Friday, May 11, 2012

Victim's Family Member Throws Shoe at Anders Behring Breivik During Trial

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The trial of Anders Behring Breivik was interrupted briefly by a family member of a victim who hurled a shoe at the confessed mass killer and yelled "go to hell" before being escorted from the court room.

The shoe attack, which came as a coroner presented more autopsy reports on the mostly-young victims of the July massacre at Utoya island was followed by applause, "bravos" and tears among onlookers in the courtroom, and led to a temporary suspension of proceedings on the 17th day of the trial.

The black shoe did not hit Breivik but landed on one of his lawyers, Vibeke Hein Baera, who sits between the accused and the onlookers.

"Luckily, it was just a shoe," Hein Baera said.

The attacker, a man of Iraqi origin whose brother was one of the 69 people Breivik shot dead on Utoya on July 22, was quickly brought under control by security guards and escorted out of the courtroom as he continued to shout in English: "Go to Hell!"

When the proceedings resumed a few minutes later, Breivik addressed the onlookers. » | Friday, May 11, 2012