OSLO — Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik apologized Monday to those he described as the “nonpolitical” victims of his car bomb attack on Oslo’s government quarter.
The right-wing extremist, who confessed to slaughtering 77 people last July, is giving his final day of testimony in an Oslo court.
Breivik, 33, said he wanted to apologize for killing “innocent” people in the bombing but offered no similar apology for the Utoya island massacre.
Eight people were killed in the Oslo bombing, and a further 69 people — mostly teenagers — were killed in a shooting rampage hours later at a Labor Party youth camp on the island.
“I would like to offer a large apology,” Breivik said, directed at those who were injured or killed in the bombing. Breivik said they were just passing by and had no political connections.
But he told the court he considered Utoya island a political “indoctrination camp.”
Breivik admits to all of the killings but pleaded not guilty to terrorism on the grounds that he acted in self-defense to stop the spread of Islam.
The five judges will have to decide if he is insane or criminally responsible. What they decide will dictate whether he will spend the years ahead in a prison cell or on a psychiatric ward.
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