Norway

Remember the massacre in Norway

Five years after the terrorist attacks in Norway, the people still struggling with the aftermath of the trauma. The families of the 77 mostly young victims still suffer from the consequences.

Norway is the victim of the assassination is commemorating five years ago

It was the 22. In June 2011, as the legal Breivik began extremist Anders in Norwegian capital Oslo his actions. In the government quarter, he lit a bomb, eight people died. The delivery truck with the explosives the bomber had parked in front of the building in which the office of the then Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was. In common with many other people today, the NATO Secretary General stood in front of this building. To meet “people, the the 22. July experienced, and each other to offer consolation, which is good,” said the social Democrat.

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Young people read out the names of the 77 victims, whose life of the mass murderer wiped out. “It hurts so much to hear the list with the name,” said the head of the youth organization of the social democratic and labour party (ON),Mani Hussaini. “It is, as the list would never end.” It was mainly members of the TO, were killed while they attended a summer camp on the island of Utøya. 69 people killed Breivik, after he was driving from Oslo from there.

Candle in heart shape

“The outer tracks of the terrorist attacks are still visible, but the worst are the marks of the attacks in our hearts as a people,” said the acting Prime Minister, Erna Solberg at the memorial ceremony. The time would not heal all wounds. In the Oslo Cathedral in a service of worship was held in the port. There are 77 candles in the shape of a heart were lit to commemorate the victims.

Also crown Prince Haakon and crown Princess Mette-Marit laid down to commemorate the victims of wreaths

In the afternoon imaginary survivors of the victims of the dead on Utøya. At the Ceremony, which began with a minute of silence, Prime Minister Erna Solberg and crown Prince Haakon. They set down together with relatives, wreaths and red roses. At the ferry dock in front of the main house of the island’s young people read again the names of those Killed. On the island there is a memorial with the names of those Killed on the 69 victims. It is also about killing a former Café building, in the Breivik 13 people, a training centre that was opened for the fifth anniversary of the attacks. There young people about the events of the 22. July and inform about topics such as extremism can discuss.

“The Miss is noticeable”

“Many of us have an empty chair at the dining table. There are many surviving young people among us that have experienced the biggest nightmare of your life,” said Lisbeth Kristine Røyneland of the self-help group of survivors, who lost her 18-year-old daughter. “The grief and the Missing are still noticeable, because the company can look around us much faster to the front, as we are Concerned.” According to the self-help group, almost two-thirds of the mothers who have lost on Utøya, a child is not, or only partially able to work, yet again.

Breivik was sentenced to a year after the attacks to 21 years in prison followed by preventive detention. As a motive he gave to Norway against Islam and “cultural maxismus” to defend.