E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS
Heiko Junge / Pool via EPA
Anders Behring Breivik (center) is escorted out of court by police during his trial proceedings in Oslo, Norway, Friday.
A man identified as the older brother of one of the victims of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik threw a shoe at him during his trial Friday, the first time the proceeding has been interrupted by a public outburst.
"Go to hell, go to hell, you killed my brother," the man, who was seated in the second row of the public gallery, screamed as he threw the shoe at Breivik from a few yards away, newspaper VG reported on its website.
The shoe missed Breivik but struck his co-defense lawyer, Vibeke Hein Baera, who was seated closest to the public gallery, during the presentation of an autopsy report.
"Luckily, it was just a shoe," Hein Baera told the AFP news agency after the incident.
Norwegian media said the man was a brother of one of the victims of Breivik's rampage, but his name was not immediately available. He was removed from the courtroom by police.
The nation looks to rally after a bombing and shooting spree leaves 77 people dead.
"Some spectators were uncomfortable. Some started crying. Many clapped their hands," Swedish journalist Bjoern Lindahl said, according to the Press Association news agency, which added that the incident contrasted with the usual "polite atmosphere" in the court.
The incident came during a week of harrowing testimony from survivors of Breivik's rampage across the small island of Utoeya last July, where the ruling Labor Party was holding a youth camp. He killed 69 people there, many of them teenagers.
Breivik has listened calmly to the descriptions of his killings and shown hardly any emotion, except when hearing descriptions about how he was said to have let out "cries of joy" and laughed while shooting, which he has denied.
Breivik has admitted the killings, but denies criminal responsibility. He says he was defending Norwegian ethnic purity from Muslim immigration and the multiculturalism backed by the Labor Party.
Reuters contributed to this report.
More world news from msnbc.com and NBC News:
- Bad neighbors for Team USA? Occupy camp axed
- WWII fighter plane found preserved in Sahara Desert
- Egypt's first TV presidential debate thrills viewers
- 88,000-mile voyage? Plastic card found after 33 years
- Hell-raising holy men: Boozy monks caught gambling
- Sources: Spy who uncovered underwear bomb plot is a Brit
- Video: Murder and corruption scandal rocks China
- Move over, Al Roker! Prince Charles becomes weatherman
Follow us on Twitter: @msnbc_world
Leave a Comment:
I wish somebody would slap the smirk off this animals face. Hopefully they put him in general population and someone kills him.
At least his defense lawyer got beaned in the process........
I don't understand why they give this monster a 'forum' to espouse his political views.
He admitted to the crimes, and should merely be sentenced to the maximum term allowed.
The REAL shame is the prison conditions he will enjoy as a 'prisoner' - little less than a 'country club' atmosphere, with private 'quarters', healthy meals, exercise facilities, a personal trainer, library and internet access. And by the way, he still gets to accumulate his 'pension benefits' so he can leave prison with plenty of money to live on after his sentence is served.
That's part of their 'enlightened' view of punishment.
This may sound barbaric but tie him to a post and set him on fire publicly. Make the punishment so heinous as to be a real reason to consider not being a mass murderer.
Brevik is a good little nazi and represents a large portion of the Norwiegian population. Don't forget that troops from Norway fought with Hitler against Stalin during WWII while Norway's Royal Family fled to England.
Iraqi journalist, in Dec. 2008, throws shoe at George Bush ... The shoe missed Little Georgie but struck Dick Cheney straight in the forehead.
@Adam, it wouldn't matter. The guy is a fanatic and unhinged. There is no deterrent for that.
But this is the reason I don't believe in the death penalty. Because if someone harmed one of my loved ones, nothing would satisfy me but holding the perpetrator's still-beating heart in my hand. Think Magua in Last of the Mohicans, you know, when he eats the dude's heart right in front of him.
But I don't want to live in a society that perpetuates that kind of violence and makes it commonplace (think Elizabethan England, as an example). And humanely executing someone just seems too kind in addition to being irreversible in the case of unjust convictions (not a problem in this case, but where is the line of demarcation?). From my perspective, there could be no greater hell than a life without freedom. To know that I would never be able to take off down the road to explore the world around me, that I could not eat what I wanted, touch my loved ones, control my life in any meaningful way... If that's not your idea of living hell, then I think you're so broken as to not signify as human anymore.
I haven't seen him smirking in any of the pictures or video of him. I agree with his political views. I don't believe that killing a bunch of innocent kids was the correct way to get his beliefs heard in a public forum. If anything he did his cause a disservice by drawing negative attention to those who believe their country should not embrace multiculturalism especially when the invading culture is one that bases it's legal system heavily off it's violent religion. Almost seems like an agent provocateur.
I wish it had been a knife, and he had been more accurate and hit him in the face.
Take that shoe away and hand that man a huge bucket rocks!!! Don't stop throwing until that bucket is empty!
@Roywilson
Source? Or just frothy ranting?
It's sickening that the family members have to sit through this sterile and stolid trial while this monster gets treated with respect. They should be allowed to spit in his face.
Well Roy, perhaps their "enlightened view of punishment" is just that:
Do you seriously think that by comparing life in Norway with life in the US, the US is going to come out on top?
B.Todd you are a typical disgusting malinformed conservative. Norway was invaded by the Nazis and occupied for over 5 years. The Nazis installed a puppet government, stole resources and deported Norwegian jews to the death camps.
Its true that some Norwegians volunteered to server the German military under the puppet government. Those entheusiastic men (about 6,000) were promptly sent to the Eastern front. In contrast over 40,000 resistance fighters in Norway fought to great effect, even when thier towns were blown to smithereens by the Allies . Norwegian resistance forces destroyed Hitlers atomic bomb program.
So get informed before you come into this thread about a Norwegian tragedy and start calling them Nazis ! What IS IT with you people?
Where are some of those famous Norwegian berserkers when you need them? All it takes is one of these family members to go "berserk" (in the original sense of the word) in the court room, and no cop will be able to stop them from literally ripping Anders apart with their bare hands.
There needs to be a five day waiting period on shoes, and a complete ban on boots and flip-flops, or else the violence gets out of hand. That shoe almost killed a lawyer, and we know the world would be just an awful place with one less lawyer
B. Todd, don't say stuff like that.
The Norwegians are more open minded and tolerant in average than Americans are. Most Scandinavian countries are like that.
Many countries had a minority of people being Nazi and fighting for Hitler. Even America ( Ford (motors) admired the power and sold to Hitler prior to the war) provided fans.
Anyhow, back to the subject. Too bad he missed.
I'd say he's already a shoe-in
I'm just shocked at the security screening at that court..........letting a man enter with a loaded shoe!!!!
The guy who threw the shoe, and other family members of the victims, should be given control of this murderous piece of $hit to kill in any manner they deem fit.
He is right about the muslims. However, wrong way to go about it.
In 1970 - united states had 9,000 muslims
in 2010 - over 2 million muslims
in 2050 - ??
Read about what happens when muslims reach even 5% of the population.
jamesJameson
You got it. They will keep him in the back ground until needed. And the way the world is going, it will not be long. Just stay tuned! But quite a few people are NOT paying attention.
Heya fools, we can't all be ignorant bigots, now can we?
@ scopata messico and @ jamesJameson,
Ask anyone that is part of a British or French, or Spanish, or Dutch colony what happens when Christians come to town. I think the natives of North America would have an opinion too, but there aren't too many of them left as they were systematically eliminated. I think the term for that is Genocide. It was that way across the globe once Euros discovered gun powder and decided they would just kill everyone that looked, dressed and spoke different than them.
I think it's a hoot that Christians have a problem with immigration. Why? because it was the white European Christians that emigrated to foreign lands with superior natural resources and then either converted or killed the locals at the end of a musket.
It would seem the "shoe is on the other foot now" and Europeans are feeling what Africans, Australians, Indians, Americans, etc. felt a few hundred years ago. The only difference is the immigrants now are invited in :)
Sorry about the karma thing coming back to bite you. What really sucks is in America the legal immigrants (i.e. Asians, Indians) are coming in and getting better GPA's, better educations and better jobs than the locals. No muskets needed, just ambition and superior work ethic.
Live and let live.
This man represents not only Nazis but many of the viewpoints of ignorant Americans. Many of you who are commenting on this site with you hateful bigoted points of view. All republican?
Redmen, how should I put this? you're an idiot. The Native Americans were some of the most violent people on the planet. They would kill each other for absolutely nothing and were in constant state of war between each other fighting over lands and not much more. You are a moron for thinking that the natives were some tree huggers living happily in isolation-- its the complete opposite.. Yes we took their land right from underneath their feet-- just like hundreds of African tribes did as well as Indian, which are both still happening today.. Wait do you think that the Christians are responsible for the cesspool of garbage Africa is hahahahahah you are a naive fool -- see you lack a true view of history
Karma indeed will be at play-- especially for the Muslims who kill in the name of a non existing god, who rape their own women and then partake in homosexuality but execute the ones who are open about it..among thousands of other atrociousness that the politically correct leaders refuse to address.
This is the thing about democracy, we can do what no muslim nation can do--we can get rid of our stupid/corrupt/incompetent leaders in every election cycle while the muslim nations have to fight in bloody revolutions just to elect another psychopath.. Karma is already here
Shame there wasn't some way the person that threw the shoe couldn't have wrapped it aroud a bullet. This guy is getting less than 6 months prison time for each life he took. How in the bloody h*ll is that justice by any stretch of the imagination?
Meaningless, like the shoe thrown at Bush 43, changes nothing. Perhaps golf shoes have more potential.
Put the golf shoes on and jump up and down on this clown for a few hours !!
He should have lobbed a grenade at him.
I hope they never let him out of prison.
Actually, I hope they do, but only after he has been taught proper shower protocol a few thousand times. Then, on the day of his release, it should be publicized well in advance, down to the minute of the day, and when the doors open to let him out, all the guards should be looking back inside the prison, and the police should be out to lunch for a few hours. I think the welcoming committee that would await him would then take care of business properly, and with extreme finality.
So many people seem to think this guy is going to get off easy because of Norway's sentencing laws, but that's not necessarily the case. There is a way around that sentence; they are allowed to keep him in prison longer if they deem him a threat to society. After killing 77 people for their political beliefs and his own racist justification plus that he is showing no emotion, and is in fact happy he did it, he is clearly a danger. Just because their laws seem more lenient to us than ours in the US, does not mean they are stupid or pushovers. This guy is never seeing the light of day again. And even if he ever did get out for some bizzare reason, he's dead the second he hits the public streets.
"If found sane, Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to society. If declared insane, he would be committed to psychiatric care for as long as he is considered ill."
This mass murderer claimed his actions were not criminal because he was doing some 'ethnic cleansing'. Cleansing indeed! We can hope that this mass murderer hasn't already spread his 'seed' and produced more creatures like himself. We need to be saved from such a horrid thought.
My sympathies to all the families who lost their loved ones to this mass murderer. May he enjoy his new forum in PRISON. He'll be a mere splash in the huge pool of SCUM.
peace peace when will it ever realized
I hope this man rots in prison of the rest of his life, but he won't, because the max in Norway is something like 20 years. Maybe someone will be looking for a boyfriend. That would be nice, Since he hates Muslims, maybe it will 350 lb Akmed. Anyway, IF there is a HELL, I hope that's his next stop.
There are those who argue that capital punishment should be completely abolished because it is not an effective deterrent to crime.
Using that same defective logic, one can successfully argue that prison sentences of any length, up to and including life without parole, should be abolished as well since incarceration is just as ineffective in deterring crime, as witnessed by the increase of the prison population by leaps and bounds over the past several decades.
But, you see, capital punishment is not about deterrence: it is, as the word itself implies, all about PUNISHMENT!
That’s right: capital punishment was never intended to be a deterrent, but a punishment to be carried by the state upon a criminal found to have been guilty of a heinous crime. Capital punishment will, nevertheless, deter at least one specific individual, the one sentenced to be executed, from committing a crime ever again!
So what constitutes a heinous crime?
When one individual violates another’s right to Life and Liberty, a heinous crime has been committed.
There are three instances that a heinous crime for which capital punishment must be dispensed: murder, rape and torture.
In the above crimes an individual’s physical, mental and emotional well-being are violated.
Having stated the above, i have only four words left to utter: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
I've never heard of an executed murderer killing again.
Have you done a web search yet of "white european races?" This Anders Breivik guy happens to be the "image" poster child of white european races. Right along there with Hitler. You should learn the joke of the cartoon: "Hagar The Horrible" (for the 13 tribes of Eric The Horrible) the "sow" that Abraham jumped or Hagar. I suppose a recent entry into white european races has been Adam Mayes (DECEASED). You believe in "white power" then check out porno for all those other races (Hamburger Hill) all white girls. Miley Cyrus your up next for their prayers answered in a nude photoshoot. Meanwhile they pant like dogs. Addicts!
Those Euros like to lecture us Americans about the barbaric nature of the death penalty. Seems like they missed the mark in this case.
The US has a crime rate that is more than 10 times what it is in Norway. The recidivism rate of people who have gone to prison is less than half also. Perhaps the US could learn something?
Let those who lost family members take him out slowly and painfully.
In this country, that act would qualify as a hate crime.
Devil's advocate would say in response to the brother's comment, "You go to hell, your brother and his kind are killing my country and its cultural heritage".
There's always two sides, and seldom are either "right".
@John Gaskill
Devils' advocate would say in response to your comment, "You came to our land first and turned it into hell for us, turn about is just fair play."
Apparently there are more than just two sides.
"King's to you...", Count of Monte Cristo
Was watching this show on the history channel about the dark ages one thing that comes to mind is give this guy the bloody eagle that would take his smile away. Come on Norway the vikings used to call your land home grow some balls and show that pos what pain is
Its very sad that at this day and age we still have some scums who can justify violence against other race, faith, gender, national origin, orientation, etc...Pathetic!
Anyone who believes their race is superior to that of another is akin to Nazism. This evil MUST be hunted down and eradicated from the planet for all time. If we allow people, such as this unrepentant killer, a forum to proclaim his manifesto of evil to all the world, it, like a virulent disease, will spread, infecting those of weak minds and character to perpetrate unspeakable acts of cruelty, culminating in the destruction of everything we, as a spieces, hold dear. It MUST be eradicated for all time!
In the nations of islam he wouldn't get a trial.
Guilty or not, he gets one. We - are civilized!
Evenstart. 13 headless bodies found in mexico, were is your outrage? By the way no one has been charged!
I am outraged, you should have read my comment on it.
Evanstar13...doubt this will ever be eradicated...keeps releating itself throughout history...but we can live in hope that some day we might find a workable solution
Slyvia-4139336 - Sad but true...unfortunately.
A shoe thrower, must be muslim. Media tries real hard to suppress the facts
Exactly...who throws a shoe in the west? Then you'll lose your shoe, lol
I thin we can infer that most of the victim's relatives are Muslim. He was on a Muslim murdering spree after all.
Redman...wrong! most were his countrymen. Members of the ruling Elites. Hobnobbing to get into the right schools or the special government job
You know that how exactly? There were 564 people on the island. A survey showed that 1 in 4 people in Norway knew 1 of the victims. Doesn't sound like they were all members of the ruling elite to me. Many of those killed were 16 or under. The median age was 18.
Between the tea party, the religious right, the neo-cons and white supremest. This could happen here.
Plenty in our country who do not want our melting pot to continue.
doug bair,
You forgot OWS. They just tried to blow up a bridge. Haven't read anywhere where a tea party, the religious right, neo-cons (I doubt you know what that means but you think it sounds insidious) have attempted that. But hey, Radical Left Wing Progressive/Wack Jobs have a point when they do it, right?
If only the shoe was steel toed...
i'm a FIRM believer in the death penalty. haveing said that i respect a persons right not to support it. Having said that for someone to get what is it 20 years or something max.. for killing all of those people. If your a believer that that makes everything even... you're living in some kind of world i dont want to be a part of. I dont know what punishment would fit this crime but he sure won't get it in the court he's in.
Shoe throwing is too gentle to admonish this psychopath. One should spit on him and pe* on him American GI style.