Mr. Breivik exploded a car bomb in Oslo shortly before going to Utoeya island where the shootings took place last Friday. The deadly explosion wrecked the prime minister's office building.
Mr. Breivik's lawyer says his actions suggest he is out of his mind. Far-right groups across Europe have denounced his attacks.
European Union officials say they will form a team of experts to investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries. The criminal intelligence agency Europol says the team may look at other European nations in the future.
A report this year from Europol said extreme left-wing groups carried out forty-five attacks in Europe last year. It said there were no terrorist attacks by right-wing groups, but extremists were increasingly active on the Internet.
K. Biswas from the New Internationalist magazine says far-right groups have become more influential in Europe in recent years.
K. BISWAS: “You’ve seen parties in Italy, in Denmark, in Holland have grown outside the mainstream conservative electoral vehicles in their countries, and they have had an effect. They have had an effect on immigration. They have had an effect on the language used by mainstream politicians.”
In the Norwegian parliament, the right-wing Progress Party is the second largest party. In Sweden, Democrats joined parliament last year declaring “Keep Sweden Swedish.”
Nigel Inkster is a director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Britain. He says Islamic terrorism is the most serious threat to European security. And, he says, it is much more difficult to investigate than right-wing extremism.
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