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Anders Breivik Trial: Shoe Thrown At Mass Killer By Victim's Brother

Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 11/05/2012 11:26 Updated: 11/05/2012 11:40

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A shoe was thrown at Norwegian mass-killer Anders Breivik by the brother of one of his victims at his trial on Friday.

"You killed my brother! Go to hell!" shouted the man from the Oslo courtroom, a few meters from the defendant, reports said.

The shoe apparently missed Breivik and hit his lawyer. The trial was interrupted by the incident, and was scheduled to resume on Friday afternoon.

The BBC reported "spontaneous applause" after the incident from any of those in the courtroom.

Breivik has admitted killing eight people in a bomb attack on Oslo, and shooting dead 69 others including many children at a political youth camp on Utoya island, on 22 July 2011.

The 33-year-old denies his is criminally responsible for the killings, and said the political camp was a fair target because of the country's Labour Party's multicultural policies.

It is thought that the trial is centred on whether he will be legally declared insane, as it will determine if he is sent to prison for a maximum of 21 years or a psychiatric institution.

The court has been hearing from survivors of the attacks on Utoya, with many members of the public and victims' families left in tears by the testimony.

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A shoe was thrown at Norwegian mass-killer Anders Breivik by the brother of one of his victims at his trial on Friday. "You killed my brother! Go to hell!" shouted the man from the Oslo courtroom, ...
A shoe was thrown at Norwegian mass-killer Anders Breivik by the brother of one of his victims at his trial on Friday. "You killed my brother! Go to hell!" shouted the man from the Oslo courtroom, ...
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Fair Dues
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11:55 on 12/05/2012
Should have been a grenade - only too many people would have been hurt by that!
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wanny
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11:49 on 12/05/2012
Show him the same amount of mercy....Hang Him !
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vindi boy
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11:19 on 12/05/2012
No one in their right mind would be anything but devastated by this man's action. But multicultalism doesn't work. Why do you think our ex commonwealth chucked us out?
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Clarks0n
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18:16 on 15/05/2012
That is the problem, he may have done more harm than good for the cause since now if you rightly oppose multiculturalism people are quick to draw comparisons with Breivik. Its the same with a few idiot members of the BNP making its policies and concern seem less important.
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rabidrightwatch
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10:55 on 12/05/2012
Considering that this is the first (publicised) representation of anger, then Breivik has come off very lightly indeed...

Although to throw a shoe at someone (remember the journalist who throw a shoe at George Bush to show his absolute disbelief & disgust at this utterings..??) has perhaps been adopted in the West as a peaceful way of displaying disgust and serious annoyance?

Up until now, the Norwegians have shown remarkable (and predictable) restraint in their display of public anger, and they are still very much against state-sponsored revenge killing, even for such a heinous crime as perpetrated by Breivik on his own countrymen and women.

Another indication of their level of civilisation and continuous self-analysis, which many could learn from and emulate.

Even faced with this most heinous of crimes, there's no general call for righteous retribution in Norway ; merely that he be tried in accordance with their law, and that he is sentenced appropriately in accordance with their law.

This man is not mad; he's calculating and actually believes in his warped sense of reality & purpose.
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Clarks0n
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18:09 on 15/05/2012
The Norwegians could be showing 'restraint' because they are in silent support. Apparently the situation there regarding immigration and islamification is worse than the UK.
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wotever
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08:52 on 12/05/2012
Put him in a cell with Abu Qatada those 2 would be great company for a very short while......
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oliverdavid
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08:41 on 12/05/2012
I was surprised to read this as the Norwegians I worked with were so laid-back. If this evil waste of space had killed anyone I knew I could not have sat and looked at him for one second - otherwise he would have received something more dangerous than a shoe.
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Blindstu
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07:19 on 12/05/2012
It seems to me that the middle eastern culture of shoe throwing has also found it's way into Europe. Could be Anders Breivik is right when he says that Muslim culture is slowly dominating his country. However, that doesn't mean that the method he chose to fight against it was right.
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fuzzychickens
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00:41 on 12/05/2012
Omg, a shoe?

Seriously, the guy is evil, but not as evil as Bush.

Save your shoes for members of the Bush family, this guy is small potatoes.
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Craigzz
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00:24 on 12/05/2012
This guy was no martyr for the west, he was pure coward, and that is ALL he will ever be remembered as.
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robphilnz
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22:36 on 11/05/2012
It's his views which are insane - not the man himself. He carefully and rationally selected his "facts" to formulate those insane views.
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gisburne
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23:04 on 11/05/2012
You've got that exactly the wrong way round.
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mikolos1
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23:33 on 11/05/2012
Yes! Somebody else knows exactly where he is coming from. He was completely wrong doing this, but it is about time the western world woke up to what's going on.
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rabidrightwatch
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14:27 on 12/05/2012
You've got exactly the right way round... good comment... not insane, merely warped and in an alternate reality...
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gumpo
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22:13 on 11/05/2012
Well I suppose if the shoe didn't hit him, at least it hit the next best thing.....his Lawyer !!
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mfosb
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21:49 on 11/05/2012
The guy who threw the shoe came straight from Iraq. Norwegians usually dont show contempt or sorrow like that. But kind of weird they do not do it at all tho. Maybe they dont wanna be out of line, if there are others who are more inflicted who do not want to act agressive, the others feel they are acting out of line if THEY are - kind of the norwegian way of beeing polite, by beeing quiet. or could be a fear of getting famous/media search light on behalf of other victims.
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robphilnz
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22:39 on 11/05/2012
Breivik would mentally feast on any drama or aggression towards him, because he would see it as confirmation of his "intelligence" and of the righteousness of his actions.
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Norman Mitchison
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21:49 on 11/05/2012
As it hit his lawyer no harm was done, but pity it wasn`t a brick....
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trevar
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19:34 on 11/05/2012
this fellow is quite intellegent, I would prefer execution myself than spend those years in prison, but, like I say this guy is very clever , why did he snap, because of the government,like all the governments around the world
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mfosb
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21:57 on 11/05/2012
intelligent, yes, clever no. He is a sad mix of narscissism, high IQ, bad parenting(due to feeling unsafe after divorce where the super strict narscisstic father leaved him) , radical ideas without real life correction. etc etc.
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trevar
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18:59 on 11/05/2012
hello
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