German police are investigating claims that Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik sent copies of his 1,500-page manifesto to extremists in Germany, a senior officer said Tuesday, dpa reported.
An anti-rightwing organization reported that Breivik sent the document, justifying last week's deadly twin attacks on Oslo and a youth camp, to German neo-Nazis in cities including Dortmund.
"We are of course investigating this," said the chief criminal police officer in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Gatzke. They had maintained a close eye on right-wing extremists since the attacks, he added.
"No great cheer has erupted in that scene," Gatzke said, adding that the overriding response was that it was "not in order" to target young people in terrorist attacks.
Berlin officials previously said Breivik had no links to Germany.
Breivik has confessed to having carried out Friday's bombing in Oslo and the shootings at Labour Party youth camp on Utoya Island in which a total of 76 people were killed.
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