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7/25/11

Europe on alert after Norway Right-Wing attacks - by Andrew Ward and Robin Wigglesworth and Quentin Peel

Police around Europe are on increased alert against far-right extremism as the Norwegian charged over terror attacks" man accused of killing 93 people in Norway’s bomb and shooting attack prepares to face charges in an Oslo court on Monday.

Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, has admitted bombing government buildings in central Oslo on Friday before shooting dead scores of young people at a Labour party summer camp on Utøya, an island outside the capital. Under Norwegian law, he faces a maximum of 21 years in prison if found guilty of what Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister, called Norway’s “national tragedy”.

Across Europe, police authorities increased scrutiny of Killer personifies rise of new far-right">potential far-right threats while Muslim groups in the UK raised security levels amid fear of anti-Islamic activity. Europol, the European police agency based in The Hague, said it was setting up a task force to help investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries.

 For more: Europe on alert after Norway attacks - FT.com

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