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The index finger? It didn’t trigger the terrorist’s mind. What killed Sharidyn? The bullets? They didn’t pull the trigger. At 5:29pm, Breivik put two bullets in Sharidyn’s back. Starstruck and joyous, the 14-year-old called her mother, announcing that she now had a rival for her daughter’s greatest hero. That afternoon, she met ‘the mother of the nation’, the former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. On 22 July, Sharidyn woke up in a purple and blue tent she had put up herself. She had recently started her own blog, ‘Purple in Style’, named after her favourite colour, and planned to be an international fashion designer. And there he embarked on an hour-long shooting spree, killing 69 people, 55 of them teenagers.īreivik’s youngest victim was Sharidyn ‘Sissi’ Meegan Ngahiwi Svebakk-Bøhn, who turned 14 five days earlier. He headed to Utøya, the heart-shaped island where youth members of the Norwegian Labour Party were gathered for their annual summer camp. When he learned that the explosion had not destroyed the office of the prime minister, he set off in my direction – passing just yards away from the café – dressed as a police officer. The blue-eyed terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, was one of us.Īfter the bomb went off, Breivik sat in his car and listened to the radio. In fact, the perpetrator was closer to home: a blond, 32-year-old Norwegian man from the capital’s affluent west end.

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On TV and online, pundits immediately began speculating that Al-Qaeda was responsible. The news was filled with reports that Norway’s high-rise government quarter had suffered serious damage from a 900-kilo car bomb. It was a gloomy Friday afternoon, 22 July 2011, 3:25pm. When the bomb exploded, I was at a café outside Oslo reading on my phone.

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