Calls for Norway’s PM to quit over Breivik errors
A commission said intelligence service and police blunders allowed Breivik to carry out his crimes last July unimpeded.
“A more devastating verdict on our government could not have been made,” newspaper VG said, calling for premier Jens Stoltenberg to resign.
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Hide Ad“The government failed to protect the people because of incompetence. It would be intolerable if this didn’t have personal consequences for the people involved,” it added.
Daily DN also laid responsibility for the failings on the prime minister, saying he delayed approving security measures that could have prevented the attack.
However, fallout from the report is seen as unlikely to bring down the government, which has so far successfully guided Norway’s economy through Europe’s turbulence.