Norway

Norway commemorates terror victims of Oslo and Utoya

Five years ago, the right-wing extremist Anders Breivik of 77 people have fallen victim to. In Oslo, young people read out the names of those Killed. Later, survivors want to remember on the island of Utoya to the dead.

Wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of Oslo and Utoya.

For the families of the present day is painful. In Norway it is to the victims of the attacks by Anders Breivik on 22. July 2011 recalled. To the official ceremony in the government quarter of the capital Oslo, and citizens, in addition to the members, the Norwegian crown Prince couple, as well as the former Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, the current Prime Minister, Erna Solberg.

“A heavy day”

The head of government said, “this is a sad, and always a hard day. For those who have lost someone, were five years of nothing“. In the Oslo Cathedral in a service to honor the victims took place. Young people lease the names of the 77 victims.

In the Oslo government district at the time, eight people had been killed, as the law of Breivik’s extremist detonated a bomb. The traces are still visible. The delivery truck with the explosives Breivik had parked in front of the building, which also houses the office of the then social democratic Prime Minister Stoltenberg was. Together with other state-of-the current Secretary General of Nato back in front of this building. To meet “people, the the 22. July experienced, to give each other comfort, that’s good,” said Stoltenberg.

After the attack in Oslo, Breivik had shot 69 people on the island of Utoya. There were mainly teenagers, attending a summer camp of the labour party. The youngest victim was 14 years old. In the afternoon there will be another commemorative event.

Hatred for a world that is open to the Norway

In August 2012, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison followed by preventive detention. His deeds, he reasoned with hatred against the Islam and a multi-cultural society.

pv/sc (dpa, epd)