At the end of today’s session the 33-year-old extremist complained to the
judge that the psychiatrists who have assessed his sanity will have their
statements broadcast on national television, while the testimony he read out
on the first day of the trial was not.
“I find it completely unacceptable that my ideological explanation will not be
broadcast, while the experts’ testimony allowed broadcast. This will be
skewed and will made me look insane,” he said.
Miss Skoglund made it to the mainland, despite an asthma attack and calls of
“come back here!” from Breivik.
“It was very absurd. I didn’t really understand what was going on but I would
never have swum towards a person like that,” she said.
Another witness, Lars Gronnestad, 20, recounted how he had hidden under trees,
his lung punctured by a bullet, smearing soil onto his face to prevent
himself being seen.
“I remember thinking I can’t just lie here, I need to get away, this is too
open,” he said of his decision to find cover. “While I was looking for
somewhere to go I was thinking who this could be? A rightwing extremist,
leftwing extremist, a coup d’etat, what it could be?”
Ane Kollen Evenmo, 17, revealed how she had mistaken Breivik for a policeman
and waved at him, drawing attention to the boat on which she and a group of
others had escaped, and drawing in a hail of bullets.
Some in the court were reportedly moved to tears by the testimony of Marius
Hoft, 18, as he described having to jump over several corpses to get to the
cliff face where he hid from the killer.
“I started crying but decided to wait with the tears until I was safe,” he
said. “I wanted to survive, and thought about my mother.”
The victims told prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh of their difficulties coming to
terms with what happened, with one girl revealing that she was still being
treated in an institution.
“Things are going OK,” said Gronnestad. “I react somewhat to loud sounds but
apart from that I have a full life.”
Ms Skoglund said she still felt guilty about the deaths of members of the
delegation she had led to the Labour party youth camp on the island.
“I was chairman in my county and I lost the three youngest ones,” she said.
But she ended with a message of defiance. “We won, he lost. Norwegian youths
can swim!”
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