"For us to come to terms with this terrible tragedy, it was important to just dig really deep and try to find out as much as possible about him." "We had to question ourselves 'are we to blame for this? Could something have been done differently? At what stage of his life could this crime have been averted?'. "He was born in Norway, he is a fellow Norwegian - he actually lived on my street. However, publishing information about the case was important for Norwegians because "he is one of us". She says it was a mistake for the media to publish photos that Breivik had posted online of himself posing with a gun, because these would have been terrible for those who had lost children on the island to see. "Tarrant and many of the shooters in America, they have announced their shooting sometimes 24 hours ahead. Seierstad says it is vital that the police and other authorities monitor online sites more carefully and contact young people who begin to post on racist internet sites. Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad says it is important to understand that mass murderers have names and grew up in our societies. "That's where Tarrant found Breivik's manifesto," she says.
However, she argues that terrorists are more likely to share information and cheer each other on sites on the dark web, such as 4chan and 8chan. "The mainstream media can contribute to the fact that these people gain some kind of fame through being photographed, through being listened to after they have committed these terrible crimes." Seierstad raises concerns that the Christchurch killer could have been inspired by photos of Breivik and news stories about the case. "Now his crimes are being studied in schools, even some of his ideas, but in a responsible way." "We got to know how he had planned this, how he executed it, how he found money for it, who could have been involved, and also we were informed about the ideology of his. Soon after the mass murders, the then Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, called for "more democracy, more openness, more humanity". Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik in court in 2017.
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