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The Norwegian government strongly defends the police criticized for his remarks

The Norwegian government has stepped into the breach Tuesday to defend its security criticized for being slow to respond to attack by Anders Breivik Behring, who a few months ago, was spotted buying chemicals.

For the Minister of Justice Knut Storberget, the Norwegian police "has done its job extremely well" when the man who killed 76 people, set off his bomb and then the fatal shooting last week.

While the lawyer Behring Breivik said that his client was probably

"Insane," Mr.Storberget was meanwhile dealing with survivors of critical media and the time taken by the police to arrive on the island of Utoeya where 68 people were killed.

A slow addition of the charges of negligence of the authorities who have not responded to information about the suspect in March: his name appeared in a list of 50-60 people in Poland who bought chemicals can be used to manufacture of explosives.

A survivor of the island said that the police "had put a lot of time" on Friday to respond to calls for help.

Another told AFP that police had asked the residents of the lake not to approach the island by boat, they have not followed the recommendation and has saved dozens of young people in distress.

For Mr. Storberget, it is very important to have "an open and critical of how all actors in society have responded," but visiting the police, he maintained that they had "very good fulfilled their mission ", praising their" fantastic "job.

The sending of an elite unit of police at the scene of the shooting was complicated.The island is 40 km from where exploded shortly before the bomb that devastated the government district in central Oslo.

Among the problems reported are on vacation the crew of the helicopter observation of the police, an engine out of the vessel to carry armed police and another overloaded boat taking on water.

For these reasons, the security forces who captured Behring Breivik have reached the island at 6:25 p.m., 47 minutes after the formal requisition for reinforcements launched by local police ill-equipped.

The gunman, still armed, went in two minutes.

"I'm open to discussion as possible about how it was conducted," said the minister.

However, he said, "I must say that the police had done its job very well ... (including) the critical points".

Nevertheless, he admitted "the mistake of the police for not having paid more attention to the threat posed by the extreme right."

Expert in intelligence matters, Shashank Joshi's Royal United Services Institute in London noted that "many, many people are identified when searching for information but it is impossible to follow them all."

He explained to AFP Tuesday that "the low allocation of resources" to monitor the far right has combined with the general lack of preparedness of the Europeans to deal with attacks on the firearm.Rather, they are prepared to bomb threats.

"It is very unusual to have a car bomb with as much explosives combined with a fatal shooting," he noted.

He recalled the huge attack in November 2008 in India, which had 166 deaths in Bombay. It took ten hours for the commandos can intervene, he said.

An hour to intervene Utoeya is considerable, "but simply Oslo was not prepared for such event," says Joshi.