(24 Aug 2012) STORYLINE:
A survivor of Norway's worst peacetime attacks said on Friday that he was did not much care about the trial of convicted killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Pers Anders Langerod never attended Breivik's10-week trial, and didn't even watch Friday's verdict in which Breivik was ordered imprisoned for a period between 10 and 21 years, the maximum allowed under Norwegian law.
"I was at work, had some meetings, took a couple of coffees, ate an apple. I don't really care that much," said Langerod, speaking at a central Oslo park away from the court house.
On Friday, a panel of judges declared Breivik sane enough to be held criminally responsible for Norway's worst peacetime attacks.
"The big difference is that he's going to have lunch with grey walls or white walls. So I don't really care, I'm done with this trial," said Langerod.
But Langerod, who survived Breivik's shooting rampage at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island, said he still felt deep anger towards him.
"I don't want to hurt him because I have a problem with violence, now more than ever," Langerod said.
"But I want to yell at him. I want to explain to him what kind of egomaniac mass murderer he is and how he has affected so many people so terribly."
Seventy-seven people were killed in the car bomb and shooting rampage in July last year.
Ultimately though, Langerod believes that Norway has emerged stronger from the trauma in the 13 months since Breivik carried out his attacks.
"We did survive Breivik, and we did better at integrating more immigrants, having more tolerance and more democracy," he said.
"What can be better than showing that Norway has not been affected by your gruesome actions?"
The five-judge panel in the Oslo district court unanimously convicted the 33-year-old Breivik of terrorism and premeditated murder and gave him a sentence of up to 21 years in prison.
It was not clear whether prosecutors would appeal the ruling.
If not, and if Breivik sticks to his word not to appeal a prison term, the legal process for one of the darkest chapters in Norwegian history will have come to a close.
Sentences such as Breivik's can be extended as long as an inmate is considered too dangerous to be released, and legal experts say Breivik will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison.


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