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Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's father to publish book

This article is more than 9 years oldJens Breivik's My Fault? A Father's story will deal with his role in life of killer and is said to be 'self-trial' by ex-diplomat

The father of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will publish a book entitled, My Fault? A Father's Story, on his role in the life of the killer, his publisher has announced.

In an excerpt released on Wednesday, Jens Breivik writes: "I feel some guilt and I feel some responsibility. What would have happened if I had been a better father? Would Anders have done what he did?"

His son is serving a 21-year sentence, which can be extended, for the murders of 77 people in Oslo and the island of Utøya in July 2011 – most of them adolescents at a summer camp.

Jens Breivik – a former diplomat who moved to France when he retired – has often been described as an absent father. He was separated from his son's mother shortly after the boy turned one and lost contact with him when he was a teenager.

During the murder investigation and trial it emerged that Norwegian social services had suspected Breivik was neglected at home as a child. At the time his father had attempted to win custody over him but failed.

Written with the help of a ghostwriter, the book – to be released in October – is a form of "self-trial", according to editor Arve Juritzen, who said that Jens Breivik re-established contact with his son this year. "In fact, he is pretty hard with himself," Juritzen said.

Another book about Breivik's late mother, Wenche Behring Breivik – which she first collaborated on but later rejected – portrayed Jens Breivik as a domestic tyrant.

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