![]() ![]() “Of course in Norway, as everywhere else, online activity has grown over these 10 years,” he said. “The continued presence of far-right views online, along with greater exposure to extremist content over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, is of particular concern.”Īccording to Ravndal, research indicates that within Norway the far right has not gained much appeal overall since the attacks and has been unable to turn out supporters in any numbers on the streets. “ underlines the need for greater action to target the dissemination of known extremist propaganda with clear links to violence on online platforms,” said David Ibsen, CEP executive director. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an NGO that combats extremist groups, said in a statement Thursday that survivors of Breivik’s attacks had voiced concern regarding his “status as an inspirational figure among far-right extremists.” Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik arrives in court on Apfor the start of his trial. Prosecutors alleged that he was a White nationalist who was plotting an attack. US Coast Guard officer Christopher Hasson, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison last year on weapons and drugs charges, consulted Breivik’s manifesto for tips on amassing weapons, according to another of the papers published by C-REX. Tarrant’s own manifesto is very different from Breivik’s, including in its politics, he added. “So even there, you can question how much of an impact Breivik had,” Ravndal said. The other obvious case is that of Brenton Tarrant, the Australian far-right terrorist who live-streamed an attack in which he killed 51 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019.īut although Tarrant claimed to have been inspired by Breivik, investigators found that he had started his planning some time before he read Breivik’s manifesto. “But he was also deeply inspired by many other figures,” Ravndal said, some of them school-shooters. The rampage was carried out on the fifth anniversary of the Norway attacks and the attacker had been “talking a lot about Breivik,” Ravndal said. ![]() One of the more apparent links is to the shooting attack in Munich, Germany on July 22, 2016, in which an 18-year-old German-Iranian man killed nine people. ![]() “At the same time, we must acknowledge that we as a society have not done nearly enough to see, to help, to carry the burden together - and to counteract the dark forces,” he added.īut it has also prompted questions about the wider impact of Breivik’s radical views on far-right extremism – circulated in a 1,500-page “manifesto” shortly before the attacks – and some soul-searching about how Norway deals with his legacy.įloral tributes lie outside Oslo Cathedral on Thursday on the 10-year anniversary of the Jterrorist attacks - commonly referred to in Norway as "22 Juli." Beate Oma Dahle/AP Days, which in different ways, have contributed to making us who we are today,” he said, according to Reuters. “Certain dates are written into our country’s story as defining days. Several commemorative events are taking place Thursday in the capital, Oslo, and on Utoya Island, where the attacks took place.Īt a televised memorial concert, King Harald said lessons could be learned. And Norway, led by then-Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, came together in a show of unity in the wake of the deadliest violence seen there since World War II.Ī decade on, the anniversary will be an occasion of great sadness for many in the country of just over 5 million people. Just over a year later, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum possible term. The July 22 attacks left Norway, a small, close-knit Nordic country, stunned and grieving. Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb attack and gun rampage. ![]()
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