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

April 24th, 2012

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Langli recalled standing next to the head of an anti-terror squad in Oslo
when he received a call about the second attack at the Labor Party’s youth
camp on Utoya, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Norwegian capital.

“I saw on his face that it was something serious,” Langli said. “And
while I was watching him he said out of the corner of his mouth: ‘Shooting
on Utoya.'”

Langli said he first got a report of a suspect with a “non-Nordic”
appearance leaving the scene. He then got another report of a Nordic-looking
suspect, which made him believe there were two suspects.

When he heard about the Utoya shooting, he started thinking the bomb and
the massacre were the actions of the same person.

“I thought there was a connection. But I didn’t have any evidence for
that,” Langli said. Turning to Breivik, he added: “I could not
imagine there being two people with so many crazy ideas.”

^{The scene following the bombing on July 22}

12.43pm Court now hearing extremely graphic details of injuries victims
sustained in bombing.

12.24pm Court resumes after lunch with two police witnesses, Eva
Birkefeldt and Ole Morten Stoersteth.

Birkefeldt is detailing the crime scene following the bomb blast and, using a
number of images, is illustrating the damage caused by the bomb.

11.09am Lunch break is called for one hour.

10.41am Langli tells the court that a colleague told him at around
6.30pm about reports of a mass shooting at Utoya: “I knew by his face
that there was something terribly wrong,” he says. The officer then
dispatched special operations unit Delta, who were assisting with the bomb
blast, to the island. At the bomb site, the dead were covered with blankets.

He says the media acted respectfully and passers by were a “great help”
in the aftermath of the bomb.

10.32am More detail on officer Langli‘s evidence from Audrey
Andersen in court.

The officer was on the scene immediately and “knew it was a terror
attack”. He called for help from the special operations unit called
Delta force.

He told the court:”I saw two people on the ground very seriously
injured – I presumed they were receptionists as they were wearing white
shorts – and heard later that one had died”.

He says he met his colleague Bjørn Arntzen at the scene and together they
began to work on an action plan, with Langli taking charge of coordinating
health services, police and fire crews. It was at this stage that Breivik
was thought to be “non-African but with slightly brownish skin”.
Soon afterwards, Breivik was identified as “Nordic”, causing
police to believe for a short while that they were looking for two people.

10.25am The court hears that the first description being circulated
about Breivik by police was a man of “dark complexion”.

10.11am Officer Langli explains his actions during and after the
bomb blast:

10.08am The next witness is police officer Thor Langli who
coordinated the response to the bomb blast. He takes the stand.

10.06am The judge has declined a request from Norwegian media to be
able to film Breivik during other witnesses’ testimony. The judge
ruled that Breivik may act differently if he knows he is being
filmed.

9.20am A twenty minute break is called.

9.08am Police re-constructed Breivik’s bomb using manuals
belonging to the killer. The court is now watching a six minute video
demonstration of the bomb going off.

8.59am Pictures of Breivik arriving in court this morning have
just come in. He has sat expressionless throughout the evidence today so
far.

8.51am Audrey Andersen writes:

Breivik’s homemade bomb was 950kg, composed of artificial fertiliser,
diesel and aluminium. Photos and maps are presented to the court , one
showing the huge crater after the bomb blast.

Christiansen was at home in Høvik, just outside Oslo, when he heard the
blast. On his own initiative, he travelled to the site and took the first
photos of the aftermath.

We are now seeing images of the buildings that were damaged.

8.41am The next witness is Svein Olav Christiansen, a Ministry
of Defence expert on blast damage to buildings.

8.35am The security guard reveals he had his two children, aged six and
nine, with him on the day of the explosion – thankfully they were away from
the area hit by the blast. He described working at the building now as “very
difficult” and like “working in a war zone”. He told court:

Norway is a democracy and I work for the Norwegian state but am not a
member of any political party, why should Breivik target me?

With that, his evidence is finished.

8.28am More detail on security guard Kristoffersen’s evidence
from our reporter in the courtroom Audrey Andersen:

Kristoffersen said he was on duty on the day of the bombing and began work
around 2pm. He worked below the reception area, below ground level, and
recalled that a colleague rang him that to say that he had picked up a van
on the security cameras. It was not allowed to park there. He began to
investigate this further and saw on CCTV the white van and soon after a man
came out wearing a guard uniform.

He checked the area around the van. He then attempted to check the owner of
the vehicle and zoomed in on the licence plates – as soon as he did that,
the car bomb exploded.

“I was about to send an sms message to find out more,” he told
the court, “suddenly half of the camera view disappeared, a combination
of the blast smoke and the blast itself, then water began to pour out.”

He recalled “fire alarms going off”. He then rang and gave all
the information to the police. “I saw dead people outside and terrible
destruction,” he said.

^{People stop to look at the damaged buildings following the blast in Oslo}

8.14am No one went out to check the vehicle because all angles could be
seen from the CCTV, Kristoffersen says. After the blast, their closed
radio network was down for half an hour. Staff communicated on personal
mobile phones. “I lost one colleague,” he tells the court.

8.08am Kristoffersen worked in a basement under the main Government HQ
monitoring security. He is asked to describe what he saw that
day:

8.02am We are underway. The first witness, Tor Inge Kristoffersen,
a government security employee, takes the stand.

7.56am Breivik’s defence team is back in court. We are due to get
underway in five minutes.

7.47am Yesterday was scheduled to be Breivik’s last day of
evidence, however the prosecution has applied for more time for questioning.
We expect to see him return to the stand again this week. As for today,
freelance journalist Lars Bevanger provides some detail on what we can
expect:

7.35am At the heart of this trial is the issue of Breivik’s
sanity. Throughout his evidence over the past six days he has had a team of
psychiatrists sat in front of him, monitoring his every word and taking
copious notes. If found sane by the court, Breivik faces 21 years in prison,
though he can be held longer if deemed a danger to society. If sentenced to
psychiatric care, he would be released – in theory at least – once he’s no
longer deemed dangerous.

Two psychiatric examinations conducted before the trial reached opposite
conclusions on whether Breivik is psychotic, but the second of those
reports, which found him sane, has not yet been approved by the Norwegian
Board of Forensic Medicine. Yesterday the panel highlighted several
shortcomings in that assessment, and requested additional information from
the two psychiatrists who wrote it.

In particular, the forensic board said it could not be established whether
Breivik had adjusted his behavior during the examination as part of a
strategy to be declared mentally competent.

Paal Groendahl, a forensic psychologist who is not involved with the
case but has followed the trial in court, said the panel’s queries
underscore the difficulty in assessing Breivik’s state of mind. He said:

I don’t think it’s any closer to being resolved.

7.28am Our reporter in court, Audrey Andersen, has written this
article on yesterday’s developments:

Anders Behring Breivik phoned the police to surrender during his killing
spree, but then decided to carry on “until I die” when they failed
to return his call, he claimed.

Twenty eight of his victims died after the Norwegian extremist rang the
police twice from a mobile phone he found on Utoya Island, where he hunted
down members of a Labour Party youth camp.

On the sixth day of his trial in Oslo, he said he had continued the “suicide
mission” because he assumed the police would arrive soon and kill him.

The rampage lasted an hour and ended with Breivik laying down his weapons
and being arrested.

His testimony was designed to show that he was not insane, because he had
made a rational decision to continue towards his goal of killing as many
people as possible when the police did not immediately arrive following his
calls. He has admitted to killing 77 people the youth camp massacre and a
bombing on July 22.

Appearing more animated than previously, he said questions about his mental
health were part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim
ideology.

No one would have asked for a psychiatric examination had he been a “bearded
jihadist”, he said.

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

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