I’d do it all again says gunman in Norway massacre

Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik insisted he would commit the massacre of 77 people all over again, calling his rampage the most “spectacular” by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

Reading a prepared statement in court yesterday, the right-wing fanatic hit out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and multiculturalism and told his trial he acted out of “goodness, not evil” to prevent a wider civil war.

And in a move which distressed the families of victims, he vowed, “I would have done it again.”

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Breivik, who has argued he is not insane or suffering from a personality disorder, has five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo’s government district last July, killing eight people, before he then gunned down 69 others, mostly teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp on remote Utoya island outside the Norwegian capital.

He has denied criminal guilt, saying he was acting in self-defence, and claims the targets were part of a conspiracy to “deconstruct” Norway’s cultural identity.

“The attacks on July 22 were a preventive strike. I acted in self-defence on behalf of my people, my city, my country,” he said as he finished his statement, in essence a summary of the 1,500-page manifesto he posted online before the attacks on July 22 last year.

“I therefore demand to be found innocent of the present charges.”

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