Roses, not anger, has been the typical response to Breivik’s terror
The 22 July twin terror attacks in Oslo and at the Utoeya island shocked Norway and the world. The self-confessed extreme-right terrorist Anders Breivik will be sentenced in August. But one year after he killed 77 mainly young people in a car bombing and shooting spree, people in Norway will be looking back and again try to understand what happened. And they will come together to remember those who died and to try to live up to their promise of safeguarding the open, multicultural society which Breivik says he despises. Here is the first of two features I’ve done for Monocle magazine and online radio looking back at what happened that day and in the year which followed: