Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik Behring made his second court appearance on Friday that relatives of 69 people he shot last month came to the island where the massacre took place.
Breivik has admitted killing 77 people, July 22, including eight in a bomb attack in Oslo, which has destroyed the seat of the Norwegian government and damaged surrounding buildings.
Court on Friday in Oslo, on the conditions of detention Breivik, was held in camera at the request of police investigators, who say they want to avoid contact Breivik possible accomplices. Police said they believe acted alone Breivik.
The murderer asked to wear a white tie and tails at the hearing to “show that he took seriously the court proceedings,” according to court documents, but his request was refused on the grounds that it would be “worrying and unnecessary offensive “.
The police had requested an extension of the plan allows them to keep Breivik in isolation. A limit of four weeks for the isolation ends on Monday. Police said that his isolation is to help them discover what happened.
The court’s decision was due Friday. According to Norwegian regulations, Breivik will probably remain in jail until he goes to trial within a year, but the conditions under which it takes place at some point may be relaxed.
Some 40 kilometers (25 miles), about 500 relatives of victims gathered on the island of Utoeya to mourn and to listen to police and Red Cross representatives exactly where and how they died.
Arriving in the rain in a pontoon boat built specifically for family and close friends have slowly across the island.
On Saturday, around 1,000 people expected to visit the island where the survivors and their relatives to return before a national day of remembrance across the country Sunday.
“Going to the island to help them make sense of what happened, will help to achieve it, because until then it can seem very unreal,” Atle Dyregrov psychologist, who organized a lot of professional help to victims and their relatives , told Reuters.
“Looking at the facts is often less frightening than the fantasies they have. The fantasy you can eat inside, it helps to see how it looks.”
Police have released the full transcript on Thursday, two phone calls to the police while filming Breivik, especially adolescents, Utoeya.
In the first, he identifies himself as a “commander” of the “anti-communist resistance Norwegian” and expressed a desire to “surrender” before the call is disconnected.
In the second, Breivik said he wants to go, now that it has “completed its operation”.
The police tried to call Breivik, but he did not answer the phone. At the same time Utoeya relatives and people made frantic calls to the police to say they are fired. The police told to be quiet and play dead.
After the attacks, Norway, the police have been criticized for the way he responded to a shooting.
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