Anders Breivik: biography and life in prison

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:44

The name Anders Breivik is probably known to everyone all over the world. That is the name of the Norwegian terrorist who, without blinking an eye, became the killer of 77 people, more than 150 people were injured of varying severity. At the same time, the forensic medical examination did not recognize him as crazy. Of course, mankind still cannot understand how a person with a normal psyche could commit such an atrocity, and then confess to a crime, but not consider himself guilty. We think you will be interested to know in what conditions this cold-blooded killer lived and was brought up.

Breivik Anders: biography, life story

He was born in 1979, February 13 in London. His father, Jens David Breivik, is an economist by profession working in the Norwegian diplomatic mission in the UK, and his mother, Wenke Behring, is a nurse. He had two half-sisters, both paternal and maternal.

When Anders was not yettwo years, his family broke up. The mother with two children returned to Oslo and settled in the we althy Skojen district of the capital, the father remained in England with his daughter from his first marriage. Wenke soon remarried. This time her husband was a military man, a major in the Norwegian army. Jens Breivik also remarried, to an embassy employee. He did not lose contact with his son. Anders spent most of his holidays at his father's house in Normandy.

Anders Breivik as a child was an obedient child, a kind of sissy. He first attended Smestend Primary School, then Rhys High School and Hartwig Nissen High School.

Difficulties of character

As a teenager, Anders Breivik became addicted to graffiti culture and painted on walls and fences at night. When his father caught him doing this, he was terribly angry with the boy. After this quarrel, they practically did not communicate. By the way, in the same period, the father divorced his third wife. Any attempts of the son to renew the relationship were accepted by them with hostility. Ian had four children, but he did not maintain a relationship with any of them. It was also difficult for young Anders to communicate with peers, so after graduating from school he decided to graduate remotely, online at the Norwegian School of Management. Friends say that until the age of 30, he practically did not leave the house, avoiding direct contact with people. He never had a girlfriend except for some casual one-night stands.

Adult life

Since 1996, Anders Breivik has worked for a yeara salesperson in one of the consulting companies, and from 1999 to 2003 was a call center employee at Telia. In 2005, he himself founded a company for processing and storing information data, but it lasted only 3 years and went bankrupt by 2008. Breivik also managed to serve in the army, where he learned to shoot. Since 2009, he founded a company that grew vegetables, which allowed him to purchase a large amount of chemical fertilizers, from which explosives were later made.

Political views

Unsociable in youth, Anders became interested in politics at a more mature age, joined the Progress Party - the largest political association in the country - and participated with pleasure in crowded party meetings. He even held some small posts in the youth wing of the organization. Since the 2000s, there has been a sharp bias towards nationalism and extreme radicalism in his political views. He had a special hatred for the peoples who professed Islam. He was deeply convinced that their presence in his country was destructive to Norway.

And then he publishes a manifesto in which he declares that he is disappointed in the peaceful democratic methods of fighting the Islamists and therefore considers it necessary to have armed intervention in this process. He also joins the Norwegian Masonic lodge "Saint Olaf". However, he does not become a convinced Freemason and even criticizes the order, for which the brotherhood decides to expel him (2000).

A year later "searchthemselves" lead Breivik to the "Knights Templar" organization. Here he receives the secret name Sigurd. Since he had experience working with a data bank, he also fulfills the same mission here, collecting information about various "interesting" organizations and individuals. Here he is further strengthened in his anti-Muslim sentiments. In short, before Anders Breivik killed 77 people in one of the most brutal terrorist acts of the 21st century, his hatred of migrants, especially those from Asian countries, grew to incredible proportions.

Some details from life

By the way, in his youth, one of the few friends of Anders Breivik was a Muslim, a native of Pakistan. It was with him that he began to engage in graffiti. Thanks to his whimsical drawings, Anders got the nickname Mord (translated as "murder").

Favorite authors of the future terrorist were I. Kant and Adam Smith, and among politicians - Winston Churchill and Vladimir Putin. He also dreamed of meeting Pope Benedict Sixteenth. Breivik was fond of hip-hop, dancing, went to a shooting club, went in for sports. He was not interested in women, he said that they would distract him from his main idea.

Breivik devoted several years of his life to creating a manifesto, which consisted of one and a half thousand pages. He also made a video summarizing his thesis. The key ideas of his manifesto are the condemnation of multiculturalism, emancipation, homosexuality and decadence.

Psychological portrait

After committing a double crime, when Anders Breivik killed several dozen civilians with explosives and small arms, the police, talking about him, about his behavior, say that he left the impression of a completely adequate, calm, polite and balanced person, but a bit withdrawn and uncommunicative.

Crime Day

During the attack, Breivik dressed in the uniform of the Norwegian police. As weapons, he had a pistol and a carbine. He also had a fake ID, which he showed at the ferry crossing. Since there was already an explosion in Oslo and the police were on their ears, he convinced the employees of the ferry station that he was a secret agent and wanted to go to Uteya Island in order to ensure the security of the camp. In this regard, all members of the camp were gathered in one place. And he began to fire at live targets. The killings lasted about 90 minutes. After that, as if he had completed an important mission, he surrendered to the police without any resistance.

Anders Breivik. Prison, detention conditions

After the announcement of the verdict - 21 years in prison - Breivik was placed in solitary confinement, the area of which is 24 square meters. meters. It consists of a bedroom, a gym and an office. He is not forbidden to correspond, he can walk in the courtyard under the supervision of security, play sports and even receive distance education.

And yet he is unhappyconditions of detention and in 2012 filed a complaint about life in prison. It turns out that he did not like the attitude of the guards, the rubber handle on the door that rubs his hand, the quality of the food. And imagine he won the trial. The conditions of his detention were revised and improved, and a large amount of compensation was received into his bank account. In a word, today a cold-blooded killer, who, moreover, was not recognized as crazy, lives in conditions that many millions of honest citizens around the world dream of.