A Norwegian courtroom denied mass assassin Anders Behring Breivik’s parole request on Wednesday.
The Ringerike, Asker and Baerum District Court docket determined that Breivik won’t be launched on probation from jail. The courtroom believes that the situations for probation aren’t met, and the demand for launch is due to this fact not upheld. The decision is unanimous.
“I’ve spoken to Breivik, and I take it to imply that he desires to attraction,” Breivik’s lawyer, Oystein Storrvik, advised the Norwegian information company NTB.
Breivik appeared in courtroom on Nov. 19 to argue he must be launched after spending greater than 13 years in jail.
This marks the second time Breivik’s parole request has been rejected, following an earlier denial in 2022.
Earlier this yr, the Oslo District Court docket dominated towards Breivik in a lawsuit he filed difficult the situations of his imprisonment.
On July 22, 2011, Breivik carried out one among Norway’s most devastating assaults, starting with a automotive bomb explosion outdoors the federal government headquarters in Oslo that killed eight individuals. He then opened hearth at a youth summer season camp organized by the ruling Labor Social gathering on Utoya Island, killing 69 people, most of them youngsters.
In 2012, the Oslo District Court docket sentenced Breivik to 21 years in jail, the utmost sentence below Norwegian regulation, with the potential for extension. The decision marked a authorized conclusion to one of many darkest days within the nation’s historical past.
