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Anders Breivik's Attack- The Planning And Prison Life

Anders Breivik killed 77 people in order to publicize his Islamophobic ideology.

By Rare StoriesPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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The site the bomb exploded and Anders.

Anders Breivik is a Norwegian domestic terrorist who carried out the 2011 Norway attacks on July 22, 2011. On that day, he killed eight people with a van bomb and then killed 69 people in a mass shooting.

Anders Breivik's Early Life

Breivik was born on February 13, 1979, in Oslo, Norway's most populous city. He was born to Wenche Behring, a nurse who died of cancer in 2013, and Jens David Breivik, a civil economist who had a job as a diplomat for the Norwegian Embassy in London and worked in Paris.

He lived in London for the first year of his life, until his parents split when he was a year old.

Breivik began using anabolic steroids in his adolescence and spent his free time in the gym. He was very concerned with his own appearance, and even had cosmetic surgery according to reports.

Ander Breivik Plans For His Terrorist Attack

Breivik started a nine-year plan to finance the 2011 attack in 2002, when he was just 23. He founded his own computer programming firm while working at a customer service company.

His company grew to six people and had "many offshore bank accounts." He made his first million kroner (approximately one hundred thousand USD). The reason he craved success was to have enough money to finance his evil plan of terrorism.

The farm he used as a cover.

In May 2009, he launched "Breivik Geofarm," defined as a farming sole proprietorship set to grow vegetables, melons, roots, and tubers. Breivik utilized the company as a cover to purchase massive quantities of artificial fertilizer and other chemicals for the production of explosives.

The Deadly Attack

Breivik emailed a manifesto titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence on the day of the attacks, expressing his militant ideas. The email was sent to more than 1000 email addresses he had gathered on Facebook.

In them, he expressed his hatred for Islam. The text demanded that all Muslims in Europe be deported. According to Breivik, the major reason for the attacks was to publicize his ideology.

The site of the explosion that killed 8 people

On July 22, 2011, Breivik detonated a fertilizer bomb outside Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office in Oslo, killing eight people.

Within a few hours of the explosion, he traveled to Utya island, the site of a Worker's Youth League camp, disguised as a police officer to ride the ferry to the island, and then fired intermittently for more than an hour, killing 69 people.

When the police arrived on the island and , he surrendered without a fight. Following his capture, he was kept on the island and probed all night.

Following his capture, he was kept on the island and probed all night

Breivik confessed to the crimes and stated that the attack was carried out to defend Norway and Western Europe from a Muslim takeover.

Trial And Sentencing

Breivik's criminal trial began on April 16, 2012, in Oslo Courthouse.

On August 24, 2012, Breivik was found sane and sentenced to containment, a particular type of prison sentence that can be prolonged indefinitely, with an approximate period of 21 years and a minimum time of 10 years, this is Norway's maximum prison sentence.

His Life In Prison

Breivik penned a 27-page letter to prison authorities in November 2012, complaining about the security constraints he was subjected to and saying that the prison director personally wanted to punish him.

He said guards interfered with his strictly-planned daily schedule, and his cell was poorly decorated with no view. He also complained about his reading lamp which he said was inadequate.

Anders Breivik occupies three cells - for living, study and exercise - and can walk in a yard at his leisure. He has his own television and PlayStation.

He also said guards watched him while he brushed his teeth and shaved, and put indirect mental pressure on him to finish quickly by tapping their feet while waiting; and that he was "not having candy" and was served cold coffee.

In letters to foreign media outlets, he described his demands to prison authorities (in 2013), which included better communication with the outside world and a PlayStation 3 to replace the PlayStation 2 in his cell. In 2014, he threatened to starve himself to death if he was denied access to a sofa and a bigger gym.

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