Suspect claims Norway mosque attack was 'emergency justice'

A Norwegian man suspected of killing his ethnic Chinese stepsister and then storming an Oslo mosque and opening fire said Thursday on the first day of his trial that it was an act of emergency justice" and that he regretted not having caused more damage.

Philip Manshaus appeared at a court west of Norway's capital and denied charges of murder and terror read to him by a prosecutor, the Norwegian news agency NTB said. Manshaus has acknowledged the facts but denies the accusation, saying he opposes non-Western immigration.

Broadcaster NRK said that during his testimony Manshaus claimed the white race will end up as a minority in their own home countries and criticized those who "blackmail national socialism.

In court, Manshaus, 22, described how he killed his 17-year-old stepsister, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, by shooting her four times three in the head and one in the chest with a hunting rifle at their home in the Oslo suburb of Baerum. Ihle-Hansen was adopted from China as a ...