Breivik will be held in closing off inside Ila Prison on the outskirts of Oslo inside comparatively spacious quarters which include a separate exercising room, a computer and a television. Criminal guiltiness was never an issue since Breivik admitted and described in awful detail his murders. His 10-week trial centered on his saneness, with prosecutors arguing he ought to be adjudged insane and held in a mental institution, not jail
A Norwegian court ascertained Anders Behring Breivik sane on Friday and gave him a maximal jail condition for murdering seventy-seven people in a shooting and bombarding last year, offering closure to a Nordic nation ruined by its worst attack since World War Two.
Breivik, who has accepted blowing up the Oslo government headquarters with a fertilizer bomb, killing 8, prior to gunning down 69 at the ruling party’s summer youth camp, was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison, the maximum penalty in Norway.
But officials may prevent his release indefinitely and are anticipated to do so if the anti-Muslim right-winger still poses a threat. Breivik had disapproved prosecutors’ arguings that he was insane, and had told he would appeal if he were ruled mad.
“In a unanimous decision … the court sentences the suspect to twenty-one years of preventive custody,” told judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen, dismissing the prosecutor’s call for a verdict that would have labelled Breivik mad and have confined him indefinitely to psychiatrical care.
The killings shook this nation of five million which had prided itself as a safe haven from much of the world’s troubles, arousing questions about the preponderance of far-right views in a country where oil wealth has appealed rising immigration.
