Anders Behring Breivik has sued the Norwegian state over his solitary confinement. But for psychiatrists and prison guards it is clear: the terrorist is still as dangerous as he was twelve years ago.
In a lawsuit over the prison conditions of the now 44-year-old, Norwegian state representative Andreas Hjetland emphasized that Breivik “poses the same danger today as he did on July 21, 2011 – the eve of the two attacks he meticulously planned for years prepared.”
“His ideology remains the same, his propensity for limitless violence is clear and his personality reinforces all these factors,” Hjetland emphasizes, citing reports from psychiatrists and prison guards.
Right-wing extremists have killed dozens of people
On July 22, 2011, Breivik killed eight people with a bomb in Oslo’s government district and then shot another 69 people on Utöya island, most of them participants in a summer camp run by the Workers’ Party youth organization.
In 2012, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, followed by preventive detention. In 2022, a request for early release from prison was rejected.
Lawsuit against the Norwegian state
The convicted murderer has spent the past 11 years suing the Norwegian state for its isolation from other prisoners. According to his argument, the isolation violates Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits “inhuman” and “degrading” treatment.
The trial, which was supposed to last five days, started on Monday and will take place for security reasons in a gymnasium in Ringerike prison, where Breivik is serving his long sentence.
Murderer “threatens to commit suicide”
Breivik’s lawyer Oystein Storrvik said his client was “suicidal” and depressed because of the prison conditions. The Norwegian state states that the isolation of the 44-year-old is proportionate and justified due to the danger he poses.
Breivik was successful in a similar lawsuit in an Oslo court in 2016. However, higher courts overturned the verdict and the European Court of Human Rights dismissed his case as “inadmissible”.
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Source: Krone
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