OSLO: Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik wants to address an Oslo court after it hands down its verdict against him, and is writing an autobiography detailing how he prepared for his horrific attacks, his lawyers said yesterday.
The Oslo district court is to announce Friday whether the 33-year-old right-wing extremist will be sent to prison or a closed psychiatric ward for the July 22, 2011 attacks that killed 77 people.
"He thought about what he wanted to say to the judges and so has prepared a few lines for every outcome," Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad told the daily newspaper Aftenposten.
It remains however uncertain if Breivik will be allowed to make any remarks on Friday.
During his 10-week trial that concluded in June, the court was wary of giving Breivik a platform to express his Islamophobic and anti-multicultural ideology, but on several occasions allowed him to speak at length.
On July 22, Breivik set off a car bomb outside the government offices in Oslo, killing eight people, before going to the island of Utoeya, northwest of the capital, where he spent more than an hour gunning down another 69 people, mostly teenagers, attending a Labour Party youth camp.
Breivik has confessed to the killings but his 10-week trial was one of the most compelling in Norway's history as the court tried to delve into his mind to determine whether he is sane or not.
Another of Breivik's lawyers, Tord Jordet, told the tabloid Verdens Gang that his client is working on a sort of autobiography, which would contain details on how he prepared for the attacks and revelations about the mysterious Knights Templar organization.
The book would focus on his life as of 2002, when Breivik claims he began his ideological crusade as part of the Knights Templar, though police have never been able to confirm the existence of the network of far-right militants that Breivik claims to have founded in London.
