OSLO – Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik, who gunned down 77 young people last summer to protest at Muslim immigration to Europe, told Court officials during trial Monday that he could tell the ideology of his prospective massacre victims by looking at them, and tried to spare one who appeared “right-wing”.
“Certain people look more leftist than others,” Breivik explained during trial, now on day six in Norway, explaining how he targeted “Marxists” with his rifle and pistol while passing over a young man he thought looked conservative. “This person … appeared right-wing, that was his appearance. That’s the reason I didn’t fire any shots at him.”
“I remember him pointing the gun at me for quite a long time before he took it down, turned and walked away,” said Adrian Pracon, the 22-year-old whose life Breivik spared because he ‘appeared’ right-wing.
Breivik maintains that his victims were “traitors” whose multi-culturalist views acted as a gateway to a Muslim invasion of Europe.