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Episode 183 - Anders Breivik: Norway's Nightmare

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

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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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