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Anders Breivik pleads not guilty at Norway murder trial
Anders Breivik smiled as he entered the court and gave a closed-fist salute
The man who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial in Oslo.
Anders Behring Breivik attacked a youth camp organised by the governing Labour party on the island of Utoeya, after setting off a car bomb in the capital.
He has confessed to the killings, but denies any criminal responsibility.
The prosecution earlier read out the charges against him and gave a detailed account of how each person was killed.
If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he will be jailed.
In the latter case, he faces a sentence of 21 years, which could be extended to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The 33-year-old Norwegian was found insane in one examination, while a second assessment made public last week found him mentally competent.
'Self-defence'
Dressed in a dark suit, Breivik smiled as he entered the courtroom and a guard removed his handcuffs. He then gave a closed-fist salute.
He later told the lead judge, Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen: "I do not recognise the Norwegian courts. You have received your mandate from political parties which support multiculturalism."
He also said he did not recognise the authority of Judge Arntzen, claiming she was friends with the sister of former Prime Minister and Labour party leader Gro Harlem Brundtland.
The judge noted the objections, which Breivik's lawyer said were not official, and said the lawyer could follow up on them in his opening arguments.
Breivik described his occupation as a "writer", currently working from prison.
Prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh read out the charges against him and gave an extensively detailed account of how each person was killed or injured in last July's attacks.
She said the attacks "created fear in the Norwegian population", adding: "The defendant has committed very serious crimes, on a scale which hasn't been experienced in our country in modern times."
Breivik showed no emotion, looking down at the table in front of him.
At the end of the indictment, he told the court: "I acknowledge the acts, but not criminal guilt - I claim I was doing it in self-defence."
Breivik has already confessed to the attacks - first the car bombing outside government buildings in Oslo which killed eight people, and then the shooting spree at a youth camp on Utoeya, where most of the victims were teenagers.
The court has refused to allow TV broadcasts of Breivik's testimony to spare the victims' families
At a court hearing in February, he said his killing spree was "a preventative attack against state traitors", who he claimed were guilty of "ethnic cleansing" because of their support for a multicultural society.
His lawyer has said his only regret is that "he did not go further".
"It is difficult to understand, but I am telling you this to prepare people for his testimony," Geir Lippestad told reporters before the trial.
Parts of the trial will be shown on television, but the court will not allow Breivik's testimony or that of his witnesses to be broadcast. Breivik is scheduled to take the stand for about a week, starting on Tuesday.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Oslo says that with Breivik not expected to express any remorse for his actions, his trial promises to be an ordeal for the families of those killed and for those who survived the attacks.
Jorid Nordmelan, a survivor of the Utoeya massacre, told the BBC she would be in court to hear Breivik testify.
"It's a historical date for Norwegians," she said. "We never had a trial like this, so we don't know what's going to happen.
"Prosecutors told me they were going to make the opening statements awful, so that people can just feel what he did right there."
Police have sealed off streets around the courtroom, which was specially built for the trial to accommodate more than 200 people. Glass partitions have been put up to separate the victims and their families from Breivik.
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At the scene
Lars Bevanger
Oslo
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Journalists, victims and the general public started queuing up outside the Oslo District court more than two hours before the trial was due to start. Even now, as the biggest and arguably the most important court case in Norway since WWII gets under way, security is very relaxed.
The leader of the Labour party's youth movement, Eskil Pedersen, was among those queuing up to get in.
He was a stated target for Anders Behring Breivik on 22 July last year, yet today he has no security detail. People here say this is a sign of Norway's determination not to allow Breivik's actions to compromise this country's open democracy.
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