I was sad and withdrawn. The movie at this point transitions into a broad political allegory. 21 years is actually the maximum sentence that can be handed down in Norway for anythingless than genocide or war crimes, but that sentence can be extended and Breivik will likely be in prison for the rest of his life. View. Hanssen's jailers allowed him to watch this movie, but he was so angered by it that he turned it off. It was an intense emotional experience. A new film about Anders Breivik's 2011 mass killing in Norway is both a sweeping political parable and a blown opportunity. 1,486 Likes, 19 Comments - VILJAR HANSSEN (@viljarhanssen) on Instagram: " Anders og Renate " . Hanssen disclosed this information to the Soviets in September 1989 and received a $55,000 payment the next month, equivalent to $120,232 in 2021. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. A: I honestly dont think it has changed much, but the real debates and public conversations surrounding this years markering is very promising. After confirmation by the FBI CART Unit, Sullivan filed a report with the Office of Professional Responsibility requesting the further investigation of Hanssen's attempted hack. Although Hanssen was unaware of it, Ames had already exposed all three agents earlier that year. He suffered near-fatal injuries after being shot five times, ultimately losing an eye and suffering severe impairment of his motor functions. Here we'll break down the differences between the events in Greengrass' film and what actually happened during and after the attack, as well as the meaning of 22 July's quietly powerful ending, which emphasizes survival and perseverance rather than despair. Thanks as always to everyone who makes The Coolest Newspaper On Earth possible! But Breiviks anti-immigrant views are totally wrapped in misogyny; in the manifesto he circulated online he wrote that feminism sought to deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males. Greengrass focuses on his anti-immigrant sentiment to the total exclusion of his anti-feminism. Icepeople is again facingan immediate existential crisis due (of course) to hardships largely inflected by the pandemic. He enrolled in dental school at Northwestern University[11] but switched his focus to business after three years. Raucous teenagers arrive at the socialist Workers Youth League summer camp on the island of Utya, a peaceful scene. But in general I'm more positive and social and value life' (Photo: Andrea Gjestvang/ MOMENT). The point is that right-wing extremism is with us in Europe.. He murdered eight people by planting a bomb in a van outside, After the attack in Oslo, Breivik drove 25 miles to a lake where the ruling Labour Partys youth league were camping on Utoya Island, Dressed as a police officer, he called the innocents to a meeting before opening fire on them - murdering 69 on the island, The remarkable story of how Viljar survived the massacre during a Workers Youth League summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya is being re-told in new movie 22 July, The movie focuses more on the courage of Viljar and other young survivors than it does on the killer, 22 July launched on Netflix on October 10th, Breivik, now 39, was given the maximum sentence available in Norway, which is 21 years in solitary confinement, 2011 island killing spree that left 77 dead, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). He suffered near-fatal injuries after being shot five times, ultimately losing an eye and suffering severe impairment of his motor functions. [36], IT personnel from the National Security Division's IIS Unit were sent to investigate Hanssen's desktop computer after a reported failure. The movie begins with a series of contrasts. [49][50][51], During his final days with the FBI, Hanssen began to suspect something was wrong. [71], The Hanssen spy case is told in Ronald Kessler's book The Secrets of the FBI in chapter 15, "Catching Hanssen," chapter 16, "Breach", and chapter 17, "Unexplained Cash", based in part on interviews with Michael Rochford, who directed the FBI team that eventually caught Hanssen after initially wrongly assuming a CIA officer was the master spy. He even managed to bring laughter to proceedings, joking: I lost this eye, but thats useful. A: A better, more inclusive and more tolerant future. And he doesn't. He's completely alone. Despite having shown his face, disclosed his code name, and revealed his FBI affiliation, Hanssen escaped arrest when the FBI's investigation into the incident did not advance. 'I was certain I would bleed to death. Viljar Hanssen Jurist og politiker Troms Europabevegelsen i Troms og Finnmark, +8 more UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, +1 more Viljar Orumaa Audit Senior at EY - FSO WAM County. We see Breivik taken to his solitary cell, and the door closed and locked behind him. VILJAR HANSSEN (@viljarhanssen) Instagram photos and videos viljarhanssen Follow 336 posts 34.7K followers 700 following VILJAR HANSSEN Politician Jurist, politiker og levemann. Hanssen's section evaluated Soviet agents who volunteered to give intelligence to determine whether they were genuine or re-doubled agents. When he gave an impact statement during Breiviks trial for mass murder and terrorism in 2012, Viljar told how he suffered from anxiety and had been too scared to attend a later youth league event. Greengrass' film splits its focusevenly between Breivik and one of thevictims of the attack, Viljar Hanssen (Jonas Strand Gravli), who was shot five times but survived to bear witness at Breivik's trial. [66] Opus Dei member C. John McCloskey said he also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the Catholic Information Center in downtown Washington. His new job in the FBI's budget office gave him access to information involving many different FBI operations. Viljar Hanssen, then 17, lay defenceless on the ground as he was blasted in the head during the 2011 island killing spree that left 77 dead, but despite the fragment of ammunition that could kill him at any moment,he refuses to be a victim. Ames was officially blamed for giving Polyakov's name to the Soviets, while Hanssen's attempt was not revealed until after his 2001 capture. Dressed as a police officer, he called the innocents to a meeting before opening fire on them. [46][47][48], The FBI surveilled Hanssen and soon discovered he was again in contact with the Russians. The story of Viljar is an apt one for Greengrasss reading of events: that there is more than one kind of political identity available for Norwegian men, and that Viljars is the one that will survive into the future. All denied everything. All rights reserved. People named Viljar include: Viljar Loor (1953-2011), volleyball player Viljar Myhra (born 1996), football player It was important for me to not be a burden for them. After leaving a friend at an airport on February 18, 2001, Hanssen drove to Virginia's Foxstone Park. After the transfer, while on a business visit back to Washington, D.C., he resumed his espionage career. (1999) retells the racist murder of a London teenager. [52], However, Hanssen's suspicions did not stop him from making one more dead drop. This shows me that standing up against racism, promoting solidarity and never forgetting those that lost their lives is still very important. Given his lack of remorse for the killings and his continued dedication to the far-right politics that motivated them, it seems unlikely that he will ever be released. 'My life changed in many ways. She now works at the Norwegian embassy in Sarajevo. Otherwise, it seems as thoughHanssenand his brother's attempted flight from Breivik was recreatedquite accurately in Greengrass' film. "When Anzor Djoukaev, 17, from Lillestrom, came out from his hiding place he was arrested by police and falsely accused of having a part in the massacre. There is nothing about his world view or his arguments or his rhetoric that a mainstream populist right-wing politician does not espouse. In 1999, the FBI even interrogated Kelley, his ex-wife, two sisters, and three children. And he's going to rot there in prison, whereas I- I survived. Six was to be added to the month, day, and time of a designated drop time, so that, for example, a drop scheduled for January 6 at 1:00p.m. would be written as July 12 at 7:00p.m..[61], Despite these efforts at caution and security, Hanssen could sometimes be reckless. These include the loss of one eye, motor impairments, and inoperable bullet shrapnel embedded near his brainstem. Shortly after the release of 22 July he posted about the film on Instagram, saying that while he was not involved in the making of the film, he hoped that it would spark conversations about the dangers of far-right extremism: Lara Rashid, who is played by Seda Witt in the film, was 16 at the time of the attack and lost her older sister in the shooting. He was charged with selling U.S. intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over 22 years. "Je to praktick, protoe teba tmhle nevidm," prohlsil Hanssen v ter ped soudem a ukzal s smvem na vraha. Viljar Hanssen is now in his mid-twenties andstudying at the University ofTroms. These include the loss of one eye, motor impairments, and inoperable bullet shrapnel embedded near his brainstem. A coup detat. The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Hanssen. There have been some moments of true desperation during our 13-year history. Some of the survivors are helping each other, but sadly a lot of the high profile survivors involved have been using the tragedy to further their political careers. I am grateful to have been able to tell their stories, to show the grief and the scars, but also the various forms of the healing process.". By 2011, she was a board member of the school board, the board of city operations and the port authority. Everyone who was on Utoya that day lost someone, and Viljar says: The character is supposed to be me in the film, but it is representative of many victims.. Eight bodies sprawled on the ground in the aftermath of a terror attack. Viljar Hanssen, 27, was a high school student in Longyearbyen when he became one of the most recognizable survivors of the July 22, 2011, massacre at Utya. Posted on 25. It is an important film. May 2012 by Rolf Stange. Of course there are moments of sadness about what has passed. [69], Hanssen frequently visited D.C. strip clubs and spent a great deal of time with a Washington stripper named Priscilla Sue Galey. Hanssen's superiors were not amused and began an investigation. parkering ica maxi flemingsberg; lakritsgranulat eller lakritspulver; tacos tillbehr familjeliv In January 1976, he left the police department to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[4]. They scrambled down a cliff, not quite out of the view of Breivik. Hanna Endresen, 61, Oslo Receptionist in the security department of the Government Administration Services. You are. Breivik replies, Are you sure about that?. Later, he hid a video camera in the bedroom connected via a closed-circuit television line so that Hoschouer could observe the Hanssens from his guest bedroom. This change was likely made because international audiences would be confused by Breivik being given such an apparently light sentence, which may have distracted from the film's ending. One of the survivors of the Utya shooting, Bjorn Magnus Ihler, said that he was satisfied with Breivik'ssentence and added that, "If he is deemed not to be dangerous any more after 21 years, then he should be released Thats how it should work.". His espionage was described by the U.S. Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. May God bless you and your family always. He lost his best friend, he lost an eye, he suffered brain damage, and he lost his ability to ski, snowmobile and engage in many of the other activities he enjoyed in his native Troms County, in northern Norway. However, two cases- the Bloch investigation and the embassy tunnel- remained unsolved. The final two scenes of 22 July reflect this speech in court. Breivik, a twisted loner, had convinced himself that the way to oppose Islam in the Scandinavian country was to kill unarmed civilians. 22 July also conveys the real-life Lippestad's attitude towards the task set out before him: that everyone, even a mass-murderer, is entitled to acompetent defense in order to ensure that justice is properly served. In my personal and professional life trying to understand and learn from what happened will always be important, and I dont think is a contradiction, focusing on the future and trying to learn from what happened. (Shortcut: GoFundMe / website / Vipps at 4151 4638). Furthermore, in the film Breivik is sentenced to indefinite imprisonment in solitary confinement until he is determined not to be a danger to the public, rather than the 21-year prison sentence that was actually handed down - though in practice they basically mean the same thing. He was eventually placed on administrative leave, where he remained falsely accused until after Hanssen was arrested. Personally Ive been focusing on the future since the day I woke up from my coma and Ill be doing a lot of living afterwords. British director Greengrass used court transcripts of the trial so actors in his film could deliver the exact words said by both Breivik and the survivors in court. Viljar (Jonas Strand Gavli) instantly becomes the focus. And he doesn't. And when you shot them and left me alone on the beach, I didn't know if I was living or dying. When O'Neill could briefly obtain Hanssen's PDA and have agents download and decode its encrypted contents, the FBI had decisive evidence. 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