An ultra right-wing Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people on July 22, 2011 won’t be released from prison any time soon. Even though he keeps trying to get out on probation, Anders Behring Breivik was ordered held in high-security once again last week.
Breivik, now age 45, was sentenced in 2012 to Norway’s strictest term at the time: 21 years in prison with forvaring, which means that any potential release even after he’s served 21 years must be reviewed by a judge. If he’s still found to present a threat to society, his prison term will be extended.
He was sent back to jail after three days in court last month when he’d first become eligible for parole. The judge in the case ruled that requirements for an early release had not been met and that Breivik must remain in the high-security Ringerike Prison south of Hønefoss. He filed an immediate appeal.
During his court appearance he apologized for the first time, for killing eight people after he’d bombed Norway’s government headquarters in Oslo and then for gunning down another 69 people, most of them young members of the Norwegian Labour Party who were attending an annual youth summer camp on the island of Utøya. He wounded scores more and testified in court that he has since distanced himself from such violence but not his radical right-wing political ideology. He asked for support for Russia, China and Iran while in court, and that he wanted the US president-elect Donald Trump to stop what he called NATO’s war against Russia.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
