Mass killer Anders Breivik could have been stopped earlier and the authorities "failed" to protect the 69 young people killed on Utoya Island, according to an official report.
An independent inquiry into the shootings last July has found both the attack on the government complex "could have been prevented" and Breivik could have been "stopped earlier."
"Faster police action was actually possible. The perpetrator could have been stopped earlier on 22 July," it says.
Anders Breivik could have been stopped earlier, a report has said
The right-wing extremist placed a bomb in a square in Oslo before heading to the Utoya teenage activist island camp, where he then executed 69 people as they fled.
Breivik, who admits killing 77 people, many of them teenagers, is currently awaiting the outcome of a trial to determine his sanity.
Breivik, who is militantly anti-Islamic, insists that he is sane and says his killings were politically motivated.
In the commission's report, which will be presented to Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, they warn the country to prepare better.
"22 July was chaotic, dramatic and confusing, and great uncertainty prevailed. Crisis management implies demanding decision-making situations. When time is of the essence and many things are happening at the same time, one is rarely better than one's preparations."
The verdict on Breivik should be delivered on 24 August.
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Mass killer Anders Breivik could have been stopped earlier and the authorities "failed" to protect the 69 young people killed on Utoya Island, according to an official report.
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There was no way that Breivik could execute anyone - he had no legitimate authority. When you mean murder, say murder - otherwise give up pretending to be any sort of writer
PGU: There was no way that Breivik could execute anyone -
If there is an answer, it may be that the Policmen at the scene were frightend to act in case it is they that finish up in the dock, I don't know too much about Norwegian law, but if it's anything like ours, we have to give the murderer every chance to kill as many as he likes, other wise we will be accused of infringing his human rights, in my opinion any person that shoots a gun at another person has forfieted all of his human rights there and then, they should be taken out asap, this will also save us a lot of money paying for a trial and sending them to stay in a holiday camp, Ooops I mean prison.
Its the same the world over;
The police could have; the police should have; the police had admitted their mistakes, just for once Police, social servises etc get it right first time like the rest f us have to do in our everyday mundane lives. We all dont get second and third chances, especially where peoples lives are at risk. Before the complaints start I know there are many, many good coppers out their, but we only hear about the errors.
Fozwords: Its the same the world over; The police could have;
Like most of these kind of enquiries they are made weeks after the events by people sitting in offices with the benefit of hindsight and without ever having done the job themselves. The Norwegian Police are being castigated because they couldn't guess the exact time and place a raving lunatic decided to plant a bomb and because they didn't have dozens of heavily armed, waterbourne police patrolling the dozens of islands in the area just in case a determined killer, armed to the teeth got it into his head that he would attack hundreds of people trapped on an island.
The Norwegian people in my experience are peaceful, law abiding and friendly people who would not wish to live in a police state. The police and other authorities no doubt did their absolute best in an impossible situation.
Marky_H: Like most of these kind of enquiries they are made
Sorry he did more than express his views in a terrible way he killed innocent people.And we in Europe and other parts of the West have had multiculturalism for centuries.
Welsh_woman: Sorry he did more than express his views in a
...could've, would've, shoud've? It seems pointless to speculate on whether the Norwegian police might have apprehended him sooner. In a country unaccustomed to such incidents, I don't think it is very surprising that the police were caught completely off guard by this.
MolliBlum: ...could've, would've, shoud've? It seems pointless to speculate on whether
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The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 13/08/2012 15:45 Updated: 14/08/2012 08:58