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WORLD NEWS 9
Saturday 18 July 2015
Oslo university Greece:
admits Breivik to
study program Firefighters battle blazes; save 200 trapped on beach
JAN M. OLSEN ELENA BECATOROS A helicopter flies over a fire on the mountain of Ymittos in the eastern suburbs of Athens on Fri-
Associated Press Associated Press day, July 17, 2015. Greek firefighters battled the large brush fire burning across Ymittos hill, as
COPENHAGEN, Denmark ATHENS, Greece (AP) — strong winds helped the flames devour parts of the verdant hillside popular with day-trippers.
(AP) — Convicted mass Greek firefighters battled
killer Anders Behring Breivik large fires in the south, on (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
has been admitted to the the outskirts of Athens and
University of Oslo’s political on an island near the capi- emergency meeting Friday of arson, and ordered the massive blaze in the Lako-
science program, although tal Friday as flames fed by night with the head of the armed forces to patrol for- nia area in the Pelopon-
he will stay in his cell to strong winds forced the armed forces, the defense ests and woodlands across nese, southern Greece,
study, the university’s rector evacuation of villages and and interior ministers, the the country as a preventa- where at least three villag-
said Friday. summer camps. About 200 head of the civil protection tive measure. es were evacuated.
The 36-year-old right-wing people trapped by one fire agency and the head of “All forces are on alert,” Rescue boats battled gale-
extremist is serving 21 years were plucked off a beach Greece’s secret services. Tsipras said, noting that the force winds to reach about
in prison for killing 77 peo- by rescue boats. Defense Minister Panos hot, dry and windy condi- 200 people who had taken
ple in politically motivated In all, firefighters were bat- Kammenos said it was tions were making firefight- refuge in a bay, ferrying
bomb-and-gun massacres tling 59 fire fronts, mainly in likely that at least some ing more difficult. them to safety, the coast
in 2011. The sentence can southern Greece and near of the fires were the result The most severe fire was a guard said.q
be extended when it ex- the capital. Prime Minister
pires. Alexis Tsipras said Greece
“All inmates in Norwegian had requested help from
prisons are entitled to higher his country’s army and air
education in Norway if they force, as well as the Euro-
meet the admission require- pean emergency response
ments,” university rector Ole center, to fight the blazes.
Petter Ottersen said Friday France was sending two
in an email to The Associat- Canadair firefighting air-
ed Press. Breivik’s applica- craft and a Beechcraft re-
tion was rejected two years connaissance plane along
ago after the university said with expert teams, French
his qualifications were in- Interior Minister Bernard
sufficient. That submission Cazeneuve said. The air-
stirred a debate in Norway craft and teams were to
over whether someone fly to Greece on Saturday.
convicted of such a horrific France helped Greece
crime should be considered fight forest fires in August
for higher education. 2014.
Norway has a rehabilita- Tsipras was holding an
tion-focused justice system
aimed at helping inmates 3 French arrested in IS-inspired plan to attack base
prepare for life after they
get out, which includes giv- PARIS (AP) — Three young fice said. The prosecutor’s statement order to attack a site in
ing them the right to pursue men plotted an attack on The men, arrested Mon- said the three men told in- France, the statement said.
higher education. Before a French military base after day, went before an inves- vestigators they planned He left the Marines in 2014
the 2011 attacks, Breivik at- receiving orders from an Is- tigative judge Friday. The a late December or early after less than a year for
tended high schools in Nor- lamic State group contact prosecutor’s office opened January attack on the failure to adapt to military
way and took online course in Syria to strike in France, an investigation June 23 on Mediterranean military life.
in small business manage- prosecutors said Friday. suspicion they were pre- post Fort Bear, where Dje- The three intended to travel
ment. But he had not com- The accounts investigators paring terrorist acts to harm bril A., 23, a former Marine, to Syria but Ismael K. raised
pleted secondary educa- say they gave underscore people. once worked. The others, suspicions and was ques-
tion, which he has been the role of the Islamic State More than 2,500 potential- Ismael K., 17, and Antoine tioned in October. A month
working on since his 2012 organization’s savvy social ly radicalized youth have F., 19, said the plan was to later — at his mother’s re-
conviction. “He then didn’t media machine in recruit- been flagged in France decapitate the base chief, quest — he was banned
meet the admission require- ing Western youth. All three by worried families, Inte- which Djebril A. denied. from leaving France, the
ments. Now his grades live had high school diplomas rior Minister Bernard Caze- Djebril A. told investigators statement said.
up to what is expected,” and quickly radicalized neuve said this week, and he felt he was on a mission The three, who met online,
university spokeswoman watching grisly IS group 1,850 others have traveled for the Islamic State group communicated through an
Marina Tofting said.q videos, the prosecutor’s of- to Syria or are trying to. and wanted to answer the encrypted program.q
