Norwegian ultra-right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik sent his manifesto to recipients he addressed as “West European patriots” shortly before carrying out his double terrorist attack in Norway on July 22, and requested them to distribute the document to others. The Czech server ekonom.cz obtained a list of the email addresses from the Belgian far-right MP, Tanguy Veys — one of the few people who has admitted receiving the manifesto from Breivik.
“I think the majority of recipients had the same misfortune as myself and found themselves on the list through bad luck. I don’t know Breivik, and I didn’t maintain contact with him or with people and organizations who support him,” Veys told ekonom.cz in an email.
Czech privacy laws prevent ekonom.cz from publishing the email addresses without the consent of their owners. Nevertheless, the news server said that no Czech politicians were on Breveik’s list of recipients. Most of the addresses are private accounts with the most popular Czech web-based email providers, seznam.cz and volny.cz. Ekonom.cz reports that Breivik sent his manifesto to some Czech ‘young sportsmen’
Ekonom.cz did report, however, that a search of information available on the Internet revealed that some “young sportsmen” were on Breivik’s mailing list, without giving any further details. The server says it has contacted the addresses and is waiting for responses.
Ekonom.cz, which also publishes the weekly Ekonom, asked the Czech state intelligence agency BIS as to whether it is investigating the Czech recipients of Breveik’s manifesto, but the agency refused to give an answer. “The case is being investigated by the Norwegian side; therefore, it is not for us to comment,” BIS spokesman Jan Šubert told ekonom.cz. He did say, however, that the BIS have not found any direct links between Czech and Norwegian extremists.
