Støre Warns Hatred and Extremism Still Threaten Norway

Right-wing extremist terror rooted in thoughts and ideas remains in Norway and the world – and is still a threat 14 years after the terrorist attacks in Oslo and on Utøya. This is warned by Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) in his memorial speech for the 77 people who were murdered on July 22, 2011.

» Published: July 22 2025

Støre Warns Hatred and Extremism Still Threaten Norway
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What we thought could never happen again, it can happen again. The hatred has not disappeared. Extremism has not disappeared, said Støre on the island of Utøya.

In his speech, the Prime Minister talked about how several survivors receive hate letters.

It is shocking and terrible. You should know that you have our support. It hurts and threatens our democracy and freedom of speech, he said and brought up the hatred against "the others" that thrives on the net.

We must meet it with knowledge, with courage, and with clarity. Not silence it to death, but stand up against it, again and again.

Now 46-year-old Anders Behring Breivik murdered 69 people in an act during the Labour Party's youth league AUF's summer camp on the island of Utøya in the summer of 2011. On the same day, he detonated a bomb in the government quarters in Oslo, which cost eight people their lives.

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