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🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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On 22 July 2011, Anders Breivik sent out thousands of the same email. The subject line read: "The Islamisation of Western Europe and the State of the European Resistance Movements", and attached was his 1500 page manifesto. He then detonated a bomb in the government quarter of Oslo, before heading to the island of Utøya, where he would become Norway's worst mass murderer - after taking the lives of 77 people, mainly teenagers.
In this episode Hannah and Suruthi take a look at the childhood and life that led Anders Breivik to carry out one of the worst European terror attacks of the last decade.
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0:14.4 | I'm Hannah. I'm Zuri. |
0:17.2 | And welcome to Redhanded. I should have learned how to say welcome in Norwegian, |
0:22.0 | but I have not despite my very imminent plans to move there because I am now obsessed with it. |
0:27.4 | One of my only friends from when I lived in Costa Rica was Norwegian. |
0:30.6 | And I got in touch with her this weekend to double check pronunciations of stuff. |
0:33.8 | And I can confidently say that nothing is pronounced in Norwegian the way you think it is. |
0:38.4 | Oh, I see. Okay. Plot twist language. Got it. |
0:41.6 | Plot twist. So shout out to Annette for helping me out because they're just a system is so different to anything else in the West. |
0:49.4 | It was quite difficult to negotiate. |
0:51.4 | But I did. Thanks to Annette. So let's get on with it so we can all find out why I am Norwegian now. |
1:00.6 | In the forest in Norway, miles away from his native Oslo, a 32 year old man was making a bomb. |
1:06.6 | When he had shown up asking to rent a remote farmhouse, the landlord thought it was odd that such a well groomed city type would want to come and live out in the forest. |
1:15.6 | But rent money was rent money. So he left the man to it. |
1:19.0 | Neighbors also thought this city man was weird. |
1:21.8 | He certainly didn't know very much about farming. |
1:24.2 | He drove all his fertilizers straight up to the barn and never managed to grow any crops. |
1:29.6 | But like the landlord, they left him to it. |
1:32.6 | The man was very glad of this peace and quiet illegal bomb making factories are quite obviously best undertaken alone. |
1:39.6 | He had made very sure that no one would suspect what he was doing. |
1:44.0 | He bought his sulfuric acid from car dealerships, his sodium nitrate and powdered aluminium from Poland and his plastic bags from China. |
1:52.0 | eBay helped him to make quite a few of his anarchist cookbook purchases. |
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