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Anders Behring Breivik
Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian mass murderer, neo-Nazi, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks. A believer in the Great Replacement theory, he sought to combat perceived "Cultural Marxism" by detonating a car bomb at the Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then carrying out a mass shooting at a summer camp of the Labour Party's youth wing on the island of Utøya, in total ki…
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business · Norwegian terrorist (born 1979) · trader · salesperson · entrepreneur · mass murderer · terrorist · conspiracy theorist · also Anders Behring Breivik, Anders Breivik, Andrew Berwick, Fjotolf Hansen, Jan Johansen, Far Skaldigrimmr Rauskjoldr av Northriki
Born 13 February 1979 · Q44220
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2026· 8 entries
“How could he just stand there and kill so many innocent people and just seem to think that what he did was OK? He should have taken his own life, too. That”
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“s attacks from media websites.”
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“the Battle of Vienna in 1683 should be celebrated as the Independence Day for all Western Europeans as it was the beginning of the end for the second Islamic wave of Jihads”
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“PST is not saying that I am still dangerous, but they are saying that I have an inspirational effect.”
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“many years have passed since I had any meaningful relationships”
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Public attention spiked: 20,310 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 2,992, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: December 2024 civil trial and 2025 appeal Started on the 9 makes no sense. Clearly ninth was meant
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Changed his name to Jan Johansen, one of the most common name-combinations in Norway
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2025· 1 entry
Changed his name to Far Skaldigrimmr Rauskjoldr av Northriki, which was described as a fantasy name loosely reminiscent of Old Norse
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2023· 1 entry
Breivik chose not to receive further visits, including from the military chaplain (ranked major) whom Breivik had been seeing every two weeks since 2015
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2022· 1 entry
Blamed the neo-Nazi organisation Blood & Honour for having radicalised him to the use of violence, and that this group carried the main responsibility for the terror attacks
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2021· 1 entry
Studied at Molde University College (2021).
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2019· 1 entry
Claimed to have converted to democratic right-wing populism
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2017· 3 entries
It was reported he had changed his legal name to Fjotolf Hansen
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Norway's Supreme Court decided not to hear the case
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Changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen
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2016· 2 entries
However, Breivik stated that he had in reality been a "national socialist", or Nazi, since age twelve, read Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925) at age fourteen, and that he had in later years only disguised himself as a cou
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Was overturned on appeal, and later challenges, including a 2024 case on prison isolation, were unsuccessful
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2015· 2 entries
Studied at University of Oslo (2015).
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Claimed in a letter that harsh prison conditions had forced him to drop out
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2014· 2 entries
Stated that he had exploited "counter-jihadist" rhetoric as a means to protect "ethno-nationalists" and instead start a media hunt against "anti-nationalist counter-jihadist"-supporters, in a strategy he calls "double
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Breivik threatened to starve himself were his latest list of demands refused; these included "access to a sofa and a bigger gym", and better video games
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2013· 2 entries
Five of the 300 letters that he sent had not been confiscated, he testified in court in 2016
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And researcher Mattias Gardell interviewed Breivik in 2014, but no other visitor requested by Breivik has been granted access
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2012· 3 entries
Politicians protested Breivik's activities in prison, which they saw as him continuing to promote or expose his ideology and possibly encouraging further criminal acts
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Breivik listed as his influences a number of neo-Nazi activists, as well as perpetrators of attacks against immigrants and leftists, considering them "heroes"
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Convicted on all charges, and sentenced to the maximum civilian penalty of 21 years' imprisonment under preventive detention, extendable indefinitely if he is deemed a continuing danger
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2010· 1 entry
Visited Prague in an unsuccessful attempt to buy illegal weapons, so he decided to use legal channels in Norway instead
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2009· 1 entry
And his assets amounted to 390,000 kroner (US$72,063), according to Norwegian tax authority figures
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2007· 1 entry
Were about kr 630,000 (US$76,244), according to Norwegian tax authority figures
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2004· 1 entry
And was removed from the membership list in 2006
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2002· 1 entry
At the age of 23, he started a nine-year plan to finance the 2011 attacks, forming his own computer programming business, whilst working at a customer service company
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1998· 1 entry
Studied at Oslo Commerce School (1995–1998).
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1984· 1 entry
A hearing in front of Barnevernsnemnda (the municipal child welfare committee) took place on whether Breivik's mother should lose custody of him
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1981· 1 entry
Breivik's mother applied for financial welfare benefits; in 1982, she applied for respite care for her son
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1979· 1 entry
Born 1979-02-13.
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