Anders Behring Breivik trial a culmination of years of preparation

“A trial is an excellent opportunity and a well-suited arena the
Justiciar Knight can use,” he wrote.

“The goal for the European resistance fighter is not to win the trial but
to present his cause in the most favourable way in order to help generate a
maximum amount of sympathisers.”

What the families of the 77 people Breivik killed in the bloodiest atrocity in Norway’s
post-war history, is that he may to some extent be getting his way.

“Why does he have to tell the court what his ideology is?”,
complained Jarl Robert Christenson, whose 15-year-old daughter was one of
the 69 people Breivik shot during his massacre at a Labour party summer
camp. “We don’t care. We know it already. He will never get out of
prison anyway, no matter how much he says in the court, anyway, so why give
him the satisfaction of letting him speak freely for almost a week.”

Breivik on Friday evening handed over to his lawyers a copy of an hour-long
speech he has prepared.

But Odd Gron, his defence lawyer, on Friday said the court would cut him off
the moment he began to read from it.

“The court have sent signals to us in a meeting that they won’t allow
that,” he said.

The court has also banned live television transmission of Breivik’s testimony,
to minimise its impact.

Nonetheless the roster of witnesses Breivik has requested is designed to grant
him the attention he craves.

It includes Mullah Krekar, a radical cleric who called Osama bin Laden a “jewel
in the crown of Islam”, and Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen, who as the
blogger Fjordman, was one of Breivik’s main influences.

In his manifesto, Breivik includes model opening and closing court statements
that a ‘Knight Templar’ following Breivik’s example might use,
recommendations on selecting a defence lawyer, and information on legal
process.

“To the jury and/or members of the court,” he recommends they begin. “I
am standing here today as a Justiciar Knight Commander of the PCCTS, Knights
Templar, a pan-European organisation which is a part of the patriotic
National Resistance Movements in all Western European countries.”

When Breivik attended a hearing to extent his prison detention in February, he
followed this, almost word for word, holding out his handcuffed hands out in
a right-wing salute, and declaring: “I am a militant nationalist, a
cell commander of the Knights Templar Norway and Europe.”

He then demanded Norway’s highest military honour, to the laughter of the
courtroom.

In his manifesto, he anticipates ridicule.

After making his opening speech, he suggests, the knight should attempt to
rouse those at the court to join him in a political coup.

“By the time you are done presenting your demands, the judges and the
trial audience will probably laugh their asses off,” he concedes.

“They will laugh today, but in the back of their minds, they have an
ounce of fear, respect and admiration for our cause.”

All the indications are this is as fantastical as the order Breivik claims he
represents.

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