OSLO: The teenagers he killed were not innocent non-political children but people guilty of upholding multicultural positions, the mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court yesterday.

He said the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party that he attacked was akin to the Hitler Youth movement, indoctrinating young people into hatred of Norway's cultural heritage.

''I have carried out the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack committed in Europe since the Second World War,'' he bragged.

Breivik is being tried on terrorism charges after killing 77 people last July in a bomb attack and a shooting massacre in what he claims was a defence of Norway and Europe against the spread of Islam.