Norway scraps plans for controversial memorial near site of 2011 Utøya terrorist attack
Plans to cut a "wound" into a Norwegian peninsula in memory of the victims of terrorist Anders Breivik have been abandoned following years of opposition from locals.
The Memory Wound memorial, by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg, was intended to commemorate the 77 people who died in the 22 July 2011 attacks, which centred on a Workers' Youth League summer camp on Utøya.
The memorial would have involved cutting a slit into the Sørbråten peninsula just across from the island, but the Norwegian government has announced it is scrapping the plans in response to a lawsuit from residents.
Norway's minister of communal affairs and modernisation, Jan Tore Sanner, told a press conference last Wednesday that Memory Wound would not be going ahead, and that a different memorial would be constructed at the Utøykaia dock where ferries depart for Utøya instead. "We have several years of debate behind us about where to place the national memorial," Sanner said. "We hope to now be able to put a dignified end to this debate."
The irate group had previously described the memorial as a "rape of nature", a "tourist attraction", and a "hideous monument". They sued the state on the grounds that the project would harm the local community and landscape.
Additionally, the residents ? a number of whom had aided victims during the attacks ? argued the planned memorial was too invasive and close to their homes.
Dahlberg is yet to comment on ...
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