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Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET: OSLO -- A Norwegian court ruled Friday that
confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was sane, deciding he was
criminally responsible for the massacre of 77 people last summer.
Reading the ruling, Judge Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen said that "in a unanimous
decision ... the court sentences the defendant to 21 years of preventive
detention."
However, such sentences can be extended under Norwegian law as long as an
inmate is considered dangerous. Experts have said Breivik is likely to spend
the rest of his life behind bars. Norway doesn't have the death penalty.
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Prosecutors had demanded a verdict of insanity, a fate Breivik called "worse
than death," while many of his victims had said only a sane person could
have carried out such a complex attack.
Breivik, 33, detonated a fertilizer bomb outside a government building that
included the prime ministerial offices last July, killing eight, then gunned
down 69 people, mostly teenagers, at the ruling Labor Party's youth camp on
Utoya island.
After the ruling, Breivik told the court he would not appeal the decision.
"He is getting what he deserves," Alexandra Peltre, 18, whom Breivik shot in
the thigh on Utoya, told Reuters. "This is karma striking back at him. I do
not care if he is insane or not, as long as he gets the punishment that he
deserves."
Another survivor of the massacre, Eivind Rindal, told the Norwegian
newspaper VG that “it is important that the defendant gets his punishment
but the most important thing is that he never gets out.”
“There are many who shared his extreme views in our society,” Rindal added
, according to an English translation in the Telegraph newspaper.
Trine Aamodt, whose 19-year-old son was shot at Utoya, told VG she was “
happy with the verdict of sanity and am also very glad that there was
consensus from all the judges.”
Guilt never a question
Guilt had never been a question in the trial as Breivik described in
chilling detail how he hunted down his victims, some as young as 14, with a
shot to the body and then one or more bullets to the head.
The killings shook this nation of five million people which had prided
itself as a haven from much of the world's troubles, raising questions about
the prevalence of far-right views as immigration rises. |
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