Anders Behring Breivik is held in a former Nazi concentration campSuspect of last Friday’s attacks in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, is held in a former Nazi concentration camp, where prisoners were tortured and executed by the Gestapo, reports The Daily Express, in the electronic edition on Thursday.
During the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War resistance fighters, political prisoners and Norwegian Hebrews were detained in camp Grin, before being sent to Auschwitz.
Breivik, who admitted to killing 76 people, is kept in isolation, to prevent him committing suicide in a cell in this prison, renamed Ila, located 11 kilometers from Oslo. His isolation cell has only a bed, a chair, a table and toilet. Visitors, television, letters and newspapers shall be prohibited. In the eight weeks until the next hearing, Breivik will only be able to meet the priest, psychologists, doctors and his lawyer.
“It is important to not allow him to disseminate his message to try to recruit others to its ideology. It means that he will be completely isolated from other prisoners”, said Knut Arne Svenkerud, from the prison officers association in Norway.
Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto, published before the attacks, reads that he plans to escape from prison and use buried weapons in a series of murders in a “bonus operation”. According to police, he avoided being shot by police on the island Utoeya by throwing his weapon, raising his hands and surrendering.
Andrin Johansen, a 16-year-old survivor of the armed attack on the Utoeya island that resulted in 68 dead people, told how she pretended that she was dead, remaining motionless in the water after he shot her. “I looked at the killer in the eye when he pointed his gun at me and fired three times (…). Like many of the wounded survivors, I turned dead. I acted on instinct and it saved my life”, she said.