Racist plot claim by mass killer Breivik

Breivik, who has admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre, said that no one would have asked for a psychiatric examination had he been a “bearded jihadist”.

“But because I am a militant nationalist, I am being subjected to grave racism,” he said. “They are trying to de-legitimise everything I stand for.”

Breivik rejects criminal guilt for the killings on July 22, saying the victims had betrayed their country by embracing immigration.

Even the defence admits there is no chance of an acquittal, so the key issue for the trial is whether Breivik is criminally insane.

Two psychiatric examinations reached opposite conclusions on that point. Breivik insists he is sane, and accuses prosecutors of trying to make him look irrational.

He became defensive as prosecutors quizzed him about sections of the 1,500-page manifesto he posted online before the attacks. In one section, read by prosecutor Svein Holden, Breivik speculated that in his future society, the loyalty of potential members of the Knights Templar group he claims to belong to might be tested by asking them to undergo surgical amputation and castration. Breivik said this was taken out of context.

The 33-year-old showed no remorse as he continued his testimony about his shooting spree at the annual summer youth camp of the governing Labor Party.

Speaking calmly, he said he used a handgun to kill victims if the distance was less than 10 metres. Otherwise he used his rifle.

Asked why he spared one man, Breivik said he thought it was because his appearance made him look “right wing-oriented”.

Asked if he wanted to apologise for killing the young people, Breivik said: “No I don’t. Utoya is a political indoctrination camp.”

“I see all multicultural political activists as monsters, as evil monsters who wish to eradicate our people, our ethnic group, our culture and our country.”