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On the 22nd July 2011, Norway would be struck by an unprecedented double attack. The brainchild of one just man, Anders Behring Breivik had spent years meticulously planning for his killer spree. Diagnosed at a young age as having psychological problems, the strain of his troubled family life would begin to show as he reached adulthood. The formerly well-regarded Breivik would retreat from all social life, and retreat into the world of online gaming and extreme politics. He became obsessed with the notion that Islam was a threat to Norway, and so Breivik planned to strike out at those he held responsible.   #documentary #truelives #serialkillerdocumentary #serial    Related Keywords:  Anders Behring Breivik where IS he now  Anders Behring Breivik manifesto  Anders Breivik 2024  Anders Breivik mother  Breivik release date  Anders Behring Breivik movies  Anders Breivik movie  Anders Breivik island  anders behring breivik documentary  Killing spree meaning lol  Killing spree Manhwa  killing spree (1987 full movie)  Killing spree game  Killing spree synonym  Killing Spree song  Killing spree tv show  Killing Spree WoW  Spree killer vs serial killer  Famous spree killers  Spree killers list  Spree killer definition FBI  Most famous spree killers  SPREE KILLER manga  Spree killer characteristics  Spree Killer movie  Serial Killer movies based on true stories on Netflix  Best true story serial killer movies  True story serial killer series  True story serial killer documentaries  True story serial killer movies 2021  Serial killer movies based on true stories 2023  Top 10 Serial Killer movies based on true stories on Netflix  Serial killer movies on Netflix

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00:00In 2011, during just one afternoon, Anders Breivik embarked on a murderous rampage that

00:08would send shockwaves around the globe.

00:10We all had the sensation that an act of war was really taking place.

00:15As the clock ticked, the body count rose.

00:17We had no idea if there was 15 people shooting, one person shooting.

00:22Death toll was just rising all the time.

00:25Now I was convinced I was dead.

00:28And with it the question, why had Breivik waged a three-and-a-half-hour war on his own

00:33innocent countrymen?

00:35It's like trying to understand Ted Bundy or Adolf Hitler.

00:40And committed history's deadliest killing spree.

00:43Who did this?

00:45Who is behind this?

00:46Where did the hatred come from?

00:58The 22nd of July, 2011, Norway, a Scandinavian country admired for its landscape, high living

01:22standards and for having one of the lowest murder rates in the world.

01:28In the capital city of Oslo, the day had begun like any other.

01:32The 22nd of July is in the middle of the main holiday in Norway, and of course the weather

01:39was pretty bad, as it always is.

01:43But it's still summer, so most of the people were actually at holiday.

01:48Pretty normal summer's day in Norway, actually.

01:51We were in the office, and it was quite a busy Friday.

01:57We were all looking forward to the weekend.

02:03At 3.18pm, a white van is captured on CCTV, parking next to Norway's government headquarters.

02:13Its driver is 32-year-old Anders Breivik, and cameras record him leaving the scene armed

02:19and dressed in police-style uniform.

02:23Minutes later, at 3.26pm, the country would be changed forever, as the world's worst

02:29kinning spree began.

02:54Joachim Ringstad, a local shop owner, would feel the ferocity of the explosion first-hand.

03:03I remember just being in the office, and suddenly there was just like a pressure wave, a big

03:11pressure wave that just kind of felt like it just blew through the whole building.

03:20There was debris and dust everywhere in the air.

03:24I thought the building would come down as well.

03:33Local businessman, Johan Tanberg, would be one of the first on the scene to witness the

03:38unfolding fallout.

03:40When the bomb exploded, I was underneath this building here in my car, driving.

03:45Actually, I was on my way home.

03:49I had to lay down on the floor in my car.

03:51I thought the ceiling was coming down.

03:53I was scared.

03:56It was a big air pressure through the tunnel.

04:00My car stopped, actually.

04:01I started again, and I drove out from the tunnel.

04:05Immediately when I got out from the tunnel, I saw this disaster that had occurred outside.

04:10I started to film maybe eight seconds after the blast, or the bomb went off.

04:15The massive deadly blast, killing eight, transformed Oslo from tranquil to terrifying.

04:35I thought it was a truck that had run into the building, or an earthquake.

04:41Everybody around me just froze.

04:43They didn't know what to do.

04:45I just ran out to see what was going on.

04:49When I got to the door, the second I got out, I saw glass falling down from the sky, so

04:54I couldn't run out.

04:56I saw people on the street.

04:57People were laying on the street.

04:59It was very quiet, I can remember.

05:01It was totally silent.

05:05The only thing I could hear was the alarm inside the buildings, the fire alarms.

05:16With authorities beginning to arrive, the scale of the task facing them quickly became apparent.

05:35It was...

05:37It was a great devastation on the spot.

05:40It was dead, hard damage.

06:05And I looked toward the center of the town, and there was smoke coming up where government

06:10buildings are.

06:12First thing I thought was, Norway was under attack.

06:24One building I went into, helped some people out.

06:28One building was so damaged, so I couldn't go into it.

06:32I was afraid it would fall down.

06:46It was a vacation.

06:47It was summer.

06:48It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

06:50Most of the people were not at work, thank God.

06:53So most of the offices were empty.

06:56The doors, the walls, everything was smashed in.

06:59So you couldn't see that it has been an office.

07:03People were really scared in town.

07:05For more bombs, or for who did it.

07:09The white van parked outside the government buildings had been packed with almost a ton

07:14of fertilizer-based explosives.

07:17Its detonation had left 8 dead, and more than 80 injured.

07:23We all had this sensation that an act of war was really taking place, and we were wondering

07:30who did this?

07:31Who is behind this?

07:33Where did the hatred come from?

07:44At 3.26pm, the 22nd of July, 2011, Norway's capital city of Oslo had been devastated by

07:52a massive car bomb.

07:56It was a day that Anders Breivik had been preparing for, for months.

08:01And the bombing was merely the beginning of his killing spree.

08:09The 13th of February, 1979, Oslo.

08:14Anders Breivik is born to a diplomat and a nurse.

08:19His childhood was marked by the divorce of his parents, and worrying behaviour that would

08:24draw the attention of the authorities at a very young age.

08:29He was under observation by a child psychiatrist when he was at the age of 3 or 4 years old.

08:36And they all gave him a quite serious diagnosis, that he was already a different psychiatric

08:43setup than normal kids.

08:47At the age of 4, Breivik was assessed by psychologists, because they became quite concerned about

08:53the home life his mother was bringing him up in.

08:56They thought that he'd been sexualised in school, that he'd been raped.

09:01The family unit would quickly begin to dissolve, leaving Anders in the care of his increasingly

09:06unstable mother, and isolated from his father.

09:10I think Breivik's father is present mostly in the form of his absence.

09:15You know, he was not there for Breivik.

09:18He thought that his mother had been sexually abused.

09:22He thought that she had been sexually abused.

09:25I think Breivik's father is present mostly in the form of his absence.

09:29You know, he was not there for Breivik.

09:32He certainly didn't have much of a family to live with.

09:37I would say he was of a neurotic background.

09:40He was an individual who was prone to outbursts or dramatic scenes and shows of largesse.

09:48As the dust began to settle in Oslo's city centre,

09:52the investigation had begun into who could be behind the atrocity.

09:57We received a lot of reports about the bombings in Jensdander.

10:01We received a lot of reports about explosions.

10:05And we received a lot of reports about suspicious people who had to be checked out.

10:11I actually thought about 9-11, something like that,

10:14because it was like a disaster area,

10:17because people were just walking around slowly.

10:20They were like zombies, in a sense.

10:24It was a violent and unreal picture.

10:28It's not what you expect to see in Oslo, not in Norway,

10:33and perhaps not in Scandinavia either.

10:36Oslo and Norway were completely unprepared for something like this,

10:40and pretty much taken with their pants down.

10:45One of the interesting things about Breivik's spree, of course,

10:48is that he bought himself extra time.

10:50For a while, the police were only taking calls about the bombing and nothing else.

11:12Pictures coming through to the police control room

11:15would offer the first crucial clues in their hunt for the perpetrator.

11:21We could tell where the perpetrator had gone,

11:27which car was parked on the outside,

11:31which had been blown up,

11:34and the registration number on it,

11:36so that all of that would be sent to those who were investigating at the police station.

11:43But the culprit was already one step ahead of the authorities,

11:47and what he had planned next would dwarf the carnage in the city

11:51and shock the entire world.

11:56Breivik was driving out of town when his bomb exploded.

12:02I think he enjoyed the deception.

12:04He was absolutely relishing the artistry of what he was doing.

12:09He was driving for about 40 minutes

12:12until he came to the nearby lake of Tyrrefjord.

12:18With confusion and tensions mounting across the country,

12:21Breivik would begin to execute the second stage of his plan.

12:26The island of Utøya was hosting a summer camp of young Labour Party activists,

12:31and Breivik was headed straight for them.

12:36He parked his car on the ferry crossings over to Utøya,

12:40and he presented himself as a security police officer

12:44there to instruct them about security measures that needed to be taken

12:49in light of the explosion that had just happened in Oslo.

12:52And they sent the ferry over to collect him.

12:56What would come next would be an act so sinister,

12:59it would strip a generation of its innocence.

13:07Located 50 minutes outside of Oslo,

13:09the picturesque island of Utøya is famed for its outstanding natural beauty.

13:16Utøya is actually like a whole Norway just placed

13:21within a couple of thousand square feet.

13:25Playing host to the annual summer camp for the youth division of the Labour Party,

13:29Utøya seemed a perfectly formed paradise.

13:34From air, it looks like a heart just dropped into the ocean.

13:39Every year we've been using the island for a big summer camp

13:43where we gather maybe 700 youth one week in July.

13:50I cannot explain it in any other word than a perfect summer camp.

13:58But this island idyll would soon be transformed

14:01into a nightmarish vision of violence by Anders Breivik.

14:06People were playing football, volleyball.

14:09Everything was just normal, perfect.

14:12Suddenly, the one who was running the island,

14:19we called her Mother Utøya,

14:23comes in with a look on her face that I've never seen before on anyone,

14:30and she said, something has exploded in Oslo.

14:35Of course we were shocked, and we saw pictures,

14:38and it was like seeing scenes from a city in a war.

14:44It was like someone switched the light off

14:47and took the breath out of everybody's lungs.

14:50It was no joy anymore.

14:54I remember walking up here, and my mother called me.

14:59She was worried something happened to me, and I said,

15:02No, nothing happened. I'm on Utøya.

15:05I wasn't in Oslo, and she should be just calm

15:10because I'm probably at the safest place in Norway right now.

15:16No one could have imagined that the man behind the bombing in Oslo

15:20had his sights set on the island of Utøya.

15:24Anders Breivik's position as an outsider had been defined at an early age.

15:30Breivik grew up in a very affluent part of town,

15:34but he had a single mother and an address

15:37which was not kind of on par with his classmates,

15:41and I think he felt rejected.

15:45Aged just 14, he had sought acceptance by joining a nationalist gang,

15:50but his natural demeanour set him apart from the other gang members.

15:55As I remember meeting this guy, he was probably on a party.

16:01I can kind of see him just sitting there,

16:06watching, trying to figure out how to blend in.

16:12However, there was one aspect of youth culture that Breivik did excel at,

16:16one which demonstrated his ability to prepare and execute a plan in extreme detail.

16:22He would also try to establish a reputation as a graffiti artist.

16:28So he was apparently, according to the people who knew him at the time,

16:34planning his graffiti raids like a general.

16:38Extremely good with the logistics, getting the number of cans and planning his missions.

16:42He was definitely searching to get some recognition, to be someone.

16:50As it happened all the time with him, he worked very hard for recognition,

16:56but he ended up being rejected also by these people.

17:00Breivik has certainly made reference to being isolated when he was younger and in his teens,

17:06but he's also showed adept skills at being a good listener.

17:10He's also showed adept skills at belonging when he needed to.

17:14So although he postures himself as being the outsider's outsider,

17:18as a narcissist he's also very capable of working on the inside when he needs to.

17:23Such capabilities would prove crucial in carrying out the second stage

17:28of a killing spree that has already seen eight dead.

17:30Some time later we received a report that the criminal was wearing a police uniform,

17:37that he was wearing a bulletproof helmet and that he had a weapon in his hand.

18:00After arriving in Utoja and claiming an obligation to keep Utoja's inhabitants safe from harm,

18:05Breivik was welcomed.

18:08They sent the ferry over to collect him and they carried his big suitcase with his ammunition.

18:16At 5.21 the first shots were fired, beginning what would be over an hour of unimaginable horror.

18:25The first thing he did was to go and ask for the guardsmen of the island to come with him

18:31and the woman who was the head of the camp and then he drew his pistol and he shot them both in the head.

18:40I could see people running and him shooting and I could see three people fall just right here.

18:55At 5.23 Anders Breivik approached the cafeteria, a building busy with youngsters.

19:03I was in the cafeteria and then I saw very many people that were running outside

19:09and I called them because there was no reason to run like they were doing

19:14and one of them told me that a guy was shooting them and I both took it serious

19:20because he had a very stressed voice but also I thought it was a joke.

19:26I thought maybe this was an act, I thought this day has been already so absurd it couldn't get any worse.

19:33I ran outside of the building and then there were already some people that were lying outside that were killed

19:40and then that was the moment that I understood that this was for real.

19:44As confusion spread amongst the campers, Breivik maintained a menacing calm.

19:50His singular purpose, the intention to kill.

19:55There was this girl approaching him from a distance, looked like a policeman

20:01and this man walked normally with a normal speed towards this girl

20:08and this girl was just walking normally towards him.

20:13He pulls up his gun that he held in his hand down by his thighs.

20:20He points it up at this girl, she stops and slowly started walking backwards.

20:28He continues with the same speed towards her

20:32and a series of rounds goes off and he shoots her down into the ground.

20:42There were around 500 young people gathered around the cafeteria and the campsite.

20:48It was like nothing, not even a single leaf or straw grass moved, everything just stood completely still

20:56and at the same time that girl hit the ground, it seemed like the ground just lifted itself up and started running away

21:06and that was all the people running.

21:10At 5.31, Breivik began working his way through the campsite towards the woods.

21:15Between the strings and the tents and the things lying around, chairs, it was like an obstacle course.

21:26This was an obstacle course where if you fall, you would die actually.

21:35The gunman had already shot and killed 21.

21:39As he made his way through the woods towards the southern tip of the island,

21:43he would take 15 more lives.

21:46I just ran and then I came to the sea so there was no place to run anymore and then I just hide in the grass.

21:56You could hear the trees crunching from the bullets that were fired away.

22:03You can also see bullet holes.

22:06We heard a lot of shooting.

22:08We heard a lot of shooting.

22:11So at the time we heard shooting, it was of course terrible because we knew what was happening.

22:17Even though I never prepared for this and never prepared for running for my life or being attacked like this,

22:25it's also quite impressive how the body reacts and the only thing the mind is set on is to survive.

22:34Before you even start to think about something, your body and your mind has already done it.

22:43Before you realise you have to run, you're already there.

22:48Before you start to think swim, you're already in the water.

22:53Rumours of the atrocities unfolding on Utøya began to circulate across Norway.

22:59Journalist Marius Andersen would be dispatched in a helicopter to investigate.

23:04When we approached Utøya, the weather was really, really bad.

23:08It's raining from kind of all directions and you have to go in pretty low,

23:12like as low as possible without breaking any laws.

23:15And I just told my pilot to start circling the island.

23:18I need an overview, I need overview pictures, I need to understand what's going on because I had no idea.

23:23For many on the island, the only option was to swim for their lives.

23:28Leaving my cell phone behind and my wallet in my pocket so I could be identified,

23:35we started swimming.

23:37I started seeing people in the water.

23:40And the strange thing about your mind is that you don't expect people to be swimming away from an island, like scared.

23:49This was a summer camp in my head and my head told me, oh, they're taking a swim.

23:54And it takes like a second and you're, no, they're not taking a swim.

23:58And I was like, oh my God.

24:00It was a summer camp in my head and my head told me, oh, they're taking a swim.

24:04And it takes like a second and you're, no, they're not swimming.

24:08They're not bathing, they're swimming away from the island.

24:11I couldn't breathe. So after 50, maybe 100 meters, I turned back.

24:17I realized this was going to be too far.

24:20And I also realized that I was probably going to drown.

24:25At that time we started to realize that this is a process that goes over time

24:28because it doesn't really add up. Your head doesn't really want to believe it.

24:34You think, okay, it's reported shooting.

24:37It might be someone playing with fireworks on one side of the scale and on the other side of the scale.

24:41It might be a mass murderer, but that's highly unlikely.

24:47I remember water level was probably around my hip or thighs somewhere.

24:55Standing, coughing.

24:58There was no one around me.

25:01So I thought that there was.

25:04And suddenly the same man that I saw earlier comes out of the woods just right next to me.

25:11Eight, maybe 10 meters away.

25:15And starts screaming that.

25:23That I'm going to kill you.

25:25And you must all die today.

25:28At 3.26 p.m. on the 22nd of July, 2011, the Norwegian capital of Oslo was devastated by a massive car bomb.

25:46Eight would die and more than 80 would be injured.

25:50Nearly two hours later, a new horror had begun 25 miles away,

25:55when a gunman began running amok on Utoja, a small island packed with young people attending a left-wing Labour Party camp.

26:05Journalist Marius Andersen was in a helicopter above the island, but was as confused as the people on the ground.

26:13At that point, we had no idea what was going on.

26:16At that point, we had no idea if there was 15 people shooting, one person shooting.

26:21We didn't know that there was one guy dressed as a cop.

26:24But I remember I saw a big, tall character, which I then thought, OK, that might be police.

26:32The gunman, dressed as a police officer, was 32-year-old Anders Breivik,

26:37and he had already taken the lives of 36 people on the island.

26:41At 5.40pm, he began shooting at the youngsters in the water.

26:47He started shooting into the water after the people that were swimming,

26:52and when you saw the columns of water that were rising from the bullets,

26:57you realised this is happening for real.

27:00And after he finished shooting, he turned around towards me,

27:06and after he finished shooting, he turned around towards me and aims at me.

27:14You could see into the barrel.

27:17I don't know why I screamed, but I did, but I screamed that,

27:21no, don't shoot me.

27:24In the blink of an eye, he pulls down his rifle, turns around and walks away.

27:31Later, Breivik would claim that he hadn't shot Adrian at that moment

27:36because he looked right-wing in appearance.

27:43When he was 27 years old, Breivik had left his shared flat

27:47and began detaching himself from the world.

27:50He moved into his mother's apartment and began immersing himself

27:55in a world of online gaming and extremist internet sites.

27:59He was isolated, living with his mother, staying mostly in his room,

28:05playing computer games almost incessantly, visiting extremist websites.

28:10He also started to behave rather oddly.

28:16He would be sometimes very angry with his mother,

28:21and when she was ill, he would use a face mask to avoid contamination

28:26somehow, and he would go around in the apartment

28:32dressed up in some of these uniforms that he purchased.

28:35It was really props for this character he was building for himself.

28:41Friends would notice a change in the anti-Islamist,

28:45describing him as increasingly withdrawn and reclusive.

28:49Many spree killers have undergone a period of social withdrawal

28:53and social isolation in the few months before they engage in their lethal attack.

28:59It could be that while Breivik was in his period of isolation,

29:03he began focusing more and more on his spree as the only solution,

29:07but it could also have been a very canny way for him to go off the grid.

29:11Years later, he would turn his violent video gaming into reality.

29:176.08pm, the 22nd of July, Bitoya Island.

29:23Anders Breivik had already taken the lives of 49 people.

29:36With police occupied by events in Oslo, local residents took to the water in boats

29:42in a bid to begin a relief effort.

29:44Plucking those that had chosen to swim to safety from the freezing lake.

29:49One of those residents was local hotel worker Viggo Larsen.

30:14I slid slowly against what I first thought was a T-shirt,

30:20but it was a man who lay on his stomach in the lake and was dead.

30:27The local police dispatched officers to the island.

30:31Norway's specialist counter-terrorism unit, Delta Force, would also be called into action.

30:38I called the police several times and they said they were on their way,

30:42but it took more than one hour, so we were completely helpless.

30:51At around 6.10pm, a large group of youngsters were at the pump house

30:56when a police officer arrived and informed them that the culprit had been caught.

31:01As they gathered together, he opened fire.

31:05It was Breivik, and 14 would die at that moment.

31:10The really striking aspect about the massacre on Utøya is how calm Breivik was,

31:17how methodical he was, and how careful he was.

31:21One of the common mistakes that journalists and media reports make,

31:25particularly in the immediate aftermath of a spree,

31:28is they believe that the killer was crazed, deranged and shooting victims at random.

31:34We certainly see time and time again in spree killers

31:37that they are focused and calm and very much in control of both their emotions and the situation.

31:44For Adrian and those still trapped on the island, the terror would continue.

31:50I was there all alone. I thought maybe lightning wouldn't hit the same place two times, but it did.

31:56And then suddenly a group of people arrived.

32:01You could hear someone whispering, he's coming.

32:07By 6.30pm, Breivik had circled the island and returned to the southern tip, where he began shooting again.

32:15The moment was captured from the circling helicopter.

32:21And the first shot was so loud.

32:29Before I even could open my eyes, I felt something warm next to my head.

32:35It felt like my head exploded.

32:40Now I was convinced I was dead.

32:43Adrian had been wounded in the shoulder. Five of those around him would die.

32:50From what I know, the last bullet that was fired here,

32:56was the bullet that hit me in the shoulder and still is there.

33:00He was captured one minute and twenty seconds after the last shot.

33:12After an hour and nine minutes of unchecked bloodshed,

33:17Delta Force would arrive on the shores of Utoja to face down Anders Breivik.

33:22The last thing that we were actually able to see was the police

33:26walking in tactical formations like terrorist cops do and checking out stuff.

33:33Then, the man responsible for a massacre would surrender without a fight.

33:39Breivik's spree was certainly different from many other sprees that have gone before it.

33:44Predominantly, spree killers either kill themselves or they are killed by law enforcement.

33:49Clearly, Breivik wanted to be taken alive so he could give his ideological views

33:53a platform.

34:03Although the violence may have been over, for those survivors left on Utoja,

34:08the trauma would continue.

34:12I was rescued by the police and they took me away and I was taken by a private boat.

34:17But when we came to the hotel where everybody was gathered, all those who survived,

34:24I immediately understood that the numbers of the killed would be extremely high.

34:30I would like to say anything happened so fast, but actually it didn't.

34:34It happened very slowly.

34:37It seemed like we were trapped here forever.

34:40And some part of me probably still is.

34:43In one afternoon, Anders Breivik had claimed the lives of 77 of his countrymen,

34:498 in Oslo and 69 on Utoja island.

34:54He claimed to have committed the massacre as a political act.

35:06Several months prior to the attacks, the reclusive right-winger had moved to a village

35:12from his mother's Oslo flat to an isolated farm two hours north.

35:17All the while, he kept a diary of his preparations.

35:21These would form a significant part of a large manifesto, one that he intended to publish.

35:29He played a very savvy game of taking lots of media-friendly pictures of himself,

35:35posturing with guns, posturing in uniforms, looking very Aryan on some occasions,

35:39showing his blue eyes and his blonde hair.

35:42He saw himself as being suitable for breeding,

35:46almost like a stud for future generations of the Aryan race.

35:50So he's clearly a very narcissistic individual

35:53who knows how to sell the image of what he was trying to pass on.

35:57Under the guise of becoming a vegetable farmer,

36:00Breivik would use his seclusion to his advantage,

36:03gathering ammunition and planning his attack.

36:06This is when he researched and planned and got there with all of his equipment

36:12and started manufacturing his bomb.

36:16On the 21st of July 2011, the day before his killing spree,

36:21Breivik completed a final recce in Oslo city centre

36:25before returning to the farm one last time.

36:37He was picked up at Rhena station by taxi driver Arald Tangen.

36:42I meet Breivik in the train station

36:46and he stands there and wants a taxi, so I ask him if I may be able to drive him home.

36:53The farm is about 12 kilometres from Rhena centre.

36:58Big farms with a lot of space.

37:00He had the place to do what he was going to do.

37:06Breivik has claimed that he spent 11 months preparing for his spree and bomb attacks.

37:13He clearly knew what he was doing and he knew the best way to go about it.

37:17He could effectively disappear while he ordered the parts

37:21and stockpiled the weapons and bomb making equipment that he would need.

37:25After I drove him home, he went out of the car

37:30and he just stood in the middle of the courtyard.

37:34When I let him out, he was just standing there with his briefcase.

37:39I think, why don't you go in or do something?

37:43But he just stayed there, so I took my time just to see him.

37:46I had never been down to the farm before.

37:49He had no intention to go inside the house because he was in a hurry.

37:52Breivik would wait for the taxi to leave before driving back to Oslo.

37:58At 2.09pm, Breivik would make his motivations public,

38:03sending out his 1500 plus page manifesto to supposed sympathisers across Europe.

38:09Just over an hour later, his killing spree, the deadliest in world history, would begin.

38:23But what had driven Anders Breivik to commit such an unimaginable crime?

38:38On 22nd July 2011, Norway had changed forever.

38:44Anders Breivik's attacks in Oslo and on Utoja had left a nation in mourning.

38:49It is sometimes easy just to talk about the number, about the attack,

38:54but these were 77 individuals that are no longer with us.

38:59Most of them were very young, the youngest was 14.

39:03The majority were below 18, so that is what 22nd July is about,

39:09it's those who lost their lives.

39:20I didn't feel anger, I just felt sorrow, I felt sorry for the whole situation.

39:26This guy I didn't feel sorry for, but all the people that he hurt

39:31and all the families that he destroyed, I just wish him dead.

39:39In court, Breivik would attempt to use his trial as a platform to promote his twisted ideology.

39:45It seemed like the court was kind of a theatre for him.

39:49What the whole trial was about for him was to get recognition as a political terrorist,

39:57as an extremist, as a militant, and not to be somehow written off as crazy.

40:04That picture of Breivik giving the fisted salute probably did as much for his PR

40:10as his 1500 page manifesto did.

40:12And again, that is one of the legacies of Breivik's murders,

40:16is that he's been allowed to live and allowed to publicise his deranged beliefs.

40:22Anders Behring Breivik would be found guilty of the murders of 77,

40:27eight losing their lives in Oslo, and 69 on the island of Etoja.

40:32He would receive a 21 year sentence, the maximum possible under Norwegian law.

40:37A question that's still puzzled, however,

40:40was what could have caused this man to commit such chilling crimes.

40:46To try to understand people like this, I don't think it's possible.

40:52It's like trying to understand Ted Bundy or Adolf Hitler. It's impossible.

41:01That's, I guess, the question I'd like to ask.

41:03How can one person do this? How can you be able to do it as a human being?

41:09The core, the essence of the hatred of Breivik stems from child abuse

41:15and was somehow refined over the years.

41:20Breivik wasn't mentally ill, but there is evidence to suggest

41:24he was either a paranoid personality type, or indeed,

41:28he was more likely to commit suicide.

41:31If you think about, you know, could he have been stopped earlier,

41:35it's that the one time he was really within the system,

41:39when somehow the Norwegian state authority recognised there was something wrong,

41:45was at the time when he was really young, when he was three or four years old,

41:49but the system let him go.

41:55For Adolf Hitler, this was a very difficult time.

41:59For Adrian Preikon, the court case had answered a disturbing question.

42:05It doesn't make any sense for me, and I don't know why I'm alive.

42:11How can I be this lucky?

42:13Many spree killings, we see some victims are shot, others are allowed to live.

42:19At Columbine, in Hungerford, and again in Utah with Breivik,

42:23we see some victims are toyed with,

42:24and they're allowed to survive on the whim of the offender.

42:28He explained in court, after a week, that he remembered why he spared me.

42:36And he said I looked like one of his right-wing extremists.

42:47I didn't look like a Marxist.

42:50And he thought that I should stay alive.

42:52Despite Breivik having taken aim at his own people,

42:56and striking at their very heart,

42:59their refusal to be cowed by their attacker stands strong.

43:04One minute we are falling because someone is shooting after us,

43:11and a couple of days later we are all standing in the streets

43:15with our roses and torches and rising again.

43:19And I believe that's the best experience a country can have with themselves,

43:25to fall and rise together.

43:29Although the innocence of Vitoia may have been lost on the 22nd of July,

43:34its beauty will remain.

43:39It affected Norway in a way that Norway is not so small and safe anymore.

43:46My daily life is like before, but of course it changed Norway,

43:53and it changed me as a person.

43:56It's hard to let go, but I still think about what happened to Vitoia,

44:03even two years later.

44:06For Adrian Preikån, the experience of that day may have been harrowing,

44:11but his bond with the people that travelled there,

44:13that fateful summer, has survived.

44:17I still say it, and the closest people around me also say it,

44:24that I never returned home from Vitoia.

44:28And that's because a part of me is still struggling out there.

44:43VITOIA

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