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Ten years after the Utøya carnage, Anders Behring Breivik calls for his release

2022-01-18T06:06:42.530Z


The Norwegian justice will examine this Tuesday the request for parole filed by Breivik, sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison with the possibility of extension.


Ten years after killing 77 people in Norway, right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik pleads on Tuesday for his release, a request doomed to failure but likely to serve as a political platform for him to the chagrin of the families of the victims.

In a relocated procedure, for security reasons, in the gymnasium of the prison of Skien where he is imprisoned, the Norwegian justice will examine the request for parole filed by Breivik, sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison with possibility of extension .

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On July 22, 2011, the right-wing extremist first detonated a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people, then killing 69 others, mostly teenagers, by opening fire on a prison camp. Labor Youth summer on the island of Utøya.

The killer, now 42, accused his victims of making the bed of multiculturalism.

"

As in any other rule of law, a convict has the right to apply for parole and Breivik has decided to make use of this right

," his lawyer, Øystein Storrvik, told AFP.

The sentence he received - a form of preventive detention which can be extended indefinitely, as long as he is considered a risk to society - had a minimum period of ten years, the maximum provided by the law at the time.

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In a country that had not seen such violent crime since the Second World War, the request for parole has, in the general opinion, no chance of succeeding.

"

He hasn't become less of an ideological extremist

," argues Tore Bjørgo, director of the Center for Research on Right-wing Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo.

He now presents himself as a National Socialist and even though he says that as far as he is concerned, the armed struggle is a phase that belongs to the past, he has in no way distanced himself from the mass killing that he has committed and that he considers totally legitimate"

, he explains.

Family pain

In the courts or in letters, notably to AFP, Breivik has in the past said he renounced violence. In 2016, during a trial against the state to protest against his prison isolation, he dared to compare himself with Nelson Mandela, who had gone from armed struggle to political combat. But the extremist, who had finished off most of his victims with a bullet to the head, never expressed any credible remorse. Hitler salute, pseudo-ideological digressions... On the contrary, he tried to divert each of his appearances in a courtroom for propaganda purposes, in accordance with what he professed in the "manifesto" he released before his visit. in action.

Each new trial, with its shocks, is painfully experienced by the relatives of the victims.

Before the new legal proceedings began, the family support group said it "

encouraged placing as little attention as possible on the terrorist and his message

".

"

Any mention of this case in general and the terrorist in particular is a great burden for survivors, relatives and all those affected by the terrorist attacks in Norway,"

he said.

The 2011 attacks inspired other attacks, including that of Christchurch in New Zealand in 2019, and planned attacks around the world.

Despite the exceptional nature of his crimes, Norway makes a point of treating Breivik like any other prisoner.

In 2016, Breivik, who has three cells in prison, a television with DVD player and game console and a typewriter, succeeded in having the State condemned for "inhuman" and "degrading" treatment in reason for keeping him apart from the other detainees.

The judgment was overturned on appeal.

The trials and the way they were conducted

”, explains Tore Bjørgo of C-REX, “

it is in a way a victory for the rule of law over the terrorist Breivik”

who wanted to destroy him.

Source: lefigaro

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