Oslo: Ten years after Anders Behring Breivik’s right-wing extremists carried out twin attacks in Norway, head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, who at that time was the State Prime Minister, warned that the hatred was “still present”.
The former Labor Prime Minister has distinguished himself by promising “more democracy” and “more humanity” in responding to the attack that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011.
Breivik first triggered a bomb above the building that accommodated the Prime Minister’s office, but Stoltenberg did not It was there at that time.
The explosion killed eight people and Breivik then continued the shooting in the summer camp for left-wing youth on Utoya Island, killing 69 others, most of them teenagers.
“Ten years ago, we met hatred with love,” said Stoltenberg in Thursday’s speech.
“But hatred is still there,” he added.
Stoltenberg noted that only this week the vandal was written “breivik right” at a warning to Benjamin Hermansen, who was killed by the Neo-Nazis in 2001 in what was billed as the “first racist crime” Norwegian.
He also raised an attack tried in a mosque near Oslo in 2019, and the threat was still received by Utoya survivors.
In 2012, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
The sentence can be extended without limits and extremists, now 42, is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Breivik blamed the victims because he fostered the multiculturalism he hated, and described his ideology in the 1,500 pages of anti-immigration manifesto.
“He grows in our environment, believes in the same God, and has the same skin color as the majority in this country.
He is one of us,” Stoltenberg said.
“But he is not one of us, who respects democracy.
He is one of them.
Who believes that they have the right to kill to achieve their political goals,” he added, said that “it doesn’t matter if they put myself on the right side or left from the political spectrum, call themselves Christians or Muslims.
“” They have similarities with each other than they have with us who follow democratic rules, “Stoltenberg emphasized.
Norway has planned several ceremonies in honor of 77 victims of bloody attacks in post-war history.