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Norway mass-murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik: Killings were self-defence
  By Peter O'Neil. Europe Bureau, Postmedia News July 25, 2011 7:36 AM

Anders Behring Breivik will be held for eight weeks under strict conditions, with no access to the media or visitors, after admitting in Norwegian court Monday that he was responsible for the mass murder of 93 people Friday.


But he didn't plead guilty, essentially taking a self-defence stance, Judge Kim Heger told journalists after the 40-minute hearing.


"The accused believes that he needed to carry out these acts in order to save Norway and Western Europe from, among other things, cultural Marxism and Muslim takeover," the judge told journalists.


Breivik, 32, said he needed to "carry out these acts" to save Norway and Western Europe from "Muslim colonization," according to the judge.


Breivik also said his slaughter of youths at a Labour party camp was intended to send a message to the ruling Labour party about its pro-immigration policies, and discourage recruitment in that party.


Breivik revealed during the hearing the existence of two other "cells" involving like-minded individuals in Norway.


The judge said it was "too early" to determine if further remand hearings, and the trial itself, will be held in public, though he acknowledged there was significant public interest in the case.


A Norwegian prosecutor has said Breivik could, if found guilty, be imprisoned beyond the country's 21-year maximum sentence.


But to keep him in jail for the rest of his life, in the country's famously comfortable prison system, would be unheard of in the peaceful, egalitarian country of five million people, said Carol Sandbye, a lawyer who works in Norway's office of public prosecutions.


She said the country's General Civil Penal Code gives the state prosecutor the right to seek an extension of sentences beyond the 21-year maximum for up to five years at a time, on the condition that the inmate is deemed to be a "high risk" of repeating serious offences.

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This undated image obtained on July 23, 2011 on Facebook shows the 32-year-old suspect questioned by Norway's police over twin attacks on a youth camp and the government headquarters that killed the day before at least 91 people in Norway's deadliest tragedy since World War II. While there was no official confirmation of the suspect's identity, he was widely named by the local media as Anders Behring Breivik. Police confirmed that the suspect is ''Christian fundamentalist'' and had posted anti-Muslim rhetoric online. According to the TV2 channel, he has links to right-wing extremists and possessed two weapons registered in his name.



A young boy lays a flower opposite Utoya Island, following Friday's twin extremist attacks on July 25, 2011 in Utoya, Norway.