Breivik refuses to plead guilty for attacks

THE anti-Muslim militant who killed 77 people in Norway on July 22, shattering a nation known for its open society, acknowledged carrying out the massacre but refused to plead guilty in his first public hearing since the attacks.

Anders Behring Breivik, speaking yesterday at a court just two blocks from where he detonated a huge home-made bomb before shooting 69 people at the ruling Labour Party’s summer camp, also rejected the court’s authority to hear his case.

“I am a military commander in the Norwegian resistance movement and Knights Templar Norway. Regarding the competence (of the court), I object to it because you received your mandate from organisations that support hate ideology (and) because it supports multiculturalism,” Breivik told the court.