Norway PM warns of growing threat of far-right radicalisation

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store warned of the growing threat of far-right radicalisation among young people, saying social media, artificial intelligence and social isolation were fueling extremism.

This, as the country marked the 15th anniversary of its July 22, 2011 terror attacks.

On July 22nd, 2011, far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik carried out Norway's deadliest terrorist attacks, killing 77 people in a bombing in Oslo's Government Quarter and a mass shooting at a summer camp on Utoya Island.

The attacks left lasting scars on Norwegian society.

In 2012, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum allowed under Norwegian law at the time.

Several people who survived the Utoya attack have since continued working in politics, becoming ministers and other senior government officials.

Store, who laid a wreath at a memorial in Oslo to commemorate the shooting, described their continued political engagement as evidence that the determination to shape the future peacefully had prevailed over death and violence.