Norway attack live coverage: Anders Behring Breivik in court

[Ichingcarpenter]

Court clerk just stopped me getting inside the court. Closed hearing. All media banned, late change of heart from judge.

11.26am: The judge has decided that the hearing will indeed take place behind closed doors, AP reports.

11.24am: Mark Townsend is hearing word that the case will be heard behind closed doors:

Reports suggest Breivik will not appear in public after all. Even for a nation as open as Norway, his bile deemed too unpalatable.

11.19am: My colleague Kim Willsher, who is looking at developments in France, reports that police there are protecting Breivik's father and not searching his house, as previously thought:

French gendarmes have denied carrying out a search at the home of Norwegian assassin Anders Behring Breivik's estranged father.

Local officials said gendarmes had been sent to the luxury villa in the village of Cournanel in the Aude to protect retired diplomat Jens Breivik and his Norwegian wife Wanda.

Antoine Leroy, state prosecutor at Carcassonne, said the officers were there in a "preventative role".

"There is no specific evidence to make us believe there is the slightest threat against this man, but it is prevention. There have been rumours of searches, but this is wrong. There has been no legal action at Cournanel," Leroy told French journalists.

The gendarmes have said they are expecting to be posted to guard the Breivik house for some time. Leroy confirmed reports that members of the French Foreign Legion had been seen outside the villa on Sunday, but said this was because a Legionnaire was acting as a translator between the couple and gendarmes.

In an interview published in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang on Sunday, Jens Breivik said he was in a state of shock after hearing the reports of the massacre on Friday. He said he had not seen his son for years and had only discovered what he had done from reports on the internet.

He has since refused to answer questions from journalists outside his home. His wife Wanda, who reporters said does not appear to speak French, said in Norwegian that she had never met her stepson.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/25/norway-attack-live-coverage-anders-breivik

[malaise]

1. Good

No one will hear the mass murderer

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. He wanted to wear a uniform at his hearing

which was denied. Most likely the one that in showed
on line, the formal one not the parapolice one.

I'm glad its closed to reporters and the public, at least for now.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. court says: Breivik's "views will be denied a platform".

Court clerks have told Mark Townsend that Breivik's "views will be denied a platform".

The judge will explain later on the closed hearings but
the police also requested it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Here's what the court has to say about the decision

Here's what the court has to say about the decision to conduct proceedings away from the public and the press:

Based on information in the case the court finds that today's detention hearing should be held behind closed doors.

"It is clear that there is concrete information that a public hearing with the suspect present could quickly lead to an extraordinary and very difficult situation in terms of the investigation and security."

[malaise]

9. When you shoot and kill over 84 innocent youngsters for over an hour

you pretty much lose the right to a public platform.

Have you seen his diary?

add

[ellenrr]

3. Interesting..as far as my brief survey shows - the right-wing murderer

is getting much more press in non-US media.
To be expected, but still....

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. What's Morning Joke saying or CNN?

I imagine they are covering the so called debt crisis and
just mentioning slightly the Mass Murderer by a right wing
christian fanatic..

[Berlin Expat]

7. Trigger-happy Norwegian teabagger

Salam alaykum one and all.

I'm here in Berlin. I haven't been following on TV, but I can quite understand not giving this maniac a public platform to air his views; in many ways, he already has with his Manifesto being all over the place online.

Over in Freeperville, there's a lot of folks in total denial about the fact that this guy was essentially one of their own; they're trying to portray him as a left-winger. In some fairness to the wingnuts, there are a few (VERY few) Freepers trying to set the record straight, but they're getting ignored or flamed. I'd say there's still a lot of the wingnuts over there who're insisting this fool is some kind of closet jihadist or some such nonsense.

By the way, my first posting. First of many, to be sure.

Alaykum salam!

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Welcome to DU.a very nice first post

Thanks for the update from Berlin

[Berlin Expat]

11. Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the welcome, one and all.

I don't always have time to respond to posts, but I do my best.

Salam.

[Bryan Buchan]

10. Welcome to DU!

I have less than 200 posts, but I have been here for years....read more than write ;)