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Ten years later, Norway still haunted by the Utoya massacre

2021-07-21T14:47:37.932Z


Anders Breivik, the extremist who killed 77 people, is in prison… But his ideology is still not questioned.


This July 22, 2011, as for decades, Utoya hosted the summer camp of AUF, the League of Young Norwegian Labor.

Most of the 600 participants, teenagers or barely over their twenties, were there to learn politics, campaign and party.

Then Anders Breivik landed on the island, and it was hell.

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Methodically, for nearly an hour and a half, the far-right activist flushes out young people with automatic weapons.

Like a hunter.

In the name of the fight against multiculturalism, he kills sixty-nine people, surrenders to the police, and also claims the car bomb that just exploded a few hours earlier in front of the seat of government in Oslo, making eight other victims.

No national consensus

A decade later, several ceremonies are planned in the Norwegian capital and on the island of Utoya in the presence of the Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, and Astrid Hoem, current leader of the AUF, who survived the bullets of Breivik.

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Source: lefigaro

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