard working in Oslo’s government district today told court of
the “war zone” created by Anders Behring Breivik after he
detonated a bomb in the city.

After five days of testifying, Breivik listened silently as witnesses
described the mayhem he caused.

Tor Inge Kristoffersen, a security guard working in Oslo’s government
district, had just zoomed in on the registration plates when Breivik’s 2,100
pound bomb-laden van exploded.

The bomb killed eight people and seriously injured nine others on 22 July
last year in Oslo’s government district.

“I was just about to send a text message to find out more about the
driver,” he said.

7.15am Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of day eight of
the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-Right extremist who
confessed to killing 77 people in Norway
on July 22. The day is due to start at 7am GMT (8am BST, 9am Norway). For a
reminder of those horrific events, and the aftermath the following week, our
live coverage from July is below. You can also see our coverage of day one
of the trial as it happened here,
day two here,
day three here,
day four here
and day five here.