Norwegian far-right leaders told the court trying Anders Behring Breivik yesterday that the mass killer was right to fear his nation’s “planned annihilation” by Muslims, even if his method of combating it was wrong.
Breivik killed 77 people on July 22nd last – detonating a car bomb outside government headquarters and killing eight, then shooting 69 people, mostly teenagers, at the ruling Labour Party’s summer camp on Utoeya Island.
He said his victims deserved to die because they supported Muslim immigration.
“The constitution has been cancelled, we’re at war now,” Tore Tvedt, the founder of far-right group Vigrid, told the court.
“When they get their will, the Nordic race will be exterminated,” he said.
The court’s main task in the 10-week trial is to decide whether Breivik is sane and whether he should be sent to jail or a psychiatric institution. One court-appointed team of psychiatrists concluded he is psychotic, but a second team came to the opposite conclusion.