The Man Who Murdered 77 People | Killing Spree (HD)| True Lives

[Music] in 2011 during just one afternoon Anders brevik embarked on a murderous rampage that would send shock waves around the globe we all had this Sensation that an act of war was really taking place as the clock ticked the body count Rose we had no idea if there was 15 people shooting one person shooting death toll was just driving all the time now I was convinced I was dead and with it the question why had brevik waged a 3 and a half hour war on his own innocent countrymen it's like trying to understand um Ted Bundy or Adolf Hitler and committed history's deadliest killing spree who did this who is behind this where did the hatred come from [Music] the 22nd of July 2011 Norway a Scandinavian country admired for its landscape High living standards and for having one of the lowest murder rates in the world in the capital city of Oslo the day had begun like any other 22nd of July uh is in the middle of the main holiday in Norway um and of course the weather was pretty bad as it always is um but it's still summer so most of the people were actually at holiday pretty normal Summer's Day in Norway actually we were in the office um and um it was quite a busy Friday um we were all looking forward to the weekend at 3:18 p.m. a white van is captured on CCTV parking next to Norway's government headquarters its driver is 32-year-old Anders brevik and cameras record him leaving the scene armed and dressed in police style uniform minutes later at 3:26 p.m. the country would be changed forever as the world's worst Kenny spree began Yim ringstad a local shop owner would would feel the ferocity of the explosion firsthand I remember just being in the office and um suddenly there was just like a pressure wave uh big pressure wave that just um kind of uh felt like it just blew through the whole building there was uh debris and dust everywhere in the air I thought the building would come down as well local businessman Yan tanberg would be one of the first on the scene to witness the unfolding Fallout when the bomb exploded I was uh underneath this building here in my car driving uh actually I was on my way home had to lay down on the floor in my car I thought the ceiling was coming down uh I was scared um it was a big air pressure through the tunnel my car stopped actually I started again and I drove out from the tunnel immediately when I got out from the tunnel I saw this uh disaster that had occurred outside I started to film maybe 8 seconds after the blast or the bomb went off the massive deadly blast killing eight transformed Oslo from tranquil to terrifying [Music] I thought it was a truck that run run into the building or an earthquake everybody around me just froze like they didn't know what to do and I just ran out to see what was going on and then when I got to the door the the second I got out I saw glass falling down from the sky so I couldn't run out I saw people on the street people were laying on the street uh it was very quiet I can remember it was totally silent um only thing I can hear was um the alarm inside the buildings the fire [Music] alarms with authorities beginning to arrive the scale of the task facing them quickly became apparent up the blast you could hear it all over Oslo up to 70 80 kilom away from from this spot we could people could hear the the bomb went off we could feel it uh uh even where I was living so I went outside uh and I looked toward the center of the town and there was smoke coming up where our government buildings are first thing I thought was um Norway was under [Music] attack one building I went into uh help some people out one building was so damaged so I I couldn't go into it I was afraid uh it will fall [Music] down it was a vacation it was a summer it was 3:00 in the afternoon most of the people were not at work thank God so most of the offices were empty the doors the walls everything was smashed in so we could didn't see that it has been an office people were really scared in town for more bombs or for who who did it the white van parked outside the government buildings had been packed with almost a ton of fertilizer based explosives its detonation had left eight dead and more than 80 injured we all had this sensation of uh that an act of war was really uh you know taking place and we were were wondering who did this who is behind this where did the hatred come from at 3:26 p.m. the 22nd of July 2011 Norway's capital city of Oslo had been devastated by a massive Car Bomb it was a day that Anders brevik had been preparing for for months and the bombing was merely the beginning of his Killing [Music] Spree the 13th of February 1979 Oslo Anders brevik is born to a diplomat and a nurse his childhood was marked by the divorce of his parents and worrying Behavior that would draw the attention of the authorities at a very young age he was under observation by child psychiatrist when he was at the age of three three or four years old uh and they all uh gave him a quite serious diagnosis uh that that that he was uh already different psychiatric setup than than than normal kids at the age of four brevic was assessed by psychologists because they became quite quite concerned about the home life his mother was bringing him up in they thought that he'd been sexualized in some way and that his mother was projecting her own ideas onto him that weren't appropriate for a 4-year-old boy the family unit would quickly begin to dissolve leaving Anders in the care of his increasingly unstable mother and isolated from his father I think but iic's father is is present mostly in the form of his absence you know he was uh he was not there for he certainly didn't have much of a family uh to to live with I would say he was of a neurotic background he was an individual who was prone to outbursts or dramatic scenes and shows of of large S as the dust began to settle in oslo's City Center the investigation had begun into who could be behind the atrocity I actually thought about 911 something like that because uh it was like a disaster area because people were just walking around slowly like they were like zombies in the sense was completely unprepared for something like this and U pretty much taken with their pants down one of the interesting things about brevik spree of course is that he bought himself extra time for a while the police are only taking calls about the bombing and nothing else pictures coming through to the police control room would offer the first crucial clues in their hunt for the perpetrator [Music] but the culprit was already one step ahead of the authorities and what he had planned next would dwarf the Carnage in the city and shock the entire world braik uh was driving out of town when the uh uh when this bomb exploded I think he enjoyed the deception he was absolutely relishing the Artistry of what he was doing he was driving for about 40 minutes until he came to the nearby lake of tior with confusion and tensions mounting across the country brevik would begin to execute the second stage of his plan the island of utoya was hosting a summer camp of young labor party activists and brevik was headed straight for them and they parked his car uh on the ferry Crossings over to UTA and he presented himself as the security police officers there to uh instruct them about security measures that needed to be taken in light of the the explosion that had just happened in Oslo and they sent the ferry over to collect him what would come next would be an act so Sinister if would strip a generation of its [Music] innocence located 50 minutes outside of Oslo the picturesque island of utoya is famed for its outstanding natural beauty Ura is actually like uh whole Norway just placed within a couple of uh th000 Square ft playing host to the annual summer camp for the youth division of the labor party utoya seemed a perfectly formed Paradise from Air it looks like a heart just dropped uh into our ocean every year we've been using the island for a big summer camp Where We Gather maybe 700 youth one one week in in July I cannot explain it in any other word that perfect summer camp but this Island idle would soon be transformed into a nightmarish vision of Violence by Anders brevik people were playing football volleyball everything was just normal perfect suddenly um the one who was running the island we called her mother utab comes in with a look on her face that I've never seen before on anyone and she said something has exploded in Oslo of course we were shocked but and we saw pictures and it was like seeing a like scenes from a city in the war it was like someone switched the light off and took the breath out of everybody's lungs it was no joy anymore I remember walking up here and my mother called me she she was worried something happened to me and I said no nothing happened I'm on I wasn't in Oslo and uh she should be just calm because I'm probably at the safest place on the in Norway right now no one could have imagined that The Man Behind the bombing in Oslo had his sight set on the island of utoya Anders bik's position as an cider had been defined at an early age but we grew up in a very uh affluent part of town uh but he had a single mother and an address which was not kind of uh onar with with his classmates and I think he felt uh rejected aged just 14 he had sought acceptance by joining a nationalist gang but his natural demeanor set him apart from the other gang members as I remember meeting this guy it's probably on a party um I can kind of see him uh just sitting there U watching trying to figure out how to blend in however there was one aspect of youth culture that brevik did excel at one which demonstrated his ability to prepare and execute a plan in extreme detail he would also try to establish you know reputation as a graffiti artist so he he was uh apparently according to you know the people knew him at the time planning his you know graffiti raids like a general extremely good with the logistics getting the number of cans and planning his missions he was definitely searching to get some recognition uh to be someone as it happened all the time with him uh he he worked very hard for recognition but he ended up being rejected by also by these people brevic has certainly made reference to being isolated when he was younger and in his teens but he's also showed Adept skills at belonging when he needed to so although he postures himself as being The outsider's Outsider as a narcissist he's also very capable of working on the inside when he needs to such capabilities would prove crucial in carrying out the second stage of a killing spree that has already eight dead at 5:17 p.m. on the 22nd of July 2011 the fery arrived at the island of utoya disu Ed as a police officer and claiming an obligation to keep butya's inhabitants safe from harm brevik was welcomed they sent the fer over to collect him and They Carried his big uh suitcase with his ammunition at 521 the first shots were fired beginning what would be over an hour of unimaginable horror the first thing he did was to go uh and ask for the Guardsman of the island to come with him and the woman who was the head of the camp and then he drew his uh pistol and he shot them both in the head I could see people running and him shooting and I could see three people fall just right here at 523 Anders brevik approached the cafeteria interior a building busy with youngsters I were in the cafeteria and then I saw very many people were that were running outside and I called them because there were no reason to to to run like they were doing and one of them told me that's a guy were shooting them um and I both took it serious because he had a very stressed voice but also I thought it was a joke I thought maybe this one was an act I thought this day has been already so absurd it couldn't get any worse I run outside of the building and then there were all already some people that were lying outside that were killed and then that was the moment that I understood that this was for real as confusion spread amongst the campers brevik maintained a menacing calm his singular purpose the intention to kill there was this girl approaching him from a distance looked like a policeman and this man walked normally with a normal speed towards this girl and this girl was just walking normally towards him he pulls up his gun that he held in his hand down by his thighs he points it up at this girl she stops and slowly started working backwards he continues with the same speed towards her and a series of rounds goes off and he shoots her down into the ground there were around 500 young people gathered around the cafeteria and the campsite it was like nothing not even a single leaf or straw grass moved everything just stood completely still and at the same time that girl hit the ground it seemed like the ground just lifted itself up and started running away and that was all the people running at 5:31 brevik began working his way through the campsite towards the woods between the strings and the tents and the things lying around chairs it was like an obstacle course this was obstacle course where if you fall you would die actually the gunman had already shot and killed 21 as he made his way through the woods towards the southern tip of the island he would take 15 more lives I just run and then I came to the to the Sea so there were no place to to to run anymore and then I just hide in the in the grass you could hear the trees crunching from the bullets that were fired away you can also see bullet holes we heard a lot of shooting uh so at the time we heard shooting it was of course terrible because we knew what was happening even though I never prepared for this and never prepared for running for my life or being attacked like this it's also quite impressing how the body react Act and the only thing the mind is set on is to survive before you even start to think about something your body and your mind has already done it before you realize you have to run you're already there before you start to think swim you're already in the water rumors of the atrocities unfolding on utoya began to circulate across Norway journalist Marius Anderson would be dispatched in a helicopter to investigate when we approached UT uh the weather was really really bad it's raining from kind of all directions and you have to go in pretty low like as slow as possible without breaking any any laws uh and I just told my pilot to start circling the island I need an overview I need overview pictures I need to understand what's going on because I had no idea for many on the island the only option was to swim for their lives leaving my cell phone behind and my wallet in my pocket so I could be unidentified we started swimming I started seeing people in the water um and the the strange thing about your mind is that you don't expect people to be swimming away from an island like like scar this was a summer camp in my head and my head told me oh they're taking a swim and it takes like a second and you're no they're not swimming they're not baiting they're swimming away from the island I couldn't breathe so after 50 maybe 100 meter I turn back I realized this was going to be too far and uh I also realized that I was probably going to drown at that time we started to realize that this is a process that goes over time because it doesn't really add up your head doesn't really want want to believe it you think okay it's reported shooting it might be someone playing with fireworks on one side of the scale and on the other side of the scale it might be a mass murderer but that's highly unlikely I remember water level was probably around my hi hip or or ties somewhere standing coughing there was no one around me so I thought thought that there wasn't and suddenly the same man that I saw earlier comes out of the woods just right next to me 8 maybe 10 m away and started screaming that uh that I'm going to kill you and you must all die today [Music] at 3:26 p.m. on the 22nd of July 2011 the Norwegian capital of Oslo was devastated by a massive Car Bomb eight would die and more than 80 would be [Music] injured nearly 2 hours later a new new horror had begun 25 miles away when a gunman began running a Muk on utoya a small island packed with young people attending a leftwing labor party Camp journalist Marius Anderson was in a helicopter above the island but was as confused as the people on the ground at that point we had no idea if there was 15 people shooting one person shooting we didn't know that there was one guy dressed as a cop but I remember I saw a big tall character which I then thought okay that might be police the gunman dressed as a police officer was 32-year-old Anders brevik and he had already taken the lives of 36 people on the island at 5:40 p.m. he began shooting at the youngsters in the water he started shooting into the water after the people that were swimming and when you saw the Columns of water that were rising from the bullets you realized this is happening for real and after he finished shooting he turned around towards me and aims at me you can see into the barrel I don't know why I screamed but I did but I screamed that no don't shoot me in the blink of an eye he pulls down his rifle turns around and walks away later brevik would claim that he hadn't shot Adrien at that moment because he looked right-wing in appearance when he was 27 years old brevik had left his shared flat and began detaching himself from the world he moved into his mother's apartment and began immersing himself in a world of online gaming and extremist internet sites he was isolated living with his mother uh staying mostly in his room playing computer games almost incessantly visiting extremist websites he also started to uh behave um rather oddly uh he would be sometimes very angry with his mother and when she was Ill he would use a face mask to avoid contamination somehow and he would go around in the apartment dressed up in some of these uniforms that he purchased which was really props for this uh character he was building for himself friends would notice a change in the anti-islamist describing him as increasingly withdrawn and reclusive many spray Killers have undergone a period of social withdrawal and social isolation in the few months before they actually engage in their Le lethal attack it could be that while brevik was in his period of isolation he began focusing more and more on his spree as the only solution but it could also have been a very canny way for him to go off the grid years later he would turn his violent video gaming into reality 6:08 p.m. the 22nd of July viya Island and as brevik had already taken the lives of 40 9 people with police occupied by events in Oslo local residents took to the water in boats in a bid to begin a relief effort plucking those that had chosen to swim to safety from the freezing Lake one of those residents was local hotel worker Vigo Larsen [Music] [Music] [Music] um the local police dispatched officers to the island Norway's specialist counterterrorism unit Delta Force would also be called into action I called the police several times and and they said they were on their way but um it took more than 1 hour so yeah we were completely helpless at around 610 p.m. a large group of youngsters were at the pump house when a police officer arrived and informed them that the culprit had been caught as they gathered together he opened fire it was brevik and 14 would die at that moment the really striking aspect about the massacre on UT is how calm uh braik was uh how methodical he was and how careful he was one of the common mistakes that journalists and media reports make particularly in the immediate aftermath of a spree is they believe that the killer was crazed deranged and shooting victims at random we certainly see time and time again in spree killers that they are focused and calm and very much in control of both their emotions and the situation for Adrien and those still trapped on the island the terror would continue I was there all alone I thought maybe lightning wouldn't hit the same place two times but it did and then only a group of people arrived you could hear someone Whispering he's coming by 6:30 p.m. brevic had circled the island and returned to the southern tip where he began shooting again the moment was captured from the circling helicopter and the first shot was so loud before I even could open my eyes I felt something warm next to my head it felt like my head exploded now I was convinced I was dead Adrien had been wounded in the shoulder five of those around him would die from what I know the last bullet that was fired on uh here was the bullet that hit me in the shoulder and still is there he uh was captured 1 minute and 20 seconds after the last shot after an hour and 9 Minutes of unchecked Bloodshed Delta Force would arrive on the shores of utoya to face down Anders brevik the last thing that we were actually able to see was the police uh walking like in tactical formations like terrorists like Terror cops do uh and shcking out stuff then the man responsible for a massacre would surrender without a fight brevik spree was certainly different from many other sprees that have gone before it predominantly spree Killers either kill themselves or they are killed by law enforcement clearly brevik wanted to be taken alive so he could give his ideological views a platform [Music] although the violence may have been over for those survivors left on utoya the trauma would continue I was rescued by the police and they took me away and I was taken by a private boat but when we came to the hotel where everybody was gathered all those who surviv I immediately understood that the numbers of the killed will be ex extremely high I'd like to say anything happened so fast but actually it didn't it happened very slowly seemed like we're trapped here forever and some part of me probably still is in one afternoon Anders brevik had claimed the lives of 77 of his countrymen eight in Oslo and 69 on utoya island he claimed to have committed the massacre as a political [Music] act several months prior to the attacks the reclusive right- Winger had moved from his mother's Oslo flat to an isolated Farm 2 hours North all the while he kept a diary of his preparations these would form a significant part of a large Manifesto one that he intended to publish he played a very Savvy game of taking lots of media friendly pictures of himself posturing with guns posturing in uniforms looking very Ayan on some occasions showing his blue eyes and his blonde hair he saw himself as being suitable for breeding almost like a stud for future generations of the Aryan race so he's clearly a very narcissistic individual who knows how to sell the image of what he was trying to pass on and under the guise of becoming a vegetable farmer brevik would use his seclusion to his Advantage Gathering ammunition and planning his attack this is when he researched and planned and uh got there with all of his equipment and started manufacturing his bomb on the 21st of July 2011 the day before his Killing Spree brevik completed a final wky in Oslo City Center before returning to the Farm one last time he was picked up at Raina station by taxi driver arold tangan I metet the braic in the train station and uh he stand there want the taxi so I ask him if I maybe drive him home since a farm is about uh 12 km from uh Rena from big farms with a lot of space he had the the place and to do what he was going to do brevic has claimed that he spent 11 months preparing for his spree and bomb attacks he clearly knew what he was doing and he knew the best way to go about it he could effectively disappear while he ordered the parts and stockpile the weapons and bomb making equipment that he would need after uh I drive him home he went out of the car and uh he just uh stand in the middle of the cour yes when I let him out he we just standing there with this briefcase I think why don't you go in or do something but he just di there so I took my time to just to see but I never been down to the farm before he had no intention to go inside the house because he was in a hurry brevic would wait for the taxi to leave before d driving back to Oslo at 2:09 p.m. brevik would make his motivations public sending out his 1500 plus page Manifesto to suppose sympathizers across Europe just over an hour later his Killing Spree the deadliest in world history would begin but what had driven Anders brevik to commit such an unimaginable crime on the 22nd of July 2011 Norway had changed forever Anders brevik attacks in Oslo and on utoya had left a nation in mourning it is sometimes easy just to talk about the number about the attack but I mean these were 77 individuals that are no longer with us most of them were very young the youngest was 14 uh the majority were below 18 so yeah that is that is what 22nd of July is about is is those who lost their [Music] lives I didn't feel anger I just felt sorrow I felt sorry for for the whole situation uh this guy I didn't feel sorry for but um all the people that he hurt and all the families that he destroyed um I just wish him dead in court brevik would attempt to use his trial as a platform to promote his Twisted ideology it seemed like the court was kind of a theater for him what the whole trial was about for him was to get recognition as a political uh terrorist as an extremist as a militant uh and not to be somehow written off as as crazy that picture of brevi giving the fisted salute probably did as much for his PR as his 1500 page Manifesto did and again that is one of the legacies of of pri's murders is that he's been allowed to live and allowed to publicize his deranged beliefs Anders bearing brevik would be found guilty of the the murders of 77 eight losing their lives in Oslo and 69 on the island of itoya he would receive a 21-year sentence the maximum possible under Norwegian law a question that still puzzled however was what could have caused this man to commit such chilling crimes to try to understand people like this I don't think it's possible it's like trying to understand um Ted Bundy or Adolf Hitler uh it's impossible that's I guess the question that most of us has been asking us how can one person do this how can you be able to do it as a human being the core the essence of the hatred of braik stems from from from child abuse and uh was somehow refined over the years bravic wasn't mentally ill but there is evidence to suggest he was either a paranoid personality type or indeed he was more likely to be someone with a narcissistic personality disorder if you think about you know could he have been stopped earlier is that the one time he was really within the system when when somehow the Norwegian State Authority uh recognized there was something wrong it was at the time when he was really young when he was three or four years old but the system let him go for Adrien pron the court case had answered a disturbing question it doesn't make any sense for me and uh I don't know why I'm alive how can I be this lucky many spree killings we see some victims are shot others are allowed to live at Coline in Hungerford and again in utoya with brevik we see some victims are toyed with and they're allowed to survive on the whim of the offender he explained in court after a week that he remembered why he spared me and uh he said I looked like uh like one of his like a right-wing extremists I didn't look like a Marxist and he thought that I should stay alive despite breik having taken aim at his own people and striking at their very heart their refusal to be cowed by their attacker Stands Strong 1 minute we are falling because someone is shooting after us and couple of days later we're all standing in the streets with our roses and torches and Rising again and I believe that's the best experience uh a country can have with themselves to fall and Rise together although the innocence of itoya may have been lost on the 22nd of July its beauty will remain it affected Norway uh in the way that um Norway is not small and safe anymore my daily life is like before uh but of course uh it changed it changed Norway and it changed me a [Music] person for Adrien pron the experience of that day may have been harrowing but his bond with the people that traveled there that fateful summer has survived I still say it and um the closest people around me also say it that I never returned home from UTA and um that's because a part of me is still struggling out there [Music]

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Published: Sun May 26 2024