The changes that Greengrass does make are primarily for the benefit of international audiences. PerThe New Yorker, Breivik has lodged complaints about his cell only having a PlayStation 2 instead of a PlayStation 3, and hispen being ergonomically uncomfortable to write with (something that he described as "an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism"). [1] Her party won 43 percent of the votes and she was subsequently elected mayor, replacing Kjell Mork. [4] He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Viljar tends to stay out of the limelight and the new film is based on a book about the killings called One Of Us, by Asne Seierstad, rather than anything from him. She is now married to Raymond Johansen since 2017. Its Estonian meaning is "grow" or "nourishment", whereas the Old Norse version of the name means "Willing warrior". [52], However, Hanssen's suspicions did not stop him from making one more dead drop. More devastating, he lost his best friends Anders Kristiansen, 18, and Simon Saebo, 18, who were shot by Breivik. [36], IT personnel from the National Security Division's IIS Unit were sent to investigate Hanssen's desktop computer after a reported failure. When FBI agents observed this incriminating act, they rushed in to arrest Hanssen. 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. I try to live as normal as possible in the days leading up to 22/07. But I wasn't afraid, death seemed like the easy way out. The beating heart of the film is in the survivors, especially a bright-eyed 18-year-old named Viljar Hanssen, played by Jonas Strand Gravli. [64] His three daughters attended Oakcrest School for Girls in Vienna, Virginia, an independent Roman Catholic school. People named Viljar include: Viljar Loor (1953-2011), volleyball player Viljar Myhra (born 1996), football player He continued to perform incriminating searches of FBI files for his name and address. And I choose to live.". But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes. Christin Kristoffersen (born August 28, 1973) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. After the transfer, while on a business visit back to Washington, D.C., he resumed his espionage career. [73], Eric O'Neill's role in the capture of Robert Hanssen was dramatized in the 2007 movie Breach, in which Chris Cooper played the role of Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe played O'Neill.[74]. On October 1, 1985, Hanssen sent an anonymous letter to the KGB offering his services and asking for $100,000 in cash, equivalent to $251,949 in 2021. Posts Tagged Photo of four-kilometer-long cable that disappeared and was found again before it was placed in the sea by LoveOcean/Institute of Marine Research Norway Photo by The Norwegian Armed Forces Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has altered Russias security perspectives dramatically, also with concern to the Photo courtesy of Andrey Yakunin Andrey Yakunin, 47, was detained by Norwegian police earlier in October for flying a drone in Norwegian airspace. He spent three months in the hospital before returning to Longyearbyen, where almost immediately he became the youngest person ever elected to the community council at the age of 17. 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. Viljars main concern was to protect the life of his brother Torje, who was 14. He said: I came in the office one day and read his testimony in court some of which is in the film. They attended Mass weekly and were very active in Opus Dei. Its just that once a year everybody else as well is talking and writing about the massacre. 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For that reason, it was a brave decision for him to face down Breivik in court. , it is Viljar Hanssen, a teenage boy wounded badly by Breivik in the shooting. Maybe he just finds that easier to relate to, Rashid said, but he should be making more of an effort to represent other sides.. Mislock has since theorized that Hanssen probably went onto his computer to see if his superiors were investigating him for espionage and invented the document story to cover his tracks. Is Anyone Actually Watching Netflix's Original Movies? He also believed he heard noises on his car radio that indicated it was bugged, although the FBI was later unable to reproduce the noises Hanssen claimed to have heard. Her sons, Viljar Robert Christian Hanssen (born August 4, 1993) and Torje Hanssen (born July 14, 1997), were on the island of Utya during the 22nd of July 2011 Norway attacks. He eventually lost consciousness, and was taken toUllevl hospital, where he fell into a coma as his injuries were treated. . Viljar, then 17, lay defenceless on the ground as he was blasted in the head during the 2011 island killing spree that left 77 dead. Lippestadia Breivikin selitys ei liiemmin miellyttnyt. His injury means heading a football or falling could be fatal. [60] He refused to use the dead drop sites that his handler, Victor Cherkashin, suggested and instead chose his own. Hermansen oli norjalais-ghanalainen 16-vuotias poika, jonka norjalaiset uusnatsit puukottivat kuoliaaksi. The bomb has removed the government and here I have liquidated a political camp. At one point his own lawyer says, Norway isnt on trial. Because I still have family, and friends, and memories, and dreams. 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.. In November 1998, they had a man with a foreign accent come to Kelley's door, warn him that the FBI knew he was a spy, and tell him to show up at a Metro station the next day to escape. This shows me that standing up against racism, promoting solidarity and never forgetting those that lost their lives is still very important. While it did not contain Hanssen's name, among the information was an audiotape of a July 21, 1986, conversation between "B" and KGB agent Aleksander Fefelov. [49][50][51], During his final days with the FBI, Hanssen began to suspect something was wrong. Some promising suspects were cleared, and the mole hunt found other penetrations, such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson. The investigation is covered in O'Neill's memoir Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy, published by Penguin Random House in the spring of 2019. Ylva Schwenke, 15, captured here in what Gjestvang says is one of her most imprtant photos, Court finds Anders Behring Breivik sane, gives him maximum penalty for murdering 77 people in shooting and bombing last year, Ynet's interview with Andrea Gjestvang (: , ). She fled down the stairs, making her way to the site of the explosion, stumbling upon a scene so abnormal in Norway: Viljar and his brother survive, but the former only with massive injuries. Viljar was elected to the council in Svalbard in autumn 2011 (Photo: Andrea Gjestvang/MOMENT), Cecilie Herlovsen, 17, was shot in her arm, shoulder and chin. A: Enormous pain and anger. 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. Torje tried to help his brother, who insisted he should save himself. The movie at this point transitions into a broad political allegory. Viljar Hanssen is a survivor of the July 2011 attack at the Utya summer camp in Norway. Norway's criminal justice system is focused on rehabilitation, so prisons are not designed with punishment of the inmates in mind, but rather to offer something as close to normal life as possible. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. Q: Aside from work, what are some of your future plans and hopes? Viljar is himself studying politics but his purpose his very different. Timeline of terrorViljars parents braced themselves for the worst, yet he woke from a coma after six days able to talk. By 2011, she was a board member of the school board, the board of city operations and the port authority. In January 2001, Hanssen was given an office and an assistant, Eric O'Neill, who, in reality, was a young FBI surveillance specialist who had been assigned to watch Hanssen. However, this was overturned in 2017 and his attempt to appeal the decision in 2018 was rejected by the European Court of Human Rights as "inadmissible for being manifestly ill-founded. It comes at a time when far-right parties are securing record support in nations including Norways neighbour Sweden. Six months later, Gjestvang began recording 25 survivors' paths to recovery. This is an important part of my life and it will stay that way. Otherwise, it seems as thoughHanssenand his brother's attempted flight from Breivik was recreatedquite accurately in Greengrass' film. As Viljar struggles through depression and physiotherapy, he becomes an embodied metaphor for Norway as a whole. Paul Greengrass drama 22 July recreates the horror of Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 terrorist attack. There is nothing about his world view or his arguments or his rhetoric that a mainstream populist right-wing politician does not espouse. His most important leak was the betrayal of Dmitri Polyakov, a CIA informant who passed enormous amounts of information to U.S. intelligence while rising to the rank of general in the Soviet Army. But in general I'm more positive and social and value life' (Photo: Andrea Gjestvang/ MOMENT). The shrapnel inside him (which could shift and kill him at any time) represents the remains of Breiviks horrific actions, the trauma that Viljar and all of Norway will have to bear forever. [22] Yuzhin had returned to Moscow in 1982 and had been subject to an intensive investigation by the KGB there due to having lost a concealed camera in the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, but he was not arrested until being exposed by Ames and Hanssen. She compiled the pictures and testimonies into a book entitled "A Day in History" ("En Dag I Historien"), which came out in 2012. This is one of them. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Lise Aaserud, NTB scanpix, AFP |Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik makes a Nazi salute ahead his appeal hearing at a court at the Telemark prison in Skien, Norway, on Jan. 10, 2017. When his body is scanned in a machine it is almost as if the country is being examined for damage. [14] The next year, Hanssen was transferred to counterintelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the FBI. Jeg ramte vandet lige tids nok til at se min bror blive skudt i hovedet." Den sommer var Torje Hanssen 14 r gammel. Menu. She went with Hanssen on visits to Hong Kong and the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia. Hanna Endresen, 61, Oslo Receptionist in the security department of the Government Administration Services. Thats when I thought, I need to make this film. Breivik, now 39, was given the maximum sentence available in Norway, which is 21 years in solitary confinement. 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]. In 2016, a Norwegian court ruled that Breivik's human rights had been violated after he sued the prison for conducting strip searches and keeping him in isolation from the other inmates. [35] Three years later, convicted FBI mole Earl Edwin Pitts told the FBI that he suspected Hanssen due to the Mislock incident. Ulkomaat Utyan joukkomurhasta selviytynyt nuori Viljar kertoo kauhun hetkist - merkittiin ensin kuolleeksi Utyan saarella 17-vuotiaana vakavasti haavoittunut Viljar Hanssen kantoi suurimman huolen siit, pelastuuko 13-vuotias pikkuveli. He even managed to bring laughter to proceedings, joking: I lost this eye, but thats useful. The first time around, his wife divorced him after a mere half-year because of his incarceration for arson in Iowa. Breivik then drove 25 miles to a lake where the ruling Labour Partys youth league were camping on Utoya. My mom and I decided that getting a dog might help me, so I got Athene. Their humane accounts put the unremorseful murderer to shame. Trying to prioritize right in a tight budget, when you want to give everybody everything is tough. These include the loss of one eye, motor impairments, and inoperable bullet shrapnel embedded near his brainstem. "The only graphic violence, really, is the shooting of Viljar Hanssen, which I did with his permission," he says (individual viewers' definition of "graphic" may vary). And he's going to rot there in prison, whereas I- I survived. A digital investigation found that an attempted hacking had occurred using a password cracking program installed by Hanssen, which caused a security alert and lockup. And he doesn't. He quit after one year and joined the Chicago Police Department as an internal affairs investigator, specializing in forensic accounting. As recounted in the film, he realized shortly after being shot that he was blind in one eye, and began talking to himself in an attempt to stay awake. His time in prison can be extended if he is ruled to be a continued threat. history. In 22 July, it is Viljar Hanssen, a teenage boy wounded badly by Breivik in the shooting. Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal. The FBI could not produce any good evidence, and as a result, Bloch was never charged with a crime, although the State Department later terminated his employment and denied his pension. I. I wanted to stay strong. And United 93 (2006) is a claustrophobic take on the September 11 terrorist attacks. [45] FBI analyst Bob King remembered Hanssen using that same quote. [67], At Hanssen's suggestion, and without his wife's knowledge, a friend named Jack Hoschouer, a retired Army officer, would sometimes watch the Hanssens having sex through a bedroom window. The cinematography of 22 July is moody and dark, all low light and pained faces. [75], The American Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots released an episode on the Robert Hanssen case titled "Robert Hanssen Hanssen and the KGB".[76]. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Jonas Strand Gavli is terrific in the role of Viljar, conveying the unimaginable terror of trying to defend a younger sibling during the Utya ordeal, then bringing the viewer into the dark bedroom of a depressed teenager. 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. 'I bear my scars with dignity, because I got them standing for something I believe in,' says 15-year-old Ylva Schwenke (Photo: Andrea Gjestvang/ MOMENT), 'In the period after Utoya I had a really hard time sleeping,' says Iselin Rose, 15. A: I honestly dont think it has changed much, but the real debates and public conversations surrounding this years markering is very promising. Q:When I was reading through your Facebook page I was a bit surprised how often Utya is mentioned or in some way relevant in posts by you and others, since over the years you and others have talked about wanting to focus on the future and not that day. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. 19 Viljar Hanssen Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 19 Viljar Hanssen Premium High Res Photos Browse 19 viljar hanssen stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. HE survived the murderous gun rampage of Anders Breivik but Viljar Hanssen could still become the fascist monsters next victim at any moment. The brothers were also the focus of the major motion picture 22 July and have been active in issues related to the massacre such as political radicalization. He became blind on the right eye and had amputated three fingers. Im finishing my masters degree in law school the next year as well. The portrayal of the attack itself hews closely to the official details. I mean, its a part of my life and will always be, physically and emotionally. In 1979, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and offered his services. Viljar Hanssen blev ramt i venstre skulder, venstre hnd, venstre lr og i hjre arm. [33], Hanssen continued to take risks in 1993 when he hacked into the computer of a fellow FBI agent, Ray Mislock, printed out a classified document from Mislock's computer and took the document to Mislock, saying, "You didn't believe me that the system was insecure." Viljar Hanssen - The Irish Times Viljar Hanssen Video Killer Anders Behring Breivik to sue Norway over treatment Man who murdered 77 people has been held in isolation for five years News. Pevn posmutnl a napjat astnci jednn se s levou zasmli. Hanssen doesn't recall if he was shot on the cliff or on his way down, but says that "I remember crying to my brother that he should get away." Ames was officially blamed for giving Polyakov's name to the Soviets, while Hanssen's attempt was not revealed until after his 2001 capture. 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