Anders Breivik: biography and life in prison

The name of Anders Breivik is probably known to everyone around the world. This is the name of the Norwegian terrorist who, without batting an eye, became the murderer of 77 people, more than 150 people were injured of varying severity. At the same forensic examination did not recognize him as crazy. Of course, mankind still can not understand how a man with a normal psyche could have committed such a crime, and then confess to committing a crime, but not to consider himself guilty. We think you will be interested to know the conditions under which this cold-blooded killer lived and was brought up.

Breivik Anders: biography, life story

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

When Anders was not yet two years old, his family broke up. A mother with two children returned to Oslo and settled in a rich in the capital district of Skoyen, his father stayed in England with his daughter from his first marriage. Soon, Wenke remarried. This time, her husband was a military man, a major in the Norwegian army. Jens Breivik also married again, on an embassy employee. He did not lose contact with his son. Almost all vacations Anders spent at his father's house in Normandy.

Anders Breivik in his childhood was an obedient child, a sort of mama's son. First he studied at the elementary school of Slendend, then at Rice High School and Hartwig Nissen High School.

Complexities of character

In his teens, Anders Breivik began to get involved in graffiti culture and painted at night on walls and fences. When his father found him behind this occupation, 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 by his son to resume relations were accepted by them with hostility. Ian had four children, but with none of them he did not maintain a relationship. Young Anders also found it difficult to communicate with peers, so after graduation he decided to get higher education remotely, in online format at the Norwegian School of Management. Friends say that until the age of 30, he almost never left home, avoiding direct contact with people. He never had a girlfriend, except for some random one-day acquaintances.

Adulthood

Since 1996 Anders Breivik worked as a salesman for one year in one of the consulting companies, and from 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the call center at Telia. In 2005, he himself founded a company for the processing and storage of information data, but it lasted only 3 years and by 2008 was ruined. Breivik also managed to serve in the army, where he learned to shoot. Since 2009, he founded a company that was engaged in growing vegetables, which allowed him to purchase a large number of chemical fertilizers, from which he subsequently manufactured explosives.

Political Views

Unacceptable in youth, Anders became more involved in politics at a more mature age, joined the Progress Party - the largest political association in the country - and was pleased to participate in crowded party meetings. He even occupied some small posts in the youth wing of the organization. Since the 2000s, his political views have been sharply biased towards nationalism and extreme radicalism. He had a particular hatred for the people who professed Islam. He was deeply convinced that their presence in his country was devastating for Norway.

And then he issues a manifesto in which he declares that he is disappointed in peaceful democratic methods of fighting Islamists and therefore considers it necessary to intervene militarily in this process. He also joins the Norwegian Masonic Lodge "Saint Olaf". However, he does not become a convinced Mason and even criticizes the Order, for which the Brotherhood decides to expel him (2000).

A year later, "finding oneself" leads Breivik to the organization of "Knights Templar." Here he gets the secret name of Sigurd.Since he had experience working with a data bank, here he performs the same mission, collecting information about certain "interesting" Organizations, and individuals, where he is further strengthened in his anti-Muslim sentiments.In short, before Anders Breivik killed 77 people, having committed one of the most violent terrorist acts in the 21st century, his hatred of migrants, especially from Asian countries, Incredible zmerov.

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 started graffiti. Thanks to his bizarre drawings, Anders received the nickname Mord (in the translation "murder").

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

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

Psychological picture

After committing a double crime, when Anders Breivik killed several dozen peaceful people with explosives and small arms, the police, talking about him, about his behavior, say that he left the impression of an absolutely adequate, calm, polite and balanced person, but a little reserved and unsociable.

Crime Day

During the terrorist attack, Breivik dressed in the uniform of Norwegian policemen. As a weapon, he had a pistol and a carbine. He also had a fake ID, which he showed on the ferry. Since Oslo was already blown up and the police were put on their ears, he convinced the staff of the ferry station that he was a secret agent and wanted to get to Uteya Island to ensure the safety 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 murders lasted about 90 minutes. After that he, as if committed an important mission, surrendered to the police without any resistance.

Anders Breivik. Prison, conditions of detention

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

And yet he is dissatisfied with the conditions of detention and in 2012 sent 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, which rubs his hand, the quality of the food. And imagine he won the court. The conditions for its maintenance were revised and improved, and a large amount of compensation was received in his bank account. In a word, today a cold-blooded killer, who was not considered crazy, lives in the conditions that many millions of honest citizens in the world are dreaming of.