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AN IRISH MAN who befriended Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has told how the perpetrator of two deadly attacks “just seemed like a normal, nice guy”.
The man, who wished to be named only as Frank, said he became friends with Breivik online and spoke to him every night for several years. The two played multiplayer game World of Warcraft as part of a larger group of people. Frank described the moment he heard about the Norwegian killings:
I was at my father’s 70th birthday and I got a phone call from another friend of mine who plays the game telling me that I should turn on the telly, that Anders was on the telly. He said ‘He’s after killing a load of people.’ I thought he was joking. But I looked at Sky News and there he was.
Speaking on Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy Show Frank said Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in twin bomb and gun attacks in Oslo and Utoya island, showed an aptitude for the game’s strategic elements. “He was always very tactical,” Frank said. He added that this appeared to be replicated in the way Breivik carried out the killings. “It seems that translates,” Frank said. “That he was very cold. He was very calm and cool and collected and went about it as if they weren’t even people, as if it was just a job that he had to do, a quest.”
Frank also said that Breivik, who was also his Facebook friend, “used to talk about his parents, about when they broke up and divorced.
He talked about his mother a lot; he wouldn’t play on Sundays because he would be visiting her. He just seemed like a normal, nice guy.
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Is the RCC making any contribution to this compensation fund? They were the employer and they received money both from the State and from the businesses which they carried work out for. Surely, there must be some liability there. Perhaps, a transfer of RCC school property to the State, if they are stuck for ready cash?
The RCC have not paid one single euro into the fund nor have any of the Orders of Nuns.
Is it me or does the compensation sound small. They worked for years as slave labour in these laundries.
Whether intending to or not you’ve made their claim only about money.
@Ross
I’ve seen a few of these ladies on TV and they have stated that they are looking for an official apology.
Read my comment fully. It was directed at the first comment who said that the money was too low.
Maybe that’s the your mind works so you picked it up like that. If they looked for or didn’t that doesn’t change the fact they should be fairly compensated.
Why aren’t the RCC paying the full amount?? Typical, the Irish government bend over and take it up the ar se every time from this corrupt and perverted cult!! Time to separate church and state for once and for all!!
It’s a good start, but i think they want vindication as well.
It seems small change-maybe there waiting for these people to disappear off the planet for good,to reduce that €12 million compo figure!…
The maths on that don’t add up and there is nothing wrong with my calculator.If you take 357 and even assume they were at top of scale. They got lump sum of 65,000 multiply that by 357 and you get 23,205,000 that’s not 12.8 million
Also when she states CERTAIN MEDICAL SCHEMES I would like to know exactly what schemes she is referring to.
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