Irritating messages – Andres Breivik is not about probation – this is where the judge intervenes

Anders Behring Breivik or Fjotolf Hansen, as the convicted mass murderer is called today, appeared in public again after a long time. At ten o’clock, the 42-year-old, accompanied by several police officers, entered the sports hall in the Skien detention center to the courtroom had been remodeled.

Breivik showed his right arm and addressed the press with a placard and a message pinned to his blazer: “Stop genocide against white nations” – a mockery given that Breivik has killed 77 people.

The crimes are considered the worst act of violence in Norway’s post-war period. The judge scolded Breivik for holding up a placard while the prosecutor spoke and asked him to put the placard down.

With his performance, Breivik showed that he is not seriously trying to get his release, but wants to use the opportunity to demonstrate his racist views. That’s exactly what victims’ families and survivors feared.

The Telemark District Court will decide this week on the terrorist’s request for parole, who has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. Breivik is entitled to that. “He has this right and it is important that we follow the law,” says Geir Lippestad to 20 minutes.

Lippestad had defended Breivik at the main trial in 2012, which many Norwegians could not understand at first. “Even a terrorist must be protected by the law in a Western democracy,” Lippestad says again. As a former defense attorney for the convicted mass murderer, he does not want to comment further.

In the summer of 2012, Breivik was sentenced to the maximum sentence at the time of 21 years in preventive detention with a minimum term of ten years. This time frame included 445 days in custody. The minimum period thus expired on June 5, 2021, and the custody period is also deemed to have ended on June 5, 2032.

In contrast to a normal prison sentence, however, preventive detention means that the sentence can be extended every five years – and it therefore remains unclear whether Breivik will ever be released from prison in Skien.

Breivik is housed in the Strict Security Unit (SHS) in complete isolation – a circumstance he claimed was inhumane three years ago, but to no avail.

Prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir is currently making her plea in the makeshift courtroom. Then Behring Breivik wants to make a statement. The hearing is scheduled to last until Thursday, but could drag on until Friday. A decision could be announced as early as January.

On July 22, 2011, Breivik detonated a car bomb in the government district of Oslo, killing eight people. He then massacred the participants of the annual summer camp of the youth wing of the Social Democratic Labor Party on Utøya. 69 mostly young people were killed on the island.

Breivik named right-wing extremist and Islamophobic motives for his actions. To date, he has shown little remorse. Ten and a half years after the terrorist attacks, the public prosecutor still considers him to be someone who could commit serious crimes again and therefore to be a danger to Norwegian society. She is therefore striving for him to remain behind bars.