The gunman rambled on about the supposed aims for the attack, which included reducing immigration by intimidating immigrants and driving a wedge between NATO and the Turkish people. Breivik’s lawyer Oeystein Storrvik told Norway’s VG newspaper that his client, who is in prison, has “very limited contacts with the surrounding world, so it seems very unlikely that he has had contact” with the New Zealand gunman.
However, he admitted contacts with an anti-immigration group called the reborn Knights Templar and said he got the approval of Anders Breivik for the attack, a claim that has not been verified.īreivik is a right-wing Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people in Oslo and a nearby island in 2011.
He said he has donated to many nationalist groups, but claimed not to be a direct member of any organization. Three months ago, he said, he started planning to target Christchurch. He said his desire for violence grew when he arrived in France, where he said he was offended by the sight of immigrants in the cities and towns he visited. That was when an Uzbek man drove a truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, killing five. Throughout the manifesto, the theme he returns to most often is conflict between people of European descent and Muslims, often framing it in terms of the Crusades.Īmong his hate-filled statements is a claim that he was motivated toward violence by an episode that occurred in 2017 while he was touring through Western Europe. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.” The manifesto also included a single reference to President Donald Trump in which the author asked and answered the question of whether he was a Trump supporter: “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure.
In a tweet, Owens responded by saying that if the media portrayed her as the inspiration for the attack, it had better hire lawyers. And he singled out American conservative commentator Candace Owens as the person who had influenced him the most, while saying “the extreme actions she calls for are too much, even for my tastes.”
He said he has contempt for the wealthiest 1 percent. The rambling manifesto is filled with confusing and seemingly contradictory assertions about his beliefs.īeyond his white nationalistic views, he claimed to be an environmentalist and said he is a fascist who believes China is the nation that most aligns with his political and social values.
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