'There's someone shooting just outside. He's coming in': Terrifying phone call of survivor of Breivik's massacre is played to court


The terrified young woman's voice is little more than a whimper.

'He's inside,' she says, rapid gunfire and screaming clearly audible in the background.

'There is shooting all the time – I'm in the toilet, I've locked myself in a booth,' says Renate Taarnes during a frantic three-minute phone call to police.

Defiant: Anders Behring Breivik delivers a Nazi-style salute in court yesterday

Defiant: Anders Behring Breivik delivers a Nazi-style salute in court yesterday

'There's someone shooting, walking around shooting.' Then, during a brief spell of silence, she says: 'He's just outside. He's coming, he's coming, quickly.'

Several relatives of the victims left the courtroom before the haunting tape of the call from the lavatory block of the main building on Utoya was played.

Renate, 22, escaped Breivik's killing spree on the island but her boyfriend was among the 67 slaughtered at the summer youth camp. Prosecutors gave a detailed breakdown of the 77 minutes the gunman spent rampaging around the island as terrified youngsters tried to flee.

Breivik twice phoned police claiming he wished to surrender – and twice carried on firing, committing another 27 murders.

The massacre began after Breivik, having triggered the bomb outrage in the centre of Oslo, headed to the youth camp at Utoya – an island on a lake 25 miles from the capital.

Dressed as a policeman, he demanded a ferry take him less than half a mile across to the tiny island where 560 people were enjoying the Norwegian summer. At 17.17 he stepped ashore and four minutes later the killing began, with three people shot dead near the main building on Utoya.

The red dots indicate the dead on Utoya island while the yellow indicate the wounded. The 2's indicate being wounded twice and the x indicates a victim who later died from the gunshot wounds

The red dots indicate the dead on Utoya island while the yellow indicate the wounded. The 2's indicate being wounded twice and the x indicates a victim who later died from the gunshot wounds

Tragic day: Police have now pieced together the series of events on Utoya island

Seven more were killed near the  island café. At 17.26 Breivik entered the café as youngsters were desperately trying to escape the island but, as prosecutor Svein Holden explained, the 'water was a natural barrier'.

At this point, as Renate Taarnes desperately rang the police, seven people died in the Little Hall of the café and six were injured. One girl was shot and survived, only to be fatally wounded later.

A minute later Breivik entered the café's Big Hall, killing five, briefly leaving to fire randomly outside before re-entering and killing another person in a corridor.

Victims: Just some of the 77 killed by Breivik in a day of carnage last year

Victims: Just some of the 77 killed by Breivik in a day of carnage last year

At 17.29 he left the café and moved towards Lover's Path, where ten were mown down on the path and another five killed and ten injured on the cliff below.

Two were killed in woodland before Breivik triggered two smoke grenades and fired at vessels approaching the pier on Utoya.

At 18.00, using a mobile phone he had found, the gunman made his first call to police. Breivik listened impassively as the court played a tape of the message: 'My name is Anders Behring Breivik, of the Norwegian anti-communistic resistance movement. I am at Utoya and I wish to surrender.'

But in the next few minutes, he killed another 22.

At 18.24, he phoned police again and offered to surrender, before killing another five. At 18.30, armed police landed on Utoya and by 18.34 Breivik's killing spree was over.

Crime scene: The white van was believed to have been driven onto the island of Utoya by the gunman who then opened fire on groups of children attending a summer camp

Crime scene: The white van was believed to have been driven onto the island of Utoya by the gunman who then opened fire on groups of children attending a summer camp

Anders Behring Breivik walks with a gun in hand among bodies on Utoya

Anders Behring Breivik walks with a gun in hand among bodies on Utoya

Teenagers on the Norwegian holiday island of Utoya had to 'swim for their lives' and hide in trees when the gunman fired indiscriminately at them

Terror: Teenagers on the Norwegian holiday island of Utoya had to 'swim for their lives' and hide in trees when Breivik fired indiscriminately at them

No remorse for 77 victims of guns and bomb as Breivik goes on trial

By CHRISTIAN GYSIN in Oslo

From Anders Behring Breivik there was no apology, certainly no remorse.in Oslo

In dark suit and gold tie, the Norwegian mass murderer – a smile playing on his lips – walked into court yesterday oozing defiance.

Aware that the eyes of world's media were upon him, the far-Right extremist waited for police to remove his handcuffs before performing a closed-fist, Nazi-style salute for the cameras.

Defiant: Breivik then pumped his arm out, in what is believed to be a far-right salute, before saying he did not recognise the authority of the court

Defiant: Breivik then pumped his arm out, in what is believed to be a far-right salute, before saying he did not recognise the authority of the court

Breivik smirked at footage of his devastating bomb attack which claimed eight lives in the centre of Oslo last summer.

He was nonchalant as prosecutors listed graphic details of how 69 victims, mainly teenagers, died during his gun rampage on the island of Utoya that same day in July.

At one point during the first day of his ten-week trial he broke down and wept – but not for his innocent victims. His eyes welled up as a 12-minute video of his own deranged right-wing 'manifesto' was shown. It is accompanied by an 1,800-page document in which he calls for an end to 'Muslim infiltration of Europe' and the multiculturalism he so despises.

The first 80 minutes of proceedings at Oslo District Court were taken up with naming those he killed on July 22 last year.

A man lies injured in the road amid wreckage from the blast as emergency service personnel rush to help him

Carnage: A man lies injured in the road amid wreckage from the Oslo blast as emergency service personnel rush to help him

An impassive Breivik simply sat and stared at court paperwork before him.

There was no flicker of emotion from the 33-year-old self-confessed killer as details were given of the horrific injuries suffered by those who died after he planted a van bomb in the centre of the Norwegian capital.

The sickening list of pistol and gunshot wounds suffered by those on the island of Utoya, where he went after the bombing, left him similarly untroubled.

Such was the horror of the graphic descriptions of their injuries that Norwegian TV, broadcasting proceedings live to the nation, blanked out the details.

The court was shown pictures of Breivik wearing paramilitary uniforms and posing with the guns he would use to kill so many innocent victims.

At the start of the trial he conceded he was behind the bombing and shootings which left 77 dead but added: 'I admit to the acts – but not criminal guilt.'

He claims the attacks were necessary to protect Norway from being taken over by Muslims.

The dropout

Breivik was an Oslo teenager living with his mother when he dropped out of secondary school in 1997.

He began working for a telesales firm in its customer service department but several attempts to start business ventures failed.

Breivik finally made some money when he started a business called Diploma.com in 2002, selling false educational certificates, giving him enough money to move out of his mother's flat and bankroll his massacre.

The Knights Templar

He told police he was a resistance fighter in a far-right militant group modelled on the medieval Knights Templar, who fought during the Crusades.

Officers could not find any such organisation – despite Breivik claiming he even travelled to London for a meeting – and the prosecutor Svein Holden told the court: 'In our opinion, such a network does not exist.'

Between 2006 and 2007, Breivik became obsessed with the online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

The bomb factory

As Breivik became immersed in his 'crusade' to rid Norway of Muslims he began purchasing police uniforms and badges, guns and ammunition, and bomb ingredients.

He spent more than £25,000 on 11 credit cards. Last year he rented a farm 100 miles north of Oslo, where he registered himself as a business cultivating 'root and beet' items. This enabled him to order vast amounts of fertiliser to make his van bomb.

The Oslo blast

A week before the atrocity Breivik rented two vans from an Avis outlet in Oslo – a Volkswagen and a smaller Fiat Duplo. The VW was loaded with explosives and the Fiat was his transport to Utoya. On July 22 he posted his 'manifesto' on the internet using a computer in a small room at his mother's home.

The court was shown CCTV footage of Breivik parking the larger van, containing a 2,000lb bomb, outside the entrance to the offices of the prime minister and minister of justice at 3.17pm.

After lighting a fuse with a burn time of seven minutes he was seen walking away towards his getaway car.

In the moments before the explosion 32-year-old blast victim Jon Vegard Lervag was seen walking towards the back of the van. There were gasps in the court as the screen filled with a yellow fireball.

As the devastating blast and the death of the innocent passer-by shown was on screen, Breivik looked on impassively, merely raising his eyebrows as the bomb went off.

Roll call of death

Reciting the names of the Oslo and Utoya victims took court prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh more than 80 minutes. Among the eight who died in and around the government building was 61-year-old Hanne Marie Orvik Endresen.

She had been in the reception area and suffered sickening injuries to her intestine and abdomen.

But it was the sheer detail of what happened when Breivik got to the island and began to kill the young Labour party supporters that will stick in the memory.

The youngest victim was 14-year-old Sharidyn Svebbak-Bohn who was shot in the lungs and chest by Breivik.

She had been trying to shelter on an escarpment at the water's edge.

Moments earlier she had heard the screams of 17-year-old Sondre Dale who was shot four times through the throat and chest.

In the café on the island 18-year-old Bendik Ellingsen was shot a total of eight times – with bullets also entering his head twice.

Another café victim was Aleksander Eriksen,16, shot six times in the head.

One victim who thought he might escape Breivik was 16-year-old Andreas Gronnesby, but as he ran away he fell off a cliff near the island's West Point. He was found dead in the water with a fractured pelvis.

Hakon Odegaard, 17, also tried to swim from the island to escape Breivik's bullets. He was found drowned. 

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