Thursday, July 28, 2011

Norway killer 'mommy's boy,' parents split when he was one year old, father cut him off at age 15, rejected son's reunion attempt

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7/26/11, "Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was 'mummy's boy' with few friends no girlfriends before Norway shooting," Telegraph Au, Lucy Carne

"THE privileged background of the Norway massacre gunman was revealed yesterday by acquaintances who described him as a "mummy's boy"
  • who did not leave home until he was 30.

Anders Behring Breivik, 32, is a diplomat's son who spent the first year of his life in London.

He had few friends and no serious girlfriends and his writings betray a deep bitterness at being abandoned by his father at the age of 15.

Breivik was born in February, 1979.

His father Jens was an economist who worked at the Norwegian Embassy in London.

His parents split when he was just a year old, and his father remained in London working while Anders and his mother Wenche Behring, a nurse, moved back to Oslo along with her daughter Elisabeth from a previous relationship.

They settled in a rented apartment where he stayed with his 64-year-old mother until just two years ago. His sister moved to California.

Jens stayed in London and married a fellow embassy worker, Tove Vermo. They fought for custody of Anders but failed, and moved to Paris. Anders regularly visited them there and at a holiday home in Normandy. They divorced when he was 12.

In his writing Breivik blames his father for their estrangement after he was caught spraying graffiti on walls in his early teens.

He writes: "I have not spoken to my father since he isolated himself when I was 15 he was not very happy about my graffiti phase from 13 to 16. I tried contacting him five years ago but he said he was not mentally prepared for a reunion."...

Anders Behring Breivik’s father Jens David Breivik yesterday said he was disgusted and distraught by his son’s ruthless killing of 76 people and that he wished the gunman had committed suicide....

The former Norwegian diplomat, believed to be in his 70s, spoke from his secluded home in Cournanel, southern France where he is being protected by police from potential revenge violence after his son’s Oslo bombing and Utoya island shooting massacre - one of the world’s worst mass murders - on Saturday.

He said he first became aware of his son's attacks from online news sites.

"I couldn't believe my eyes. It was totally paralyzing and I couldn't really understand it," he said....

Mr Breivik remarried after splitting with the suspect’s mother when his son was one, but severed contact with his son in 1995, when the son was 16.

"I still have contact with Tove until this day but have not spoken to my father since he isolated himself when I was 15 (he wasn't very happy about my graffiti phase from 13-16:)," Behring Breivik wrote on his rambling manifesto posted online just before he embarked on his deadly spree.

Behring Breivik’s mother, Wenche Behring, is a nurse who lives in Oslo and has not asked for police protection, authorities said.

Behring Breivik admitted to bombing the capital and opening fire on a youth group retreat on the island resort and was yesterday ordered to spend eight weeks in jail, including four weeks of solitary confinement, before he tried.

He pleaded not guilty but told authorities he expected to spend the rest of his life in prison as a necessary sacrifice in order to save Europe from "Muslim domination”....

Last night he told the court that his bomb attack and island shooting rampage was aimed at saving Europe from a Muslim takeover, warning he was working with two other cells....

Behring Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad said his client had demanded "a circus".

"He has two wishes: The first is the hearing is public and the second is that he may attend in uniform," he said....

Investigators said yesterday that Behring Breivik used fragmenting bullets which cause severe damage when entering a body, explaining why the death toll on Utoya was so high.

The massacre provoked calls for Norway's lenient sentencing to be scrapped and the death penalty introduced.

Breivik has been charged with two counts of terrorism. Under Norwegian law, the maximum sentence for mass murder is 21 years, with some prisoners released after 12-14 years.

If he served 21 years it would be the equivalent of just 82 days per murder.

However, prosecutors are asking for an indefinite extended sentence, which would be reviewed every five years.

A British police officer is liaising with Norwegian police after Behring Breivik revealed in his online manifesto that he met with members of the UK's far-right movement the English Defence League."...

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I've been patiently awaiting news of his parents and childhood and of course it was chilling. ed.



via American Thinker

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