Norway massacre police say killer acted alone

Norwegian police said yesterday they are confident that Anders Behring Breivik acted on his own in terror attacks last year that killed 77 people, and found no evidence that he belonged to a Europe-wide anti-Muslim network.

Three officers who testified at Breivik’s trial told the court they found no proof of anyone else being complicit in Breivik’s plans or helping him in any way in the 22 July bomb attack in central Oslo and the subsequent shooting spree at a youth camp on an island.

Chief investigator Kenneth Wilberg said police were sure of their findings and that they also found no proof that Breivik belonged to Knights Templar, a far-right network, as claimed by the killer.

After Breivik surrendered on the island of Utoya, where 69 people were massacred, he told police he was a resistance fighter in a militant group modelled after the Knights Templar – a Christian order that fought during the Crusades.