The Norwegian gunman who killed last July 77 people said on Tuesday he would “do it again” as he stand before the court in the second day of the trial.
The Norwegian gunman who killed last July 77 people said on Tuesday he would “do it again” as he stand before the court in the second day of the trial.
Granted clearance to deliver a lengthy address to the court, Anders Behring Breivik described the massacre as "preventive" attack to "defend ethnic Norwegians and avoid a European culture war with Muslims".
And after describing Christians as "a persecuted minority," the 33-year-old asked the court to free him while making clear he had no remorse over last July's bomb attack in central Oslo and shooting spree on a nearby island.
"Yes, I would have done it again", Breivik told the court on the second day of the trial, adding that spending his life in prison or dying for his people would be "the biggest honor".
Breivik on Tuesday evoked the idea of accomplices, telling the court that two other one-person "cells" existed.
"I am a self-run and independent cell, and I am connected to two others," he told the Oslo District Court.
Breivik described his attacks as "the most spectacular operation conducted by a militant nationalist this century" and claimed that "rivers of blood caused by Muslims" are now flowing in European cities.
"Multiculturalism is a self-destructive ideology," he said, expressing disdain for Norway's generous immigration policy.
Meanwhile, the judge who called for death penalty for Breivik was replaced by another.
"The death penalty is the only fair outcome in this case!!!!," Thomas Indreboe, one of the two lay judges on the panel, posted a message on a website the day after the killings (in July 23 last year).
Following a submission from both the defense and prosecution teams, Indreboe was deemed “unfit” and replaced by one of two substitute judges, Anne Elisabeth Wisloeff, already present in court.
Breivik has previously described his actions as "cruel but necessary" and claims he acted alone and in self-defence against those he considered to be "state traitors" for opening Norway up to multiculturalism and allowing the "Muslim invasion" of Europe.
He faces either 21 years in prison -- a sentence that could thereafter be extended indefinitely if he is still considered a threat to society -- or closed psychiatric care, possibly for life.
