FAMILY BACKGROUND:IN AN interview with the Swedish tabloid Expressen, Anders Breivik's father, Jens, said yesterday that he wished his son had taken his own life.
“I don’t feel like his father,” Mr Breivik said. “How could he just stand there and kill so many innocent people and just seem to think that what he did was OK? He should have taken his own life, too.”
Jens Breivik was an economist at the Norwegian embassy in London and had already been married and had three children when he met Anders’s mother, Wenche Behring, a nurse living in the city with her daughter Elisabeth from a previous relationship.
Within a year of the boy’s birth, in February 1979, the couple had split. Jens Breivik remained in London and Ms Behring moved back to Oslo with Anders and his elder half-sister. There she married a Norwegian army major and settled in Oslo. His father married a fellow embassy worker, Tove Overmo, and moved to Paris.
Father and son appeared to have got on during the early years but drifted apart when the boy reached adolescence. He is said to have stopped seeing his father in 1995.
Several newspaper reports have described Breivik as a “mummy’s boy”, claiming he had few friends, no serious girlfriends, and had lived with his mother, who is now 64, until two years ago, when he was 30.
While close to Ms Behring, he is said to have railed against her liberal views. Breivik wrote that his parents supported the Labour party and that his mother was a moderate feminist. He wrote: “I do not approve of the super-liberal, matriarchal upbringing as it completely lacked discipline and has contributed to feminising me to a certain degree.”
His descriptions of his stepmother, Tove, who worked at the embassy in Paris dealing with applications from immigrants, were even more chilling. He wrote that she was “very intelligent” but obviously “a traitor” and a willing participant in the “indirect genocide of Norwegians through the continued Islamisation of Norway . . . although I care for her a great deal, I wouldn’t hold it against the [Knights Templar] if she was executed during an attack,” he wrote.
– ( Guardianservice)