A Norwegian Tragedy

Table of Contents

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

1: The Explosion

2: Bacardi Razz

Skaugum

The Consumer Zombie

‘I'm Going to Kill You!’

The Herostratic Tradition

The West End

3: A West End Family

‘The Fatherless Civilisation’

A Suspicious Smile

The Dark Sources

The Cats of Ayia Napa

4: Morning on Utøya

Utopia on the Tyrifjord

Utøya at Its Best

‘We Must Be Vigilant Now’

Stop Them with Spirit

5: Morg the Graffiti Bomber

King of the Number 32 Bus

A School with Class

The Bomber from Ris

Growing Pains in the Nineties

The Aesthetic of Destruction

The Tåsen Gang

The Tadpole Mafia

The End of Morg

6: The ‘Mother of the Nation’ Returns to Utøya

Wearing Bano Rashid's Wellies

11 September 2001

Ideas That Kill

Occidentalism, Norwegian Style

Mecca

7: Andrew Berwick and Avatar Syndrome

The Entrepreneur

Andersnordic, Conservatism and Conservative

Avatar Syndrome

The Counter-Jihadist Avatar

The Online Prophets of Doom

Critics of Islam and Their Norwegian Godfather

Home to Mother

‘It's Going to Be the Event of the Year’

8: The Safest Place in Norway

Shock

Planet Youngstorget

North Along the E18

The Information Meeting

Camping Life

Faces

9: The Book Launch

A Declaration of Independence

Conspiracy and Castration

The Suicide Note

Hatred of Women

10: Survivors

The Ferry Landing

Ida Spjelkavik

Arshad Mubarak Ali

Stine Renate Håheim

Anzor Djoukaev

11: Rescuers

Heroism on the Tyrifjord

Allan Søndergaard Jensen

Anne-Berit Stavenes

Erik Øvergaard

12: What Is Happening in Norway?

Shooting in Progress

Terror in Buskerud?

What the Camera Saw

When Fear Takes Over

The Captain and His Ship

13: Anders Behring Breivik's Seventy-Five Minutes on Utøya

The Killings at the Main Building, 17:17–17:22

The Killings in the Café Building and by the Love Path, 17:22–17:44

From the Schoolhouse to Stoltenberget, 17:44–18:10

From the Pump House to the Arrest, 18:10–18:34

The Perfect Executioner

Evening on Utøya

14: Hatred

The Utøya Generation

The Heart of Darkness

The Lost Child

Acknowledgements

Index