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Norway killer, at scene, said attacks "necessary"
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August 16, 2011, Tuesday
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NORWEGIAN mass killer Anders Behring Breivik understands he is seen as a "demon" but said last month's massacre was "necessary" when police took him to the scene, his lawyer said yesterday.
Breivik, 32, has confessed to the bomb and gun attacks which killed 77 people on July 22, 69 of them at a Labour Party youth summer camp on Utoeya island. Police escorted him there on Saturday to try to reconstruct how the bloodshed happened.
"Breivik understands that people think of him as a demon," his lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told the daily Dagbladet.
But, he added, the self-styled "Crusader" repeated to himself out loud on the journey to the island with police: "It was necessary, it was necessary."
It was sentiment, Lippestad said, which his client had also felt when heading to Utoeya three weeks ago, heavily armed: "He has said that when he took the boat over he thought: 'I give up, I am not going to do this.'
"But then he thought that it was necessary to change Europe and Norway, as he says, and he went through with it."
Breivik, in a document posted on the Internet, criticized Norway's ruling Labour party for supporting Muslim immigration and multiculturalism.
Breivik, 32, has confessed to the bomb and gun attacks which killed 77 people on July 22, 69 of them at a Labour Party youth summer camp on Utoeya island. Police escorted him there on Saturday to try to reconstruct how the bloodshed happened.
"Breivik understands that people think of him as a demon," his lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told the daily Dagbladet.
But, he added, the self-styled "Crusader" repeated to himself out loud on the journey to the island with police: "It was necessary, it was necessary."
It was sentiment, Lippestad said, which his client had also felt when heading to Utoeya three weeks ago, heavily armed: "He has said that when he took the boat over he thought: 'I give up, I am not going to do this.'
"But then he thought that it was necessary to change Europe and Norway, as he says, and he went through with it."
Breivik, in a document posted on the Internet, criticized Norway's ruling Labour party for supporting Muslim immigration and multiculturalism.
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