22 July: Anders Behring Breivik and the Attacks That Changed Norway
On a Friday in July 2011, a bomb tore through Oslo’s government quarter. Two hours later, a man in a police uniform stepped onto the island of Utøya, where hundreds of teenagers were at a Labour Party youth camp. By nightfall, 77 people were dead — most of them young.
Host Alexander Lawson reconstructs the day Norway lost its sense of safety: the blast in Regjeringskvartalet, the hour of killing on Utøya, the slow police response, the trial that asked whether Anders Behring Breivik was sane, and a country that answered terror with roses instead of revenge.
This episode is about the victims…
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