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Prosecuting Breivik
Inga Bejer Engh sighs deeply, and pauses for thought. “I really can't tell you how I've done it, she says, laughing gently. “It's really impossible for me to describe: I have just got through it,” she tells The Foreigner, in an exclusive interview.
She has a reputation for being immaculately turned out, and frighteningly well prepared in court. My only contact with her before now has been a snatched conversation in a courtroom corridor. I'm not sure what to expect. She's certainly well dressed – an expensive-looking white knitted pullover, tasteful jewellery, and white trousers. Her inescapable, improbable blonde hair seems to be her natural colour, and if she's wearing make-up, it's hard to detect.
When the telephone rings she switches mode instantly. We have been speaking of the murder of children: she moves effortlessly into social smalltalk, then returns to the gruesome details of our conversation. It's this ability to find the right mode, to be instantly at home in both the personal and the professional, that's most striking. She's always in the moment, whether serious or light.
I mention that while Kirsten Vesterhus described to the court what it was like to lose her son Håvard, I saw Bejer Engh repeatedly dabbing her eyes with a white handkerchief.
“Me? Yes.” She pauses for a moment, choosing her words carefully. “I've often felt very moved by testimony from the witnesses. But I have to try to keep my role professional. When people ask me what it feels like to listen to what we've heard over all these weeks, I answer 'I hear the same things as you do.' It's impossible not to be moved, at least for me.”
“On Friday,” I say, “someone put up a handwritten sign outside the courthouse that said, 'To hell with Breivik. Terrorist and mass-murderer. Life in prison for the murderer. Change the law today.' Do you understand that kind of raw, stark feeling?”
“I can understand people having such strong feelings about how we should react to him. I get that. But we have to relate to the legal framework we have. Otherwise he's won. And you know, he wanted to change Norwegian society and I'm sure he'd feel it was a victory if we gave up our principles. Right at the moment we're being tested – can we hold on to our principles?”
“Three out of four Norwegians want Breivik to be found sane,” I say.
“Then we could just as easily have put it to a public vote,” she flashes back. The smile is still there, but she clearly doesn't think much of this line of argument.
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