Court rejects Norwegian mass killer Breivik's parole application

OSLO (Reuters) -A Norwegian court has rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s parole application, it said in a ruling on Tuesday, ordering that he must stay in prison.

Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed 77 people https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-marks-ten-years-since-breiviks-deadly-attacks-2021-07-21 in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.

On the first day of the parole hearing last month, Breivik made a white supremacist sign with his fingers before raising his right arm in a Nazi salute to signal his far-right ideology as he entered the court.

“The risk of violence is real and significant and equal to what it was when (Breivik) was first sentenced,” the district court in Telemark said in a unanimous verdict.

Breivik, 42, is serving Norway’s maximum sentence of 21 years, which can be extended indefinitely if he is deemed a continued threat to society. He attended court dressed in a suit and with his head shaven.

He was however eligible to seek parole after serving the first 10 years of his term, and is entitled to apply for release a year after each rejection.

Breivik in testimony last month blamed online radicalisation https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mass-killer-breiviks-parole-hearing-begin-tuesday-norway-2022-01-17 by far-right extremists for his crimes, saying he had been brainwashed. He said he would keeping fighting for white supremacy however, albeit with peaceful means.

The court said Breivik could not be taken at his word when he said he would no longer commit acts of violence.

“His stated assurances and word of honour have little value even if he were to mean what he says at the time he says it,” the judges wrote.

Based on the court’s findings, Breivik is unlikely at this time to be able to adjust to life outside of prison, and the risk of recidivism is significant, the judges wrote.

During trial, the court heard the testimony of prison service psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist, who said Breivik remains as likely https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norwegian-mass-killer-breivik-dangerous-now-decade-ago-court-told-2022-01-19 to commit acts of violence today as he was a decade ago.

Breivik intends to appeal the court’s decision, his lawyer Oeystein Storrvik told Reuters.

“He said straight away he wants to appeal this,” Storrvik said.

(Writing by Terje Solsvik, Editing by Alison Williams and Frank Jack Daniel)

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