Post date: Aug 14, 2011 6:11:17 PM
Police say they were right to take Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik back to Otoeya island where he killed 69 people, because revisiting the scene jogged his memory. They say he has shown no signs of remorse for his actions..
OSLO, NORWAY (AUGUST 14, 2011) (TV2 NORWAY - Norwegian police took confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik back to Utoeya island on Saturday (August 13) to stage a reconstruction of his hour-long slaughter of 69 people there three weeks ago.
In a photograph of the visit carried by the VG newspaper, 32-year-old Breivik is shown standing in a shooting position, as if aiming a rifle at someone in the water trying to swim away.
Police prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said Breivik remained calm during the reconstruction that gave police valuable information.
"Regarding the suspects explanations, he has been interrogated for almost 50 hours prior to this and he has remained calm, detailed and cooperative, which he also was at Otoeya. Our assumption that his presence at Otoeya would jog his memory was correct. Many new details emerged from his explanations," Kraby said on Sunday (August 14).
In VG's long-lens pictures Breivik is shown harnessed with a rope leash while clad in a bullet-proof vest and red sweater as he led investigators around Utoeya under heavily armed protection. At times during the eight hour visit he also wore handcuffs and ankle cuffs.
Kraby described Breivik as calm and cooperative, as he has remained throughout almost 60 hours of interrogation conducted since the July 22 shooting at Utoeya which followed a car bomb explosion on the same day in Oslo that killed eight.
"It was clear the suspect was not unmoved at being back on Utoeya, it is not in our interest to elaborate further on this at present, but there was no expression of regret for his actions," Kraby said.
Despite Breivik's admission that he committed the attacks, Kraby said, an extensive reconstruction was needed to show survivors and relatives exactly what happened.
"Early in our investigation it became clear that it would be desirable to get the case explained as thoroughly as possible and the suspect is a very important source of information. This case has a large amount of very serious incidents to investigate," he said.
The victims of the mass shooting had been attending an island summer camp run by the youth wing of Norway's Labour Party, which Breivik condemned in a rambling manifesto for promoting multiculturalism.
Most of the island victims were in their teens or 20s, and some were shot while attempting to swim to safety.