Monday, April 23, 2012

Breivik trial: Phone delay 'caused more Breivik deaths'

Anders Behring Breivik called the police to surrender, but then
decided to carry on killing "till I die" when they failed to return
his call, he has told his trial in Oslo.
He said his plan was to kill as many people as possible.
But he said he had tried to spare some of the young people caught up
in the killings on Utoeya island who he thought were under 16.
Breivik has admitted the Oslo bombing and island shootings that killed 77.
The trial will decide whether he is sane. Furtherpsychiatric work has
been requested in the light of evidence he has given.
So far, two evaluations have been published, the first finding him
legally insane and the second saneenough to stand trial.
Breivik said he would do"anything to prevent" committal to a
psychiatric hospital.
Earlier, he said he had "lost absolutely everything" on 22 July 2011,
all his family and friends, therefore he understood the loss he
imposed on others.
But he said the killings were "a small barbarian actto prevent a
larger barbarian act".
In July last year, Breivik set off a car bomb near government
buildings in Oslo, killing eight, and thenmassacred 69 participants in
a Labour Party youth camp on the nearby island of Utoeya/

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