Norway Opens New Memorial for 2011 Terror Attack
- Norway unveiled a permanent memorial in Oslo honoring the 77 victims of the 2011 terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik, the deadliest peacetime massacre in the country’s history.
- The memorial, called Upholding and created by artist Matias Faldbakken, features a 12-metre-high mosaic of a bird native to Utoya Island, with the names and ages of all victims engraved.
- Survivors, bereaved relatives, Crown Prince Haakon, and government officials attended the unveiling ceremony held days before the attack's 15th anniversary and visited the nearby 22 July Centre dedicated to the attacks.
- Breivik was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison, Norway's maximum sentence, which can be extended if he remains a threat; his legal challenges to imprisonment have been unsuccessful.
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This was the intention of Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian neo-Norwegian who launched his attack on 22 July 2011 first with a bomb in the centre of Oslo and then carrying out a carnage among the young people who had gathered for a summer camp in the island of Utøya, organized by the Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking, the youth organization of the Party [...] L'articolo The need of Norway to remember the massacre of Utøya: 15 years after the massacre…
Norway unveils new memorial for victims of 2011 terror attack
Norway has unveiled a permanent memorial in Oslo dedicated to the 77 victims of the country's deadliest peacetime terror attack carried out far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, just days before the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.
Norway opens permanent Oslo memorial 15 years after Breivik’s deadly terror attacks
The “Upholding” memorial in Oslo honours the 77 people killed in Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 attacks, combining a 300,000-tile mosaic and industrial steel structure as a symbol of democracy’s resilience
15 years after the attacks of the extreme right-wing assassin Anders Behring Breivik, a monument to the 77 victims has been inaugurated in Norway's capital Oslo.
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