The survivor:

A few months ago, Tarjei Jensen Bech was able to go jogging again for the first time. For the first time since July 22, 2011, when a bullet from Anders Behring Breivik's rifle hit him in the left leg. Bech was 19 years old and one of around 550 participants at the annual summer meeting of the Norwegian Jusos on the island of Utøya, a good thirty kilometers northwest of Oslo. Breivik murdered 69 of them that Friday afternoon, many of them still children and young people. He had previously detonated a car bomb in Oslo city center that killed eight people. The terrorist, a Norwegian with no criminal record and from a middle-class background, justified his crimes in court by saying that he wanted to protect Norway from the immigration-friendly policies of the Social Democratic Workers' Party.In a court case, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention, the maximum sentence in the Norwegian legal system. The attack was ten years ago. Ten years in which many Norwegians, in whom an entire country had to learn to live with terror and its consequences.

Sebastian Balzter

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Tarjei Jensen Bech no longer thinks of Breivik very often. At least that's what he says. But the wounded leg still hurts him every day. Football games like in the past are out of the question, when skiing he only dares to go cross-country skiing, not downhill. What happened immediately after the shooting on Utøya, Bech remembers only incomplete: He fell down a slope several meters deep and temporarily lost consciousness. The day after, he was brought to his home in northern Norway in an ambulance plane. He was hospitalized in Tromsø for nine weeks. He was operated on eight times, on his leg and face. The impact after the fall had broken the bone in his left eye socket. Hardly anything can be seen of that. "It could have turned out much worse," says Bech today.

Since the attack he has been afraid of the police

Not only has his body been damaged.

Doctors diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder.

Breivik had disguised himself as a policeman on Utøya, it was a typically Norwegian rainy summer day.

"When I see a uniformed police officer, I sometimes get scared or start to sweat," says Tarjei Jensen Bech.

“Sometimes it's enough if it's just raining.

It's hard to control, ”he says.

"It works best when I'm with friends."

The corona lockdown recently made it a bit more difficult than usual. Just like the law degree that Jensen Bech started. It is his second academic attempt. The first, which began soon after he was discharged from the hospital, dropped out after a few semesters. At that time he was not ready for it, he says.