A district court concluded that it was necessary to maintain the detention in the interest of public safety.
A Norwegian court has rejected the mass murderer's second request for parole Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting in 2011.
The Ringerike, Asker and Bærum district court held a parole hearing for the 45-year-old neo-Nazi, who is serving a 21-year sentence, last month. In a written verdict dated Wednesday, it said Breivik's request was denied and that it considered it obvious that he was necessary to maintain detention in the interest of public safety.
He said it was positive that Breivik had embarked on programs that could have a rehabilitative effect, but that had not yet progressed sufficiently enough to have a significant impact on assessments of the risk of reoffending.
Breivik was convicted in 2012 of mass murder and terrorism for an attack that killed eight people at a government building in Oslo, and for a shooting on the island of Utøya, where shot dead 69 people at a holiday camp for young activists from the centre-left Labour Party.
Breivik’s bail application was heard in a makeshift courtroom in the gymnasium at Ringerike prison outside Oslo, where a similar hearing was held in January 2022. Arriving at the court last month, Breivik, dressed in a black suit, wore the letter Z shaved on the side of his head — a symbol seen on Russian tanks and other military vehicles in Ukraine and embraced by war supporters — and held a sign with a political message.
Prosecutor Hulda Olsen Karlsdottir said Breivik had not changed his ideological thinking or political position. Norwegian authorities have insisted that Breivik has the same rights as any other prisoner, arguing that treating him differently would undermine the principles that underpin Norwegian society, including the rule of law and freedom of expression.
Breivik has been held in solitary confinement since he began serving his sentence in 2012 and He has repeatedly claimed that his treatment amounts to inhuman punishment under the European Convention on Human Rights.On all occasions the courts have rejected their allegations.
At Ringerike prison, he is held in a two-storey complex with a kitchen, dining room and TV room with a video game console, several armchairs and black-and-white photos of the Eiffel Tower on the wall. There is also an exercise room with weights, a treadmill and a rowing machine.
(With information from AP)
Source: INFOBAE
It is absolutely impossible for a terrorist who mass murdered 77 people to be granted freedom. That madman should not be in the free community because it would send the wrong message to others who think of heartless violence against the people. He really should have been sentenced to death because the world would be safer without beasts like him.
But if he is in a cell that is more than VIP, what is this scoundrel and more than a Nazi murderer complaining about! He does not feel the rigor of prison at all like other prisoners in general in the world. This world is crazy publishing complaints about this vile subject!