| Breivik had no accomplices: Police |
OSLO Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had ruled out that Anders Behring Breivik had accomplices when he killed 77 people last year, rejecting his claim to be part of a network prepared to strike again.
“We feel sure of this conclusion: no evidence in this case suggests any physical or psychological accomplices,” Oslo police chief Kenneth Wilberg told the Oslo district court on the 27th day of the right-wing extremist’s trial.
Breivik has insisted to police and in the 1,500-page ideological manifesto he posted online shortly before carrying out his twin attacks on July 22 that he was part of a pan-European organisation, the Knights Templar, established in London in 2002 to protect Europe from multiculturalism and a pending “Muslim invasion”.
In court, the 33-year-old confessed killer acknowledged that his description of the organisation and his role in it had been “pompous” or exaggerated, saying the group had just six members but continuing to insist that the other “cells” could strike at any moment.
“Police have not found evidence that the Knights Templar exists in the shape suggested by the accused,” Wilberg said, presenting the results of the biggest investigation in Norwegian history with at times up to 1,000 police officers working on the case.
He acknowledged that police had not managed to identify most of the 8,000 people Breivik had wanted to send his manifesto to on July 22.
The extremist has insisted that another member of the Knights Templar is on that list.
Finding that person would be like “searching for a needle among 8,000 other needles,” Wilberg said.
On the day of his massacre, Breivik managed to email his manifesto to around 1,000 of the some 8,000 people he had meant to send it to, due to a network provider spam filter limiting the number of recipients. “We have documented large parts of Breivik’s life, but we have not identified any accomplices,” Alf Nissen of the Norwegian criminal police told the court.
Agence France-Presse
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