TYRISTRAND, Norway: Legal professionals for Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik advised a courtroom on Monday (Jan 8) he was affected by “deep melancholy” and not wished to stay as they launched a authorized bid to elevate 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 circumstances 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 must not ever come out once more,” Lie advised Reuters.
Breivik walked into the listening to flanked by three safety guards. Sporting a black go well with, white shirt and brown tie, Breivik stated nothing and sat impassively as his authorized group laid out his case.
“He has been remoted for about 12 years … He lives in a totally locked world,” his lawyer, Oeystein Storrvik, advised the choose
“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 elevate restrictions on his correspondence with the skin world.
Legal professionals representing the justice ministry say Breivik have to be saved aside the remainder of the jail inhabitants due to the persevering with safety menace he poses.
“A very harmful inmate requires extraordinary measures,” lawyer Andreas Hjetland advised the courtroom on Monday.
“He’s nonetheless happy with what he has finished. 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 toilet, photos from a go to final month by information company NTB confirmed.
Authorities legal professionals stated in a courtroom submitting that Breivik’s isolation was “relative” as he has contact with guards, a priest, well being professionals and, till lately, an out of doors volunteer that Breivik not needs to see.
He additionally sees two inmates for an hour each different week, the legal professionals 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 advised by the top of the jail to not speak to reporters.
“It’s not as a result of I do not wish to, it’s as a result of I can not,” he stated.
The choose will give a verdict in coming weeks. There is no such thing as a jury.
Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence – the longest a Norwegian courtroom can impose – which may be prolonged for so long as he’s deemed a menace to society.
His jail is on the shore of Tyrifjorden lake, the place the island of Utoeya, the positioning 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 remedy or punishment”.
He initially received the case however that was overturned on attraction a 12 months later earlier than any restrictions had been lifted.
