Photos from Anders Breivnik's Facebook page
The Pole was questioned by investigators in Wroclaw, western Poland after the Norwegian suspected of murdering 93 people last Friday bought chemicals from him late last year.
Police say the man is only helping with enquiries and is not a suspect in the case.
Last December Anders Breivik, who set off bombs in Oslo before moving on to shoot over 80 people on the island of Utoya, purchased 0.3 kg of sodium nitrite for 10 euros and 150 kg of powdered aluminum for 2,000 euros and paid for the items by bank transfer from an account under the agricultural business name Breivik Geofarm.
According to a 1500-page 'manifesto' published in English on the internet, the far-right nationalist with a hatred for Islam wrote that he purchased farmland in the Hedmark area of Norway as part of his murderous preperations for the mass killings.
He claimed that he had bought the land to grow sugar beets because they require a large amount of fertiliser, though he actually intended to use the chemicals to make bombs.
In total he ordered around six tons of fetiliser from various sources, it is believed.
Police in Poland have been reluctant to give mnore information, however.
“I can only say that on Friday we received a request from Norwegian police to verify certain information and we checked it,” said Mariusz Sokolowski, a spokesman for the national police headquarters said earlier, Monday.
“We made further investigations and on Sunday, together with officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation we executed procedural steps with the prosecutor,” he said.
The district prosecutor's office in Wroclaw was similarly reluctant to release details, but confirmed that “measures were taken on Sunday.”
In the rambling 1500 manifesto released onto the internet, the Norwegian said that Poland was one of the countries he had had “the privilege of experiencing.”
Breivik, who proclaimed his bid to launch an anti-Muslim crusade, supposedly defending Europe, also declared his admiration for King Jan Sobieski, who defeated the forces of the Ottoman Empire at Vienna in 1683. (pg/nh)
source: PAP/IAR