{"id":18647,"date":"2012-05-29T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=18647"},"modified":"2012-05-29T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:42:57","slug":"mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik-had-unusually-close-relationship-with-mum-norwegian-court-hears-18647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik-had-unusually-close-relationship-with-mum-norwegian-court-hears-18647\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Killer Anders Behring Breivik Had Unusually Close Relationship With Mum, Norwegian Court Hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Anders-Breivik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Anders-Breivik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik had an unusually close relationship with his mother and friends thought he was afraid of coming out as gay, a court heard today.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Two of the 33-year-old&#8217;s friends gave evidence at the court in Oslo in which they described the right-wing extremist as obsessed with how he looked.<\/p>\n<p>Four friends were due to testify in the trial today and a statement from Breivik&#8217;s mother, Wenche Behring, will also be read out.<\/p>\n<p>One of the friends said he thought Breivik was depressed or was a closet homosexual after he moved back in with his mum in 2006, <em>Dagbladet\u00a0<\/em>newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The witness said, &#8220;I think they had a more friendly relationship than a mother and son normally have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court also heard Breivik had nose surgery so he could have a more &#8220;Aryan&#8221; nose. Breivik claimed he had the surgery because he was attacked by a Pakistani man, but the former friends said they could not recall the attack. He also used powder on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Both former friends spoke of Breivik&#8217;s obsession with playing computer games in his 20s, and said he would often shut out friends to play them for long periods at a time.<\/p>\n<h2>Breivik killed 69 people on Utoya island and another eight after bombing a government building in Oslo on July 22.<\/h2>\n<p>He confessed to the killings, but refuses to plead guilty claiming the shootings were &#8220;cruel but necessary&#8221; to stop the Norwegian Labour Party&#8217;s &#8220;multicultural experiment&#8221; and the &#8220;Muslim invasion&#8221; of Norway and Europe.<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik had an unusually close relationship with his mother and friends thought he was afraid of coming out as gay, a court heard today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[18839,18836,22578,18837,22552,16675,22657,22577,23864,22579,16679,16676,16753,23863,22580,23866,23865,22658],"class_list":["post-18647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-anders-behring-breivik","tag-anders-breivik","tag-anders-breivik-norway","tag-anders-breivik-norway-massacre","tag-norway-killer-anders-breivik","tag-norway-massacre","tag-norway-massacre-breivik","tag-norway-massacre-trial","tag-norway-muslim-invasion","tag-norway-oslo","tag-norway-shootings","tag-norway-tragedy","tag-norway-utoya","tag-norwegian-mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik","tag-oslo-norway","tag-utoya-island-norway","tag-utoya-massacre-anders-breivik","tag-utoya-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}