Oslo
Mass murderer pleads not guilty: Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-immigrant extremist who has admitted to killing 77 people in an urban bombing and a rampage at a left-wing youth camp in Norway in July, appeared at his first public court hearing this week to plead not guilty, apparently on the grounds that he is a warrior. “I am a military commander in the Norwegian resistance movement,” he said. “And a Knight Chief Justice in the Knights Templar Norway and Knights Templar Europe.” Breivik, 32, also said he did not recognize the jurisdiction of the court because the government has embraced multiculturalism. “He wasn’t as frightening,” Sondre Lindhagen Nilssen, a teenage survivor of the camp massacre who attended the hearing, told the Oslo Aftenposten. “I just saw a totally confused person who doesn’t have the faintest contact with reality.”
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