Norway prime minister urges nation to ‘embrace freedom’

Jens Stoltenberg speaks at memorial service as first funerals for the 76 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik are held The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has told a remembrance service for the 76 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik that his country had been “struck by evil”, but urged his countrymen to respond by embracing democracy and freedom. Speaking as the first funerals were held for victims of Breivik’s bomb and shooting attack, Stoltenberg said the 32-year-old’s actions were “an attack against political engagement … an attack on our democracy”. He added: “We have memorials in churches and in mosques, in parliament and in the government headquarters, on the streets and in squares … Evil has brought out the best in us. Hatred engenders love.” While the prime minister was speaking, police questioned Breivik for the second time. Officers said they had now identified all of those killed in the

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