Breivik tells dad: Visit me when you’re a fascist

THE father of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has said he fears his son is becoming even more extreme and dangerous in prison.

Anders Behring Breivik is serving a 21-year jail sentence. Picture: Getty

In his first news conference since the attacks on 22 July, 2011, that killed 77 people, Jens Breivik said yesterday he had requested to visit his son at the Oslo area prison where he is serving a 21-year sentence that could be extended indefinitely.

But the convicted terrorist and right-wing fanatic rebuffed him in a letter, saying his father had to adopt a “fascist” ideology for them to have any contact.

“The letter scared me,” the elder Breivik told reporters in Oslo in connection with the launch of his book My Fault? “I think he’s just becoming more and more extreme. Maybe he’s becoming more dangerous, too. I don’t know.”

A self-described “militant nationalist” on a crusade to rid Europe of Muslims, Anders Behring Breivik set off a powerful bomb that killed eight people in Oslo’s government district. He then went on a shooting rampage on Utoeya island, killing 69 people – mostly teenagers – at the annual summer camp of a left-leaning youth group.

“I think a lot about those who lost their lives and those who were injured,” Jens Breivik said. “I wish I could ask for forgiveness on Anders’ behalf.”

In a series of letters to media organisations, the mass killer claimed he had abandoned his armed struggle and regained faith in democracy after the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party’s election success in Greece. He said he wants to found his own fascist party from prison.

“As an ex-militant, my heart cries for the barbarity that I carried out,” he wrote in a letter dated 18 August this year. “But mostly I’m sorry that barbarity is useful in the struggle for democracy.”

He said he would be prepared to apologise to the families of his victims, but only after the “political exclusion” of fascists in Norway ends.

Anders Breivik grew up with his mother in Oslo and had only intermittent contact with his father, a Norwegian diplomat who remarried and moved to Paris.

Jens Breivik said he regretted losing a custody battle for his four-year-old son after social workers expressed concern about his well-being.

“I could have influenced him in a positive direction. But it didn’t happen,” he said.

A Norwegian court ruled in August 2012 that mass killer Breivik was sane and sentenced him to 21 years in jail.