Live link: Anders Behring Breivik trial, day four
Today they "will focus on the events leading up to 22 July last year and the bomb in the government quarter of Oslo."
While I was waiting for it I read the father's story. Anders is the son of his father's second wife (the father is currently married to no 4). The marriage only lasted until a year after Anders was born and then the mother left. Apparently it's very easy for women to be single mothers in Norway and that's what his father thought his second wife actually wanted. And then when Anders was four, it was found that his mother was emotionally harming him, but that wasn't enough for his father to be able to gain custody.
UPDATE 9:22am This post was linked to a live update page of the trial last night between 7pm and 2am NZ time. Strangely enough, there seems to be a delay of an hour as 8am Oslo time should be 6pm our time.
Today they "will focus on the events leading up to 22 July last year and the bomb in the government quarter of Oslo."
While I was waiting for it I read the father's story. Anders is the son of his father's second wife (the father is currently married to no 4). The marriage only lasted until a year after Anders was born and then the mother left. Apparently it's very easy for women to be single mothers in Norway and that's what his father thought his second wife actually wanted. And then when Anders was four, it was found that his mother was emotionally harming him, but that wasn't enough for his father to be able to gain custody.
UPDATE 9:22am This post was linked to a live update page of the trial last night between 7pm and 2am NZ time. Strangely enough, there seems to be a delay of an hour as 8am Oslo time should be 6pm our time.
Has it struck anyone else how like to Lionel Terry this Norwegian killer. Terry thought his civilization was threatened by foreigners so killed an elderly Chinese man to make his point then turned himself in to the Police. He spent the rest of his life in a mental asylum. That, of course, is what Breivik fears because it would rob him of some pretended credibility.
ReplyDeleteJG, good point.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he's mad, he's just evil. He justifies it of course, but in the end, that's what he is.