DPA/Oslo
The captain of the ferry that transported accused mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik to the island where 69 people died in a shooting spree last year said yesterday that he believed he saw how Brevik shot his partner.Monica Bosei, known as “Mother Utoeya”, was manager at the island of Utoya during the summer camp organised by the Labour Party.She and an off-duty police officer, Trond Berntsen, who was acting as a security guard at the island were probably the first shooting victims.“I am not sure, I can’t recall if I saw him (Breivik) shooting Monica. I think I did,” the captain said according to reporters in the court.The 33-year-old Breivik has admitted to carrying out the bomb attack near the government buildings in Oslo and the shooting on Utoeya but pleaded not guilty. The July 22 attacks in total left 77 dead.Breivik has earlier testified how he decided to shoot Berntsen and Bosei shortly after arriving at Utoeya, fearing his cover had been blown.The ferry captain told the court how he received a telephone call to collect a “police officer” from the mainland and that his partner accompanied him on the crossing.Breivik did not raise suspicion and they returned to the island where the captain offered to transport a heavy bag Breivik had with him up to the main building.Breivik said it contained bomb disposal equipment.When the shooting began, the captain fled and returned to the quay where he took the ferry back to the mainland.On the short crossing he recalled his desperation and fears of what had happened his teenage daughter, one of hundreds at the island. She survived the rampage.The captain later took part in the rescue operation and said the ferry was used to transport injured people from the island.The court also heard testimony from Simen Braenden Mortensen who was serving as a security guard, stationed on the quay that links the mainland to the island of Utoeya at the time.“I remember I reacted when he arrived in a little van,” Mortensen said. “He was very calm and I noticed he had pistol strapped to his thigh.”He said Breivik, who was wearing a fake police identification tag, told him he had been assigned to secure the island in the aftermath of the bombing that targeted government offices in Oslo.Mortensen said he heard gunshots shortly after the ferry carrying Breivik arrived at the island some 650m from the mainland.Two detectives later described the weapons and other equipment Breivik brought with him to the island. Police estimated that Breivik fired 121 shots with a semi-automatic pistol and 176 shots with a rifle during the rampage.In addition, police found plastic strips that could be used to tie up people, smoke grenades and two diesel fuel canisters, Goran Dyvesveen said. He also showed photos of the fake police uniform and police identification tag that Breivik was wearing and scenes of the buildings were victims were killed, often at close range.The trial opened on April 16 and is scheduled to last until June.