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This was explained by department head Frank Eide, who heads the security department in Ila, in the Asker and Bærum district court on Thursday. It is this department that Manshaus has been sitting in since his arrest in August last year.

Manshaus was always isolated from other prisoners during his stay in Ila. Initially as a result of incarceration restrictions, gradually through security assessments.

– We landed, it is not justifiable to put him in communion with other inmates. This applies both to their safety, the safety of other inmates, and the safety of their employees, says Eide.

He says that Manshaus has always been in a good mood and stable, and that he seems to be little affected by the situation and the isolation.

Eide explains that reactions such as frustration or bad mood will generally be seen some time after incarceration, but that this has not been observed at Manshaus.

– Nor has he shown any remorse regarding the prison grounds to which he is subject. This also does not apply when we have spoken about the burden that the case has had on the family or society in general, says Eide.

He also noted that there were no obvious changes in Manshaus’s behavior during his family visits, which is common with other prisoners.

Check mark drawn in the cell

The staff has not noticed any changes in Manshaus’s thinking and beliefs since the incarceration.

– He has also shown no reaction when we conclude that he can receive a longer sentence. Wait 21 years in detention when there has been an issue with staff. He has shown no reaction to that problem, says Eide.

According to Eide, there is no indication that Manshaus has changed his attitude over time in prison.

– Nor have we seen any changes in their different human attitudes, values ​​and points of view. It is an experience that they may not want to change for the foreseeable future, says Eide.

Manshaus is said to have behaved correctly with staff, but received an oral warning in January after drawing a cross with a marker on the cell door.

– Then he explained that the character brought happiness. He received clear comments that it was not acceptable and washed himself, says Eide.

Racist drawings in the cell

On Thursday, a senior PST adviser also testified. The lead attorney analyzed Manshaus’s notes from before the attack and after the 22-year-old was jailed.

Among the notes from Ila prison are several drawings of people with weapons, including a cartoon depicting New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant. Several of the cartoons have speech bubbles with racist statements.

– This shows the clear dehumanizing and racist message, says the main adviser to the PST.

Considered driving through the crowd

The PST senior adviser also analyzed a newspaper that Manshaus reportedly wrote in January and February 2019.

The PST witness believes that all the material appears right-wing and dehumanizing, but notes that there is no mention of attacks on mosques or other violent actions in the January and February newspapers.

However, in the notes of the week before the terrorist attack on August 10, the content is more militant and combative, according to the PST witness.

The notes are written a few days after Manshaus downloaded the New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto.

In these notes, Manshaus has written a three-step plan. The first step is called “Kill at Home”, with capital letters and exclamation marks. The steps in the plan are identical to what Manshaus actually did on August 10 of last year.

Manshaus notes that Manshaus also considered driving a car through a crowd in Greenland.

Wanted in Breivik and Massacres

Thursday’s first witness was police officer Mads Astrup, who has conducted the Manshaus online activity in recent years.

Recorded online activity showed a large increase in searches for weapons and equipment, race and politics, and keywords linked to the terrorist attack on the Al-Noor Mosque in the second and third quarters of 2019.

Among other things, Astrup showed a word cloud with keywords such as “Christchurch”, “Breivik”, “Alt-right”, “massacre”, “incel”, “freedom struggle” and “holocaust”.

Manshaus also visited multiple pages on air pistols, gun laws, and school shooting in Sandy Hook, USA. USA In winter and spring 2018, searches were also found for “Nazi”, “nigger”, “Jewish”, “Nazi symbol” and “the Nordic resistance movement”.

Hitler as wallpaper

Astrup also said that Manshaus had a photo of Adolf Hitler as the background of his mobile phone and several photos with Nazi propaganda on his computer.

Among the websites that Manshaus frequently visited were 4chan, 8chan and Endchan. The latter is the website where he posted the latest post before attacking the mosque.

There he writes that he has been selected by “Saint Tarrant”, citing New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant. It also links to 45 photos of Manshaus, which were uploaded the day before. The post, which is signed with a full name, ends with “It was fun, Valhall is waiting.”

An almost identical note was found on the Manshaus computer. He himself explained that he was inspired by the Tarrant manifesto, which killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.

– Copy attack?

It also follows from the notes that Manshaus considered bringing a gas can and a lighter to the Al-Noor Mosque on August 10 of last year.

Olle Nohlin, assistant coordinating attorney for the insulted at the mosque, noted that Brenton Tarrant must also have had plans to burn down the mosques he attacked. Nohlin also noted that one of the mosques had the same name as the attack on the Manshaus mosque in Bærum (Al-Noor).

Nohlin asked the PST witness if Manshaus had added any “independent thinking” in his notes.

“He already uses established theories, which he has specifically gleaned from Tarrant, but also another extreme right-wing culture,” replied the PST’s senior adviser.

He declined to comment on Nohlin’s question. The Manshaus attack is a “pure copy” of the New Zealand terror.

Feared explosives

On Thursday, one of the first police officers to go to the Al-Noor Mosque in Bærum testified after Manshaus was arrested.

The police officer was responsible for speaking to Manshaus on the spot. He says Manshaus had blood on his face and had a cut on the back of his head, after the mosquito in the mosque. One of the criminals has explained that he hit Manshaus twice on the back of the flask with one of the weapons carried by the terrorist.

– At one point he looked me in the eye and said that we had to go from there if he wanted to continue living. He didn’t say how far we had to go to be safe.

The police officer emphasizes that at the time they did not know if Manshaus was alone in the action. Manshaus declined to answer repeated questions about this.

The police officer perceived it as a real danger that Manshaus had planted bombs in the area, as a “backup plan.”

– That’s how I perceived it. That if I wanted to preserve my life, we had to travel.

– “Shit”, there is some death somewhere

The officer says Manshaus seemed concerned about controlling the situation. Among other things, he asked the policemen if they were ethnically Norwegian and why they had become policemen.

“He was eager to get things from us, so he got water, and I cleaned his blood and put handcuffs on him,” said the police officer, who asked if Manshaus was sorry.

– He replied that he regretted not killing more. I thought “shit, there’s some death somewhere.” We did not know then that someone was dead.

Just a few hours later, the police found Manshaus’s half-sister, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, murdered in the family’s home.

The police officer says he was surprised at how young Manshaus was and that he occasionally perceived the terrorist as “a boy.”

– I did not have the feeling of being facing an evil person in the background, but I perceived him as a child. He seemed unsure and scared. At the same time, he performed an act that showed him the ability to act and the ability to do things.