Norway police search for camera maybe used to film massacre
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Norwegian police said on Friday they were looking for a video camera that rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik reportedly used on July 22 to film his attacks that killed 77 people.
The video camera 'is something that has been mentioned in his declarations (to police) and in the manifest' the 32-year-old killer posted on the Internet shortly before carrying out his attacks, police prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told reporters.
"We have for the time being not yet found it, but we are looking for it," he added.
His comments followed a number of media reports quoting anonymous survivors of the massacre saying Behring Breivik may have video-recorded his shooting rampage on the island of Utoeya near Oslo that killed 69 people, many of them teenagers.
Eight others died earlier the same day when Behring Breivik set off a car bomb outside government offices in the Norwegian capital.
In his 1,500-page manifesto, Behring Breivik provides a guide and list of equipment needed for carrying out operations in his 'crusade' against a 'Muslim invasion' of Europe and multiculturalism, stressing that the AEE P80 digital camera was vital "for documenting your operation."
He also suggests placing the memory card in an already stamped envelope addressed to different media organisations instead of trying to send the images by email, which he cautions could take too long to download.
So far, no media have acknowledged receiving any such videos from Behring Breivik, and police have not yet found evidence that he used a camera in the attacks.
On Friday, Behring Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad told the Aftenposten daily his client had attempted to call police 10 times from Utoeya in the midst of his shooting rampage with the aim of turning himself in, but that eight of the calls had gone unanswered.
Police refused to comment on the information, only acknowledging that they received at least one call from the killer on the day of the attacks.
On August 3, the Verdens Gang daily published what it said were the words Behring Breivik used during one three-second call to police: "Breivik. Commander. Involved in the anti-communist resistance against Islamisation. Mission accomplished and will surrender to the Delta force."
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