Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: day six as it happened

2.46pm That ends day six. Court is adjourned.

2.43pm The judge has read to the court comments from the Norwegian
commission for forensic medicine, which has asked for “further work”
to be done on the second psychiatric report into Breivik. This is the
report which found he was sane.

2.31pm There is now some wrangling going on over whether the cameras in
court – which will be filming proceedings again from now on, or at least
until Breivik again gives evidence – will be allowed to film the
killer’s face.

2.27pm The judge is now dealing with some administrative issues, such
as if – and when – Breivik will return to the witness box. Today had
been scheduled to be his last day of questioning, but the prosecution has
applied for more time.

The media inside the courtroom have asked if they are permitted to film Breivik’s
face over the coming weeks.

2.25pm Day six of the trial is coming to a close.

2.07pm The questioning now seems to be exploring whether Breivik
is capable of empathising with his victims.

He is vehemently denying that he laughed while carrying out the attacks.

1.48 Breivik returns to court in handcuffs, back in session.

1.28pm court adjourns for a 20 minute break.

1.20pm Breivik tells the court he believes Norwegian Aid Group members
who were on the island, one of which he killed, were an acceptable target as
they “bring people from the third world to Norway”. Audrey
Andersen
reports that he is beginning to look increasingly uncomfortable
under questioning from the legal team for the victims.

1.11pm Associated Press files this, summing up developments so far:

Anxious to prove he’s not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring
Breivik has told a court that questions about his mental health are part of “racist”
plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

Breivik, who has admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and youth camp
massacre, said Monday that no one would have asked for a psychiatric
examination had he been a “bearded jihadist.”

“But because I am a militant nationalist, I am being subjected to
grave racism,” he said. “They are trying to delegitimize
everything I stand for.”

Breivik rejects criminal guilt for the bombing and shooting rampage on July
22, saying the victims had betrayed their country by embracing immigration.
His mental state is a key issue in the trial.

1.01.pm More from Audrey Andersen on the defence’s attempts to
show how rational Breivik was at the time his attack.

Breivik is discussing how he questioned the age of his victims before
killing them. The idea seems to be that he wants to highlight how rational
he was, and that he could chose, for example, not to kill some because they
were too young.

Breivik looks up and makes direct eye contact when questioned. Overall, he
is calm, dispassionate and composed. It really is hard to believe that he is
recounting the intentional massacre of 69 people, mainly teenagers.

1.00pm Breivik tells the court he didn’t shoot people on the ferry to
Utoya because of his “conscience”.

He said he did “not want to hurt civilians or those that were not
politically engaged”.

12.15pm The lawyers are questioning Breivik on his earlier
assertion that he didn’t wear his uniform in court because there were
psychiatrists watching him.

12.03pm Court is back in session. Defence lawyer Geir Lippestad takes
over the questioning.

11.13am While court adjourns, Audrey Andersen highlights a
discrepancy in Breivik’s testimony.

The killer has repeatedly said that had the bombing gone to plan (he said it
didn’t because the building did not collapse) he would never have travelled
to Utøya. He also said previously that he believed his chances of surviving
the bombing were “5 per cent”.

This morning however, he has repeatedly said he had been “dreading the
attack on Utøya for a long time” – which seems unusual if he was
95 per cent sure he would never get there.

11.05am Lunch break. Court adjourns for one hour.

11.03am Breivik seems to prefer the questioning of the male
prosecutor Svein Holden. His answers are much more hostile to
questions asked by his female colleague Inga Engh. As we
approach lunch on the sixth day of questioning, both parties appear to be
tired of each other.

10.58am Audrey Andersen writes:

The court has heard that Breivik made a number of demands after capture,
which were written down in police reports immediately after his arrest.

These included:

1) that parliament and government would be dissolved and conservative
nationalists would take over.

2) a “counsel of guards” would be put in place

3: the ideology of radical nationalism would be put in place to ensure that
the multiculturalism polices be reversed.

10.48am The court is shown an image of Breivik in uniform which
he took himself in his mother’s flat in the middle of the night. He is
refusing to answer any more questions regarding uniforms, claiming the
prosecutor is trying to make fun of him.

He does however reveal that he wanted to wear the uniform in court, but
decided against it because “there are psychiatrists in court analysing
me”.

10.41am Last week our chief foreign correspondent David Blair
wrote that Breivik showed sporadic signs of self-awareness. Examples
of this can be seen this morning:

10.28am The latest from our reporter in court Audrey Andersen:


Prosecutor Engh asked Breivik if he thought there were any parallels between
what he had done and a war situation.

Breivik replied that it was “not a war but a political attack …. and
I was trying to prevent a future civil war. Not just me but other political
nationalists – we believe that this will happen”. He likened himself to
Fidel Castro, who he said was politically “exactly the same”.

Asked how his historical role models might feel about what he did on Utøya,
he told the court “they would turn in their graves over the ongoing
islamification process”.

10.10am A constant theme running through Breivik’s testimony has
been his anger at what he perceives as the prosecution attempting to
ridicule him. It seems this is happening again.

10.00am Questioning turns to why Breivik called police to
surrender – and why he continued to kill afterwards.

9.48am Prosecutors probe Breivik on how he feels about his
victims.

9.45am Court resumes.

9.39am To recap, the main developments so far are that Breivik compared
the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying
he lost contact with his friends and family after the July 22 attacks.

Calling the rampage “necessary,” Breivik compared being shunned by
those close to him to the grief of the bereaved, saying “The only
difference was that for my part it was a choice.”

He also said he wanted to apologise for killing “innocent” people in
his Oslo bombing, but offered no similar apology for the Utoeya massacre:

Quote
I would like to offer a large apology to those who were injured or even killed
in the bombing of an Oslo government building, as they were just passing by
and had no political connections.

9.18am A 20 minute recess is called. Breivik is
handcuffed and led out of the court.

9.09am The court is being shown pictures of the fake police uniform and
ID that Breivik wore on Utoya.

9.01am More from Audrey Andersen in court.


Questions are now focusing on the aftermath of the killings.

Prosecutor Engh asks: “Did you think that the police might kill you?
Breivik replies: “I wondered about how emotionally stable the police
might be, they might have lost someone, for example.”

The killer is asked about whether he worried about what might happen to his
own family. He says he knew that Norway would go into a “state of
emergency” and that his family might be targeted.

8.54am A further insight into Breivik’s thinking.

He tells the court he is “deeply sorry” about the death of Kai
Hauge, a pedestrian who was caught in the Oslo bombing. He says he now knows
that he had no links to political parties and wants to apologise to the
bereaved.

The prosecutor asks about the other relatives, do you feel for them?

No, he replied. Utøya “was a political indoctrinaiion camp They were
legitimate targets”.

8.49am As the questioning continues, flowers continue to be pile up
outside the courtroom.

8.43am Breivik is talking about a young boy whose life he spared. The
prosecutor asks if the boy saw him carrying out the killings, he says yes
but it “would be wrong to kill a child”.

Quote
I saw that he was stunned and crying. He was in a state of shock and howling,
and paralysed. It must have been the worst experience. Later I discovered
that the boy was Berntzsen’s son (first victim). I must have caused him so
much pain and he has lost his father.

He is asked about his conscience.

QuoteIt was a small barbarous act to prevent more barbaric acts – but I have
made a choice not to focus on this – I have been practising for years. I
know the suffering I have caused.

8.21am In court for us today is Audrey Andersen. She sends this
from the courtroom:

Breivik will be questioned today on accountability and by extension his
sanity. The judge will try to clarify certain details – and determine what
Breivik remembers and what he has since read.

Prosecutor Inga Engh is going over the various locations where people were
killed, showing Breivik a map and asking him if he has any recollection of
what happened.

At Bjølskvika, Breivik says he used a rifle and shot towards 3 people. “Then
I walked towards Stoltenberg Rock and recalled 3 people, al least 2 women
and maybe one man. Not sure if I used the rifle or the glock.”

He describes how he tricked people into thinking he had arrived to rescue
them, saying he had a boat to take them to safety. Some seemed sceptical,
while others were relieved. “Then I rasied the glock and shot a girl in
the head and then panic… I shot form 1 – 2 metres”.

“Killing people is against human nature …but it was necessary”,
he said flatly.

8.18am The evidence has become extremely graphic very quickly. Breivik
is discussing how he would shoot people who were lying in a pile because “it
is common for people to play dead” in such situations.

8.11am Questioning begins and we are straight back to where we left
off, going through details of what happened on Utoya, as Sky News reporter Trygve
Sorvaag
reveals:

8.03am Developments already this morning:

8.02am Breivik has been led into court in handcuffs, followed soon
after by the judges. Court is now is session.

7.44am Breivik’s horrific testimony is due to end today, after five
days. It has been at times extremely difficult to hear, as he has recounted
in chilling detail the calculated way in which he went about the slaughter
of teenagers on Utoya.

7.40am Thomas Indreboe, the citizen magistrate who was removed from the
bench in the Breivik trial after it emerged he had written on
Facebook that he believed the killer deserved the death penalty, has been
speaking to AP about the case, saying he “didn’t quite understand”
why Breivik got to start his defense by reading an hour-long statement about
his extremist political views.

QuoteWhen you look at other countries, people shout and scream.

Because what he did is so serious and horrible. There is no other justice
(Than the death penalty).

7.36am The Associated Press news agency has been writing on the
atmosphere inside the courtroom, and the quiet dignity being shown by the
survivors and relatives of the dead:

QuoteThe subdued atmosphere during the trial of a right-wing fanatic who
confessed to slaughtering 77 people on July 22 reflects Norway’s almost
self-punishing efforts to avoid feelings of vengeance against the
unrepentant gunman.

“This is the Norwegian way,” said Trond Henry Blattmann, whose
17-year-old son was among the 69 people killed in Breivik’s shooting
massacre on Utoya island. “We need to carry this out in a dignified
manner. If people were shouting and screaming this would be a circus and not
a trial. We don’t want it to be a circus.”

Like other Scandinavians, Norwegians are not prone to express their
emotions out loud. But the good behavior of the crowd inside courtroom 250
has surprised even some local observers.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor of social anthropology at Oslo
University, said that by treating the trial with “respect and decency,”
Norwegians are showing defiance against Breivik by standing up for values at
the core of their national identity.

7.30am Our chief foreign correspondent David Blair, who was in
court all last week, wrote this piece over the weekend, on six
days in the company of a mass murderer
:

For six hours of testimony, day after day, his tone of voice scarcely
altered. Whether Anders Behring Breivik was describing how he shot a teenage
girl through the head, or disclosing that he named his rifle “Gungnir” after
the magical spear of Odin, he addressed the court in the flat monotone of
the failed telephone salesman he once was.

The voice gave little away, but the killer’s eyes, posture and physique
spoke volumes. As the days wore on and he became unsettled by the
prosecution’s questioning, white specks of dandruff flecked Breivik’s dark
jacket, beads of sweat glistened on a face pockmarked by acne, and a
motionless comb-over grew more slicked and gleaming.

Sitting a few rows behind him in the Oslo courtroom, I listened to his
excruciating account of how he had dispatched his victims on Utoya island
with a handgun if they were close by, or using a rifle if they happened to
be at longer range. At that moment, I realised that I was near enough to the
33 year-old to have been in the former category. Suddenly, I had some small
sense of how the people he killed would have seen him in their last moments:
a ball of controlled aggression, with a round, perspiring face, and eyes
that never seemed to blink.

7.15am Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of day six 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.

Norway shootings: July 29 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 28 as it happened

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Norway shootings: July 25 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 24 as it happened

Norway terrorist attacks: July 23 as it happened

Oslo explosion: July 22 as it happened

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