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Restrained by a harness, Anders Behring Breivik reconstructed his actions for police in a secret daylong trip back to the crime scene where he killed 69 people at Utoya island near Oslo.
The 32-year-old Breivik described the shootings in close detail during an eight-hour tour on the island with up to a dozen police, prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told a news conference in Oslo.
Trond Solberg / VG - Scanpix Norway via SIPA
Under heavily armored police guard, Anders Behring Breivik (left, in red T-shirt) returns to Utoya island on August 13 to reconstruct his actions during a shooting spree on the island.
Trond Solberg / VG - Scanpix Norway via SIPA
Breivik travels on the ferry under police guard.
The reconstruction took place amid a massive security operation that aimed to avoid escape attempts by Breivik and protect him against potential avengers. Breivik walked roughly the same route as the one he took during the shooting spree and explained what happened with as little interference as possible from police, Hjort Kraby said.
The entire hearing was filmed by police and may later be used in court, he added.
Trond Solberg / VG - Scanpix Norway via SIPA
Trond Solberg / VG - Scanpix Norway via SIPA
Breivik (top left, in red) leads police around the island.
Video images of the reconstruction published by Norwegian daily VG show Breivik arriving at Utoya with the same ferry he used to get to the island last month. Breivik wore a bulletproof vest and a harness connected to a leash over a red T-shirt and jeans as he casually led police around the island.
Breivik is seen pointing out locations along the way and simulating shots into the water, where panicked teenagers dove in to try to escape from him.
"The suspect showed he wasn't emotionally unaffected by being back at Utoya ... but didn't show any remorse," Hjort Kraby told reporters. Read the full story.
Trond Solberg / VG - Scanpix Norway via SIPA
Confessed killer Anders Breivik returned to the Norwegian youth camp where he killed 69 people to reenact his bloodbath for police. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
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Yep, the guy is loving every minute of this attention. Shame on the police. Whose brilliantly stupid idea was this? Makes me ill.
Yeah Ruth cause I'm sure you're way more qualified to consult their police force on how to adequately cover the loose ends and discrepencies in his story, right?
There is a reason why they took him back to the island. They want to make absolutely sure that he acted alone. There were conflicting reports about an accomplice being involved. If he is able to perfectly reconstruct the scene and account for all the actions, then he likely acted alone. If not, then the police would need to be looking for someone else as well. The investigators can't get this one wrong -- which is why the bold move of bringing him back to the island was required.
Stop second guessing the Norwegian authorities. Let Norway handle justice the Norwegian way.
Literally one of the most intelligent comments I've read on this story...
The fact that the worst this guy is facing is, what, 21 years in prison for this heinous crime gives me all I need to second guess Norwegian authorities.
just execute this guy already.
Let a few more of these incidents happen and they might be whistlin a different tune.
And I'm a liberal so I like gun control and the examples more "civilized" governments give us. But please kill these wackjobs and don't let them give any more little dog and pony shows. This nut clearly enjoys all the attention...
I am shocked by the "casual" nature of this tour and the police alike.
This animal gets the pleasure of reinacting his killing spree, at the same time the families and friends of the victims get a stark painful visual as to what happened on the island that day . . . just as they begin trying to put their lives back together.
Wow...just WOW!!!
I like the Yankee hat being worn by the police officer in the second pic while on the boat!
Looks like that was a good time to test out his swimming skills?
cool pictures
Too bad their wasn't a sniper hanging around as he strutted around telling of his cowardly deeds.
He had a bullet proof vest, but his head wasn't bullet proof.Right between the eyes.Bang!
Many of you are saying that the police are parading this criminal around and allowing him to re-live his day of glory. I think that you are wrong. If you have a monster in your custody, it would be foolish to not use the opportunity to its fullest capacity. It is very rare that a criminal survives an event such as this. Many mass murderers either commit suicide or are killed by police. If it makes him feel good again, so what? There is valuable information that can be had from an opportunity like this.
Also, many readers of this article are being misled. It fails to state a clear purpose for this visit. In another article linked from this one, it states: "It had been arranged to avoid the need for a reconstruction in the midst of the trial and to make the suspect remember more details." And according to the police, many more details about the crime had emerged in the 8-hour trip than in their 50 hours of questioning. This article merely displays photographs with a few sentences about them walking on the island.
Also, it is very obvious that the police did not release these photographs. The information on the bottom of every photo gives credit to a newspaper in Norway. VG stands for Verdens Gang. The photos are taken from afar by journalists. If you watch the Norwegian video that is linked from this page, you will see that it is very "paparazzi-style," especially the last clip of the black SUV speeding off from a slew of camera flashes.
Before jumping on the "We're letting him re-live his crime! And the police released the photos!" bandwagon, take these facts into consideration.
MK I would be careful using logic around this particular posting board... it really isn't utilized at all besides a few rare posts. You could get ridiculed for using it and I just wanted to warn you.
You are assuming that he is telling the truth and that he remembers what he did accurately.
So wait... either you assume he's telling the truth and it's cased close there... or you assume he's telling the truth and then when you try and gether more information on how he pulled this off you start getting skeptical. So which is it, annsrum?
This is an excellent idea, but it can be improved by having Anders Behring Breivik reenact the parts of the youngsters while the police use assault rifles and live ammunition to reenact his part, which has the additional benefit of saving Norwegian taxpayers the expense of a lengthy trial and so forth . . .
Another option is to drop Anders Behring Breivik from a hovering helicopter and to have him describe his "high-level overview" to "intricate detail" thoughts via a wireless microphone as he is falling to the ground from several thousand feet without a parachute, really . . .
Really! :-o
I fail to see what more they could gather by having him show them each step and each shot he took. They know it was him, they know he already shows no remorse. They know who was hurt, when and where. What exactly would they gain from this?
maybe if you did a little research or used that thing in your skull you could find the answers to the questions you seek!
@5thofNovember Wow Rude much!?!
My point being that I don't believe there is anything they could garner that would be of much value going forward.
I'll admit, a little over the top in the patronizing department there 5th.. however, I still think that the police over there are executing the actions that they think will benefit their investigation or knowledge of the incident and how to pick him and it apart. I don't think they'd take him out there just to feed his own ego. I read that the magnitude of this whole thing made them very skeptical as to how he could have pulled everything off that day without any help at all.
You're an idiot. "He should've been executed a long time ago?" It's so nice that we live in a world of "should of's." There is a judicial process for a reason.
Let's see. He has motor abilities as: raising his arms;walking;pointing ;conversing; clothing himself,etc.. Looks like a good candidate to be pushed inside of a boxing ring with gloves on him -and have some semi pro smack the living daylight out of this punk. Afterwards, let their legal system do it's thing.
Im sure they had to allow this to get a better idea of what happened, although I agree that this a disgrace to parade a admitted murderer into his crime spree is just crazy. But to me this is no better than the american legal system, and to think so is only arrogance. When a convicted child rapist can watch his crimes over and over on a TV in a American Jail is by far is just as sick.
its time to take their international man cards away from the Norwegians, this guy would have been Swiss cheese if this would have happened in America buddy.
But it didn't, buddy... we can all play the "what if" game and let me tell ya, you would probably win... but in the world of reality that we all live in... it happened in Norway, so they are gonna go ahead and do things their way. Earth to cableguy74 there are other countries in this world that do things differently than America.
5th -
How right you are. All hail the American Way! The Right Way! The Only Way!
Granted we can kick butt when the chips are down - but then this country is still an infant. Give us another 1000 years and maybe we will understand why others do things the way they do.
Still - when we set back on our honkers and criticize the others - that stupid american arrogance shines through looking like typical teenage ignorance.
The "officer" wearing the NY Yankees baesball cap and holding the leash is actually an American who works for 20th Century Fox. Keep a check on your upcoming TV and theatre schedules. All this is soon to be made into a docu-drama and major motion picture (in 3D) for ALL good ol' Americans to enjoy. Oh let's not forget it will be great training for the next media copycat, wanna be. That way people can show their disgust for our own doings all over again.
Feed the masses!
BURP!!
your 100% right Tom, some of these people are clueless - these cops look awful friendly with him. What more information do they need? They should be kicking his ass all over that island
I don't understand the point of this. How awful for the victims to have to see this lunatic reenact his crime.
I don't get the point of all this- there is no great mystery behind his murder spree. Even if they successfully are able to recreate it... to what end? He's already admitted guilt, why let him have the glory of recreating it for the media. This is totally F'd up.
You know what's actually F'd up? that you post ill-informed comments without any objective understanding of what or why they're doing this and then pass it off as fact.
You know what kind of people base their opinions off of their own self-perceived ideas of fact? Anders Breivik.
@5thofNovember If you know so much, why don't you enlighten us instead of insulting us like a small child. That isn't debate, that is just name calling. All you are proving is that you probably don't have an answer to the question.
annsrum are you opposed to doing a little research? It's so easy today with Google and stuff, but nahh who cares.
Ann, this is a one-day only deal just for you: The police in Norway were coming up with discrepencies and loose ends in Anders' story. They couldn't be certain that he worked alone in this operation just because he said he did. They had him map out and explain to them, in detail, how he executed this evil procedure. If you were the head of police and you had the worst murderer in your country's memorable history in custody and you needed to know exactly how this man pulled off such a tactical operation by himself, you would probably have him recreate it and show you exactly how he pulled it off so that you know how to defend it. Clearly they weren't showboating him around just to give him more publicity and fuel his already larger-than-life ego, critical thinking could have told you that. They are prodding and poking his brain trying to learn as much as they can from him. It's not too often you catch educated, rational, mass-murdering terrorists with political motives...
And I don't know what insults I used, or what names I called Mr. Blue, so could you please enlighten me on that one? Thanks...
Does anyone else think that it is odd that he is the only one wearing a bright red T shirt?
so they can spot him out easier as he stands out from the rest... critical thinking not one of your forte's?
Thanks for the insult. I guess that I was being too subtle. Given that Norway has a high rate of hunting rifle ownership, putting someone who has admitted to committing a horrendous crime in a red shirt and then having him walk about while posing in various locations seems to be an act of nonfeasance by the authorities.
ahh... my apologies wjrust, I took your comment way too literally... sorry.
Um... Breivik is one of the copycats.
@ Bry. Yep