In the aftermath of the attacks, Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, told a gathering in his capital’s cathedral: “Our response is more democracy, more openness, and more humanity.” He went on in an interview with this newspaper: “It was our democratic, open society that was under attack… it was quite logical to say that the answer was more of what was attacked.” Even the young survivors speak about the importance of treating the massacre as a crime, using existing laws, rather than changing them to appease public fury. “I don’t care about Breivik as an individual,” one of them, Tore Sinding Bekkedal, told ITV this year. “He’s a sad little person who did this to get attention. The important thing is that there is a proper trial and that as much of the attention as possible is given to those who have lost loved ones, and as little as possible to the perpetrator.”
Norway gives a dignified lesson in how to deal with horror
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