Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 individuals in gun and bomb assaults in 2011, was denied parole on Tuesday by a Norwegian courtroom that stated he “appeared devoid of empathy and compassion for the victims of the terror.”.
Mr. Breivik, 42, who has served 10 years of a 21-year sentence for the assaults, confirmed no indicators that his extremist views had waned throughout his years of incarceration. When the parole listening to started on Jan. 18, he entered the courtroom and made a Nazi-style salute. He additionally carried and wore indicators emblazoned with racist messages, together with one which learn “Stop your genocide against our white nations.”
Speaking to the decide, Mr. Breivik demanded that he be handled as a prisoner of conflict.
Judge Dag Bjorvik oversaw the parole listening to, which lasted for 2 weeks and was held at Skien jail for safety causes.
Mr. Breivik’s lawyer, Oystein Storrvik, confirmed that they’d attraction the decision, after expressing pessimism at first of the listening to. “No Norwegian lawyer wants a case to begin with a Hitler salute,” he stated in an interview with The Times final month. He stated he was not significantly involved with Mr. Breivik successful his parole, including that his long-term technique was to “improve the conditions under which he is sitting” in jail.
On July 22, 2011, Mr. Breivik detonated a fertilizer bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight individuals. He then went on a taking pictures rampage at a summer season camp on the island of Utoya, killing 69 individuals, most of them youngsters. The camp was organized by the youth arm of the nation’s center-left Labor Party.
The judgment stated Mr. Breivik “verbally expressed grief over those affected — but at the same time, he defended and possibly legitimized his actions by saying that most of those affected on Utoya were not children, but people with ‘leadership positions.’ This despite the fact that he must know that among those killed were children as young as 14 years old.”
At the beginning of the parole listening to, Hulda Karlsdottir, the lead prosecutor, stated that Mr. Breivik ought to stay in jail and that he would “remain dangerous after serving his sentence.”
She added: “Both the survivors and relatives alike are left with bottomless grief, and the atrocities committed are unparalleled in Norwegian history.”
Mr. Breivik, who legally modified his identify to Fjotolf Hansen in 2017, stated he had carried out the assault as a part of a violent marketing campaign towards a Muslim invasion of Europe, which he stated was contributing to the nation’s “cultural suicide.”
Mr. Breivik was convicted on terrorism and homicide fees in 2012 and sentenced to 21 years in jail, the utmost underneath Norwegian regulation. The sentence could be prolonged indefinitely if he’s deemed a continued risk to society.
Mr. Breivik final appeared earlier than Norwegian and European courts in 2016 to argue that his long-term solitary confinement amounted to torture. He is being held in a three-room suite that features a treadmill, a fridge, a tv with a DVD participant and a Sony PlayStation. He has additionally threatened to go on a starvation strike.
Lisbeth Kristine Royneland, a spokeswoman for the households of victims and survivors of the assaults, stated she had frightened that Mr. Breivik would use the listening to as a platform to reveal his model of violent extremism. “There should be as little focus as possible on the terrorist and his message,” stated Ms. Royneland, whose daughter Synne Royneland was killed throughout the assault on Utoya.
Pal Grondahl, a forensic psychologist in Oslo who has adopted the case, stated in an interview that Mr. Breivik appeared “to be very much the Breivik we saw both in 2012 and 2016.” He added: “Based on his behavior so far, he appears to be seeking attention without empathy, and he has some grand illusions about himself.”