Tugging frantically at the water-logged jumper dragging him down in the lake, Björn Ihler turned to the shore. Ten metres away, killer Anders Breivik watched his desperation, poised for his chance.
The crazed gunman and the 20-year-old locked glances for a second.
Then Breivik took aim.
“He looked calm, focused. I remember the feeling in that second, the feeling of ‘I’m going to die now, this is my last moment’. It was an acceptance in the end,” says Björn, quietly. “It was almost serene.
“And then he pulled his trigger, fired – and missed. The bullet could only have been centimetres away.”
This is the moment Björn, now 23, relives in nightmares, the moment he almost became Breivik’s 78th murder victim four years ago this July, on the idyllic Norwegian island of Utoya.
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