On 22 July 2011, 32-year-old far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik committed two domestic terrorist attacks in Norway against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League
33 minutes after the explosion in Oslo
The building housing the Office of the Prime Minister and Ministry of Justice and the Police with blown-out windows shortly after the explosion. The bomb van had been placed behind the people shown.
A white Volkswagen Crafter van similar to the one Breivik planted the bomb in
Harald V was King of Norway from 1991 until his death in 2026.
2011 Norway attacks
…director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law as a Kurdistan-based affiliate of Al-Qaeda led by Abu Suleiman al-Naser. King Harald V sent his condolences to the victims and their families, and urged unity. He and Queen Sonja personally visited the victims of the attacks, as well as…
Harald with his mother Crown Princess Märtha in 1937
Harald as mascot for the Royal Norwegian Air Force at its Little Norway airfield in Canada, 1943
Harald as a student in the Cavalry Officers' Candidate School, Trandum, 1956/1957