Norway: ten years later, there is still no consensus around the Utoya massacre
Ten years ago, Anders Breivik, a far-right activist, killed 77 people, most of them on the island of Utoya where young left-wing activists were in summer camp.
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This July 22 in Norway is a very special day.
Ten years ago, Anders Breivik, a far-right activist, killed 77 people, most of them on the island of Utoya where young left-wing activists were in summer camp.
The country is preparing to commemorate the tragedy, but in the Nordic kingdom there is still no consensus around this attack, and the meaning to be given to it.
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With our correspondent in Stockholm,
Frédéric Faux
Utoya is the Norwegian September 11: 77 people killed in a few hours, in a bomb attack on a government building and on the island of Utoya, where young people were chased away with automatic weapons , like game.
However, ten years later, there is still no commemorative monument where Norwegians could pray. The populist Progress Party, in which
Breivik
actively campaigned, became the third in the country. Above all, a third of those who survived this tragedy continue to receive insults and threats.
For Astrid Hoem, current leader of young Labor, who survived the bullets of Breivik, it is time to question the ideology that armed her arm: “
After this attack, we spoke of an attack against the whole Norway.
But the truth is, it was also a political attack on the Labor Party in power, and on the young Labor activists.
Now is the time to talk about this right-wing extremism, and to question why ten years later this hatred is still there.
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Labor, who according to the polls could return to power after the elections on September 13, have already promised the creation of a commission of inquiry on the subject.
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