NORWAY HERO

German roofer hailed as hero for saving Norwegian teens from shooting

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Marcel Gleffe, who led many teens to safety in Norwegian massacre




In the wake of last week's devastating shooting attack on the Norwegian island of Utøya, several tales of individual heroism and survival are now starting to emerge.

One 32-year-old roofer from Germany, for example, sped on his boat to the island, and helped guide many young people who had tried to swim away from the massacre back safely to shore.

"I just did it on instinct," Marcel Gleffe told The Telegraph. "You don't get scared in a situation like that, you just do what it takes. I know the difference between fireworks and gunfire. I knew what it was about, and that it wasn't just nonsense."

Gleffe was camping with his parents on the mainland directly across from Utøya. The three were discussing the recent bombing in Oslo when Gleffe heard some shots and then saw a teenager swimming to shore, yelling "help," he told Der Spiegel. He immediately realized that the shooting he heard was connected to the Oslo bombing, and he jumped in a small boat his family had rented for the trip and began speeding to the island.




Gleffe says he helped at least 20 teens get to shore, throwing out life jackets and making several trips in his boat to the island and back to the mainland. Some of the fleeing teenagers were frightened to accept his help, since the accused gunman was dressed as a policemen and told his victims to come closer before he opened fire. "It was unbelievable to see how strong they were," he told Der Spiegel of the campers. At least 150 people were pulled out of the water after the massacre, and psychologists told the German paper that many of them are suffering from crushing survivors' guilt.

One survivor, 16-year-old Ingvild Stensrud, told Ann Curry on the Today Show that after she'd been shot in the leg, she played dead in order to survive. She lay under the body of a dead woman until the shooter left the buildinG.

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[pharmacist1958]

Not only Germany but the whole world is proud of you.

With highest respect.

[miki1900]

If I am the Norway King, i will give noble to Marcel Gleffe.

you have my sympathy fromHungary

[joshizdebest420]

@plasticboy81 lol u mad?

[plasticboy81]

@joshizdebest420

your the who molested people here on youtube..stupid idiot.

[joshizdebest420]

He then molested everyone he helped

[gamestarboy2]

repsekt und guter retter

[PrinzVidar]

@dpremi1126 LMAO!!!

[tomcat624u]

@dpremi1126 GEERT WILDERS FOR PRESIDENT!

[dpremi1126]

Greet wilder is an isreal agent whose mission is to be creat hate for Islam and Muslims in all over the Europe . those who support this type of dirty hate creator criminal must learn a lesson by Norway blast in which many innocent killed by a a Zionist brain wash Christian andre brikivs. Don’t be the victim of Islam phobia which is running by some of Zionist supported channel 24/7 who mission sympathy and benefit for isreal in billions to kill innocent Pa by European hardworking tax money

[borgjoakim]

It is a tragedy and he is a hero. Now i se that there is intollerans in the coments your intollerans is tragic.

It isnt good for you and it isnt god for the society.

We can all live together in an open society and take care of each other. There is not true that there is a mass immigration. in sweden for example i loked at the statistik there has been an imigation rise a year by aproximal 12 329 a year since 1865. On that time there is time for jobb and education. inhbitants in sweden 9 446 812

[borgjoakim]

Yes hes a hero and those who are making political positioning to get away from the blame that lies within ideas that are intollerant i can only say. It isnt good for you or the society. We can build society opened with respect and with supportiv solidarity. But than you have to put intollerans away.