On 22nd July 2011, Ander Breivik, killed eight people in a bomb attack in Norway’s capital city Oslo before going on a shooting rampage on the island of Utøya, killing 69 people attending a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp.
Summer camp on #Utoya island starting tomorrow.The 1st since #Breivik massacre 4years ago. http://t.co/OQ6aQcfoZl pic.twitter.com/o6piG2iXd2
— Bruno Boelpaep (@BrunoBoelpaep) August 6, 2015
Breivik was a member of the conservative anti-immigration Norwegian Progress Party. He was known to also have links to the English Defence League, a far right extremist group in Britain offering vigilante style policies over politics on issues surrounding immigration.
The people massacre by Anders Breivik in Norway thrust the growing negative reaction in Europe towards multiculturalism and immigration into the world’s spotlight. In 2014, the European Union elections saw an unprecedented number of seats won by right-wing parties.
Professor Florian Schui, author of Austerity: The Great Failure, was reported in Global, the International Briefing as suggesting the success of the far right was down to failed austerity measures in Europe.
"The failure to resolve this European-wide crisis has given rise to this European-wide reaction that has got people to vote for the far right."
Earlier this year, it was reported that the right-wing extremist group North Front was again attempting to recruit more people from its bases in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
The Police Security Service stepped up its operations in Norway following the increased levels of propaganda from the group and concerns that the activity by the Swedish branch, Motståndsrørslene, was having more of an influence on Norway.
But four years on from the 2011 attack in Norway and in the face of far right extremism, the summer camp on the Island of Utøya is set to go ahead. This year, the theme will be International Solidarity.
AUF President Mani Hussaini told Sveriges Radio: "We will continue to celebrate and fight for the same ideals that were attacked on July 22nd 2011."
