Norway's day of remembrance
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July 30, 2011, Saturday
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NORWEGIANS began a day of memorials yesterday for victims of last week's bombing and shootings, including the first funerals for the 76 victims.
"Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said at a memorial service in the People's House assembly hall.
"We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it," he said from a stage adorned with red roses, the symbol of his governing Labor Party.
Labor Party youth leader Eskil Pedersen said in his speech that the gunman attacked Norway's core values, such as democracy, tolerance and fighting racism.
"Long before he stands before a court, we can say he has lost," Pedersen said. He vowed that the youth organization would return next year to Utoya island - where the shootings occurred - for its annual summer gathering, a tradition that stretches back decades.
Another memorial service was being held at a mosque in an immigrant district of Oslo.
Norway's police said yesterday that all those killed in the attacks have been identified and that those reported missing have been accounted for.
Stoltenberg has urged his increasingly diverse Nordic nation to show unity at the services in the face of its deadliest assault during peacetime.
Norwegian news agency NTB said suspect Anders Behring Breivik was picked up at a jail yesterday and transported to police headquarters in Oslo for further questioning.
Investigators believe the 32-year-old Norwegian acted alone, after years of meticulous planning, and have found nothing to support his claims that he is part of an anti-Muslim militant network plotting a series of coups d'etat across Europe.
Breivik was questioned for seven hours on July 23, the day after the twin attacks targeting the government district of Oslo and a youth camp of the prime minister's left-leaning Labor Party on the island northwest of the capital.
He admitted carrying out the attacks but has denied terror charges, saying he is in a state of war, according to his lawyer and police.
Breivik has been charged with terrorism, which carries a maximum jail sentence of 21 years. However, it is possible the charge will change to crimes against humanity, which carries a 30-year prison term, according to Norway's chief prosecutor Tor-Aksel Busch. "Such charges will be considered when the entire police investigation has been finalized."
A formal indictment isn't expected until next year, Busch said.
"Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said at a memorial service in the People's House assembly hall.
"We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it," he said from a stage adorned with red roses, the symbol of his governing Labor Party.
Labor Party youth leader Eskil Pedersen said in his speech that the gunman attacked Norway's core values, such as democracy, tolerance and fighting racism.
"Long before he stands before a court, we can say he has lost," Pedersen said. He vowed that the youth organization would return next year to Utoya island - where the shootings occurred - for its annual summer gathering, a tradition that stretches back decades.
Another memorial service was being held at a mosque in an immigrant district of Oslo.
Norway's police said yesterday that all those killed in the attacks have been identified and that those reported missing have been accounted for.
Stoltenberg has urged his increasingly diverse Nordic nation to show unity at the services in the face of its deadliest assault during peacetime.
Norwegian news agency NTB said suspect Anders Behring Breivik was picked up at a jail yesterday and transported to police headquarters in Oslo for further questioning.
Investigators believe the 32-year-old Norwegian acted alone, after years of meticulous planning, and have found nothing to support his claims that he is part of an anti-Muslim militant network plotting a series of coups d'etat across Europe.
Breivik was questioned for seven hours on July 23, the day after the twin attacks targeting the government district of Oslo and a youth camp of the prime minister's left-leaning Labor Party on the island northwest of the capital.
He admitted carrying out the attacks but has denied terror charges, saying he is in a state of war, according to his lawyer and police.
Breivik has been charged with terrorism, which carries a maximum jail sentence of 21 years. However, it is possible the charge will change to crimes against humanity, which carries a 30-year prison term, according to Norway's chief prosecutor Tor-Aksel Busch. "Such charges will be considered when the entire police investigation has been finalized."
A formal indictment isn't expected until next year, Busch said.
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