TYRISTRAND, Norway: Attorneys for Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik informed a courtroom on Monday (Jan 8) he was affected by “deep despair” and not needed to stay as they launched a authorized bid to carry his years of isolation in jail.
The far-right fanatic who killed 77 folks in a bombing and taking pictures rampage in 2011 is suing the state, arguing that his jail situations violate his human rights.
Amongst these watching the proceedings in a courtroom arrange in a health club in Norway’s the high-security Ringerike jail was Freddy Lie, certainly one of whose daughters was shot useless by Brevik. One other daughter was wounded. “He mustn’t ever come out once more,” Lie informed Reuters.
Breivik walked into the listening to flanked by three safety guards. Carrying a black go well with, white shirt and brown tie, Breivik stated nothing and sat impassively as his authorized crew laid out his case.
“He has been remoted for about 12 years … He lives in a totally locked world,” his lawyer, Oeystein Storrvik, informed the decide
“He doesn’t want to be alive anymore,” Storrvik added. In a single incident in 2018, Breivik wrote the Norwegian phrases for “KILL ME” on the wall of his cell utilizing his faeces, the lawyer stated.
Breivik murdered eight folks with a automotive bomb in Oslo then gunned down 69 others, most of them youngsters, at a Labour Occasion youth camp on Jul 22, 2011. It stays Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity.
The 44-year-old is because of converse himself on Tuesday. He’s additionally asking the courtroom to carry restrictions on his correspondence with the skin world.
Attorneys representing the justice ministry say Breivik should be stored aside the remainder of the jail inhabitants due to the persevering with safety risk he poses.
“A very harmful inmate requires extraordinary measures,” lawyer Andreas Hjetland informed the courtroom on Monday.
“He’s nonetheless pleased with what he has carried out. He nonetheless holds the identical ideological views,” Hjetland stated.
Breivik shook his head in disagreement.
BREIVIK SAYS HE CAN’T SPEAK TO MEDIA
Breivik spends his time in a devoted part of Ringerike jail, with a coaching room, a kitchen, a TV room and a rest room, photos from a go to final month by information company NTB confirmed.
Authorities attorneys stated in a courtroom submitting that Breivik’s isolation was “relative” as he has contact with guards, a priest, well being professionals and, till just lately, an outdoor volunteer that Breivik not needs to see.
He additionally sees two inmates for an hour each different week, the attorneys stated.
On the finish of the primary break in Monday’s proceedings, Breivik turned to a guard, going through the media, and stated he had been informed by the top of the jail to not speak to reporters.
“It’s not as a result of I do not need to, it’s as a result of I am unable to,” he stated.
The decide will give a verdict in coming weeks. There isn’t any jury.
Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence – the longest a Norwegian courtroom can impose – which might be prolonged for so long as he’s deemed a risk to society.
His jail is on the shore of Tyrifjorden lake, the place the island of Utoeya, the location of Breivik’s taking pictures spree, lies.
Breivik additionally sued the state in 2016, arguing it was breaching the European Conference on Human Rights, together with sections saying nobody ought to be topic to “torture or to inhuman or degrading therapy or punishment”.
He initially received the case however that was overturned on attraction a 12 months later earlier than any restrictions have been lifted.
