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Norway has unveiled a national memorial honouring the 77 victims of the country’s deadliest peacetime attack, nearly 15 years after the twin terrorist assaults carried out by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik.
The memorial was inaugurated on Sunday in Oslo during a ceremony attended by survivors, bereaved families, Crown Prince Haakon and government officials.
Breivik carried out the attacks on July 22, 2011, first detonating a bomb near government offices in Oslo, killing eight people, before travelling to the island of Utoya, where he shot dead 69 people, most of them teenagers attending a Labour Party youth camp.
Speaking at the event, Merete Stamneshagen, head of a support group for victims and survivors, described the attacks as an assault on both innocent lives and Norway’s democracy.
The memorial, located in Oslo’s renovated government district, features a 12-metre-high mosaic designed by Norwegian artist Matias Faldbakken. Inspired by a bird he observed on Utoya, the artwork depicts a small wading bird and blades of grass reflected in water. The names of all 77 victims are engraved on the monument.
Crown Prince Haakon also visited the newly opened 22 July Centre, a national education and remembrance centre dedicated to the attacks.
Breivik, now 47, was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison, Norway’s maximum sentence, which can be extended indefinitely if authorities determine that he remains a threat to society.
