Policies. Utøya, an idyllic little island in the Tyrifjord west of Oslo, was five years ago the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack in Nordic history.
today, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) give speeches on island facing the same kind of summer camp that was attacked.
the macabre murder July 22, 2011 shook the whole world.
a annual summer camp organized by the Norwegian labor movement’s youth organization AUF attacked by Anders Behring Breivik, dressed as police shot and killed 69 students and injured over 30 in just over an hour.
Hundreds of young people
the massacre was carried out since the lone perpetrator detonated a bomb in central Oslo that killed eight people and injured over 200.
last year, resumed the AUF camp activities on the island for the first time since the massacre. And this week, hundreds of young people from the Norwegian labor movement’s youth organization AUF gathered at Utøya again, including in the company of the 20th century SSU members.
The theme for this year’s summer camp, the second since the gruesome massacre on the island, “We are the country of the future”.
One of this year’s guests are Stefan Löfven, who on Saturday promised a speech and then the panel discussion along with the Norwegian Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre.
the visit is Löfvens others on Utøya after Breivik’s massacre. Last time Löfven was there, in 2012, he participated in a memorial ceremony as S leader.
Fear and Hope
Before Löfvens visit has Støre, Norwegian opposition leader, week already given speeches on Utøya.
He called Norway’s next Prime Minister of the AUF and gave an emotional speech about fear and hope.
– This is the great dividing line in our time, if we take on the future with fear or with hope, he said, according to news agency NTB.
– fear is not wrong, not indecent and not shameful. Fear is a reality in the lives of many people. And we are doing politics must take it seriously, understand where it comes from, do something to meet, he added.
He pressed during the day while the AUF -ledaren Mani Hussaini, who want to Labor begins to pursue a more aggressive policy of redistribution of tax increases and political promises to the oil industry should be kept away from areas that are not yet exploited, as the Lofoten and Vesterålen, if the Labor Party comes to power.
FACTS
the terrorist attacks in Norway
Just before 15:30 on Friday, July 22, 2011 came the alarm about a big explosion in the government quarter in central Oslo.
Two hours later came a new alarm about a man dressed as a police officer shot the youth on Utøya, where the Labor Party youth organization AUF summer camp held.
in Oslo killed eight people. On Utøya killed 69 people, of which only seven were over 25 years.
Approximately one hour after the second alarm was arrested Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted both attacks. He was sentenced in August 2012 to 21 years ‘storage’, in practice probably a literal life sentence.
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