The remaining parts of the car used by Breivik in his bomb attack are displayed in the 22 July Centre in the government quarter in Oslo.

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Oslo
Norway marked the fourth anniversary yesterday of the deadly attack by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik by commemorating the victims of his mass murder.
“You are not forgotten, we remember you with love,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in Oslo, where the commemoration that included a minute’s silence took place.
Government buildings in the capital still bear the marks of the explosions that Breivik – a far-right enthusiast and self-styled opponent of Norway’s multiculturalism – set off on July 22, 2011.
He later went on to murder 77 people, many of them children and young people, who were attending a youth camp organised by the Labour Party on the island of Utoya.
He shot people lying injured on the ground and those trying to flee through the water.
Breivik, who has never shown any remorse, is currently in solitary confinement serving a 21-year prison sentence that can be extended indefinitely if he is considered a threat.
The day would always be “a dark day in Norwegian history”, Solberg said yesterday.
Later in the afternoon, the families gathered to remember their loved ones on the island of Utoya.
Earlier in the day there had been a church service in Oslo attended by royalty and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was prime minister at the time of the attack.
An exhibition dedicated to the tragedy that some fear could become a “hall of fame” for the mass murderer was opened yesterday.
The exhibition has triggered controversy as several objects used by Breivik in his July 2011 rampage, such as the remains of the van where he hid his bomb and the fake ID and insignia he used to impersonate a police officer, are on display.
The temporary exhibition is housed on the ground floor of the government complex in Oslo that the killer, now 36, unsuccessfully tried to blow up with a massive car bomb.
“The information centre should spread knowledge in order to prevent hatred, violence and terrorism,” Solberg said at the opening ceremony, in a speech that brought her close to tears.
“This year, terror struck again in Europe, in Copenhagen and in Paris,” a black-clad Solberg told an audience of about 200 people.
“This week it hit young people in Turkey,” she added, referring to the suicide bombing that killed 32 people on Monday.
A Facebook page campaigning against the exhibition has garnered 15,000 “likes”, with many users saying it was wrong to give Breivik more publicity.
“A Breivik museum will probably be a feather in his cap,” Facebook user Bjorg Strand wrote, while Inger-Lise Christensen likened it to the United States erecting a statue of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
And a lawyer representing Breivik’s victims, John Christian Elden, also voiced outrage.
“A Breivik museum in the government complex? No thank you. Send the goods to the National Museum of Justice in Trondheim instead,” he wrote on Twitter.
In another move that stirred anger in Norway, the University of Oslo said last week that it had admitted Breivik to a political science degree course.
The government has sought to defend the exhibition.
“I didn’t feel that the burned-out car made such a big impression. It just shows the power of the explosion,” Solberg told AFP. “I think the strongest impressions are the opposite, that is, the images of the resistance against extremism.”
Lisbeth Kristine Royneland, the head of a support group for survivors and victims’ families, who lost her 18-year-old daughter on Utoya, said she supported the project.
“It is not focused on the perpetrator of the attacks,” she told AFP after visiting the centre on Tuesday, refusing – like many Norwegians – to utter the killer’s name.
Displaying pictures, cameras and mobile phones left on the island by those targeted, the exhibition focuses on the victims and the survivors, Breivik’s trial and on how Norwegians have stood together.
The objects are accompanied with excerpts from the 2012 verdict against Breivik.
On Twitter, Utoya survivor Elin L’Estrange recommended those who feared it would become a “Breivik museum” to visit the “beautiful and dignified” exhibition.