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Key Breivik document stolen from police HQ

An ultra-sensitive document containing a transcript of a police questioning of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was stolen just weeks after he mounted his attacks, Norway's Dagsavisen newspaper has reported.

Key Breivik document stolen from police HQ
Breivik's defence lawyer Geir Lippestad. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix
The theft, which allegedly took place at the Oslo police headquarters during the night of August 23, was immediately reported, but was never revealed to Breivik's lawyers or others in the case. 
 
Breivik's defence lawyer Geir Lippestad said that he had never learned of the theft. 
 
"This is new to us," he said. "We are strongly opposed to any secrecy and would have expected that we, as defenders, would have been informed if a 42-page interrogation of our client had been stolen," he told the newspaper. 
 
According to the newspaper, the stolen document was a 42-page transcript of an interrogation of Breivik which took place on   August 9 and August 10. 
 
In the interview, among other things, Breivik explained how he had planned to decapitate Norway's former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland with a bayonet, recording the event on a digital camera and posting it on the internet. 

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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