Far-right extremist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, has parole request rejected
The Norwegian judiciary on Tuesday rejected a request by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik for parole just 10 years after he killed 77 people in the Nordic country.
"There is a clear risk that (Breivik) will return to the behaviour that led to the July 22 terrorist attacks," the Telemark District Court ruled, rejecting the request for release.
As Breivik has never shown remorse after perpetrating the bloodiest crime ever committed in Norway in peacetime, this court decision was widely expected.
On 22 July 2011, he first detonated a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people, and then killed 69 others, mostly teenagers, by opening fire on a Labour Youth summer camp on the island of Utøya.
The 42-year-old right-wing extremist was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison, the maximum sentence that can be extended for as long as he remains a threat to society.
The verdict had a minimum period of ten years, after which he could apply for parole.
He did so at an 18 to 20 January hearing held, for security reasons, in the gymnasium of Skien prison (south), where he is incarcerated
During the hearing, prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir argued Breivik still is “a very dangerous man” and “has not shown any genuine remorse in court.”
A psychiatrist who has observed him since 2012, testified that Breivik can’t be trusted while a prison official told the hearing that “there is an imminent danger” that, if released, Breivik would again commit serious crimes.
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