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Norway, survivors still bear scars of Breivik shootings

Published 21/07/2014, 09:11
Norway, survivors still bear scars of Breivik shootings

By Gwladys Fouche

KONGSBERG Norway (Reuters) - Laila Gustavsen sometimes wonders whether meeting Anders Behring Breivik face-to-face would help her to understand.

"I would ask him: 'What made you (do it)?'," she said of the man who shot her daughter twice in the back on July 22, 2011.

"Because at every opportunity he has explained ... the political reasons why he did what he did. What he has not talked about is what made him hold these opinions. Where did it go wrong?"

Then she thinks of all the reasons why it would not be worth it to try.

"He does not deserve that I spend my time on him ... And I don't think you could get an answer."

The fantasy of meeting her daughter's attacker is new for the 40-year-old. Two years ago, when Reuters News followed her over several months to document her life after the assaults

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