Norway Shooter Uses Facebook To Share Manifesto
The last act by alleged Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik was to check in with his more than 7,000 friends on Facebook.
The last thing alleged Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik did before embarking on his shooting spreee was to check in with his more than 7,000 friends on Facebook.
We think that’s an unusually large friend list for a murderer — don’t killers tend to have few to no friends? Even more unusual, the BBC claims the killer only set up his Facebook page on July 17. Huh?
Assuming this profile really belonged to Brevik and not an impostor, the final post reveals some important clues regarding the extent of the lengthy planning that went into the rampage and the degree to which he wanted to control his image following his assumed capture.
Though his profile is no longer active, news accounts from Time claim that Breivik posted on Facebook a 1,516-page manifesto entitled, “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” that reveals his extreme right wing and anti-Muslim views.
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