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May 6, 2017 · The bomb threat was real in many areas, and shelters and black-out curtains became a part of everyday life. In addition, there were a number of regulations and commands that limited people’s freedom of action and movement. Photo from PA-1209 NTBs krigsarkiv, Ue, L101, Lines (the photo shows a food line at the crack of dawn on a rainy morning ...
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On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik detonated a car bomb in Oslo, killing eight people and injuring 209. Less than two hours later, he attacked a summer camp on the island of ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Norway’s capital was quieter than usual on July 22 2011, a wet Friday during the summer holidays. At 3.25pm a bomb hidden inside a van exploded outside the prime minister’s office, shattering ...
The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 . [1] The bomb was placed inside a van [14] next to the tower block housing the office of the then Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. [15] The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people, 12 severely.
- A National Tragedy
- The 10th Anniversary in 2021
- The Aftermath and Trial in Oslo
- The Struggling Survivors of Utøya
- The Memorials
- 22 July in Books and Film
It's hard to believe it's been so long since the events of Oslo and Utøya. They were some of the first things I wrote abouton this blog, taking place less than three months after I moved here from the UK. I learned a lot about my new home country in the weeks that followed. In 2021, the 10th anniversary refocused attention on the incident, the afte...
A few years ago, Norway took a collective look back at the events as the tenth anniversary thrust the events back into the national spotlight. Various events were planned to commemorate the terror attacks in both Oslo and on Utøya island. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)announcedthat the Norwegian Police would be armed for the day itself...
Norway's immediate response surprised and impressed many around the globe. Then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg summed things up by saying, “our response is more democracy, more openness and more humanity.” The criminal trial began nine months later in April 2012, with a media circus camped outside throughout. Breivik did not deny the events, so mu...
In 2020, researchers from the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies published results from the latest in a series of studies on the Utøya survivors. It found that one-third of the survivors suffer from symptoms equivalent to or very close to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Almost half of the participants in the study sti...
The original proposal for a striking memorial that would feature a gash through the island was finally abandoned several years ago following public disagreement. Opposition from neighbouring communities has continued, but has not failed to stop the construction of a national memorial at the Utøya quay. However, the memorial wasn't finished in time ...
The events of 2011 have been recorded in various book and film projects over the past decade. On Netflix, 22 Julyfocuses on the story of one survivor struggling to come to terms with the incident. It would have been very easy to focus such a movie on the tragic events on the island. While that's of course featured, the film focuses in much more on ...
Jul 22, 2021 · Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb attack and gun rampage. The July 22 attacks left Norway, a small, close-knit ...
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Apr 17, 2012 · A massive blast shook the centre of Oslo at 15:26 (13:26 GMT) on Friday 22 July 2011, blowing out the windows of the prime minister's offices and damaging the finance and oil ministries.
