Prosecutors in Norway say the far-right extremist’s parole request needs to be denied as a result of there’s a ‘actual danger’ that he’ll commit one other violent crime.
Norwegian mass assassin Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 individuals in a 2011 bombing and capturing spree, appeared in court docket on Tuesday searching for parole for a second time.
Breivik, 45, has to date served 13 years of a most sentence of 21 years in jail, however is eligible for a parole listening to below Norwegian legislation after 10 years imprisonment.
Authorities have mentioned the far-right extremist’s parole request needs to be denied as a result of there may be nonetheless a “certified and actual” danger that he’ll commit one other severe violent crime if he’s launched.
Arriving at court docket on Tuesday wearing a black go well with, Breivik displayed the letter “Z” shaved into the facet of his head — an emblem related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — and carried a poster bearing a political message.
Breivik has repeatedly claimed that his situations in jail quantity to inhumane remedy below the European Conference on Human Rights, though Norwegian courts have repeatedly rejected his complaints.
Authorities preserve that Breivik has the identical rights as some other prisoner, asserting that treating him in another way would undermine Norway’s dedication to the rule of legislation.
Since 2012, Breivik has been held in isolation however was transferred two years in the past to Ringerike jail, the place he resides in a two story unit. His dwelling area features a kitchen, eating room, TV room with an Xbox, and a health space with train gear.
The parole listening to is being performed in a makeshift courtroom within the jail’s gymnasium, the identical venue the place his earlier bid for launch was heard in January 2022.
Breivik was convicted in 2012 of mass homicide and terrorism for a bombing in Oslo that killed eight individuals, and a capturing bloodbath on Utøya island that killed 69 younger Labor Social gathering activists attending a summer time camp.
