Breivik made his way to tiny Utoya Island, where, dressed as a police officer and toting a virtual arsenal of weapons, he calmly and systematically hunted down and shot dead 69 others, most of them young people attending a summer camp run by the Labor Party.
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After setting off a series of bombs in downtown Oslo that killed eight people, Mr. “He is just air.”Įven more than a year later, the events of that day are still almost impossible to fathom, so brutally, methodically and callously was the attack carried out.
“Now we won’t hear about him for quite a while now we can have peace and quiet,” Per Balch Soerensen, whose daughter was among the dead, told TV2, according to The Associated Press. Like the rest of Europe - and in contrast with much of the United States, whose criminal justice system is considered by many Europeans to be cruelly punitive - Norway no longer has the death penalty and considers prison more a means for rehabilitation than retribution.Įven some parents who lost children in the attack appeared to be satisfied with the verdict, seeing it as fair punishment that would allow the country, perhaps, to move past its trauma. Rather, it is consistent with Norway’s general approach to criminal justice. Breivik, the worst criminal modern Scandinavia has known, is no anomaly. The relative leniency of the sentence imposed on Mr. He could be kept there indefinitely by judges adding a succession of five-year extensions to his sentence. Breivik is unlikely ever to be released from prison.
However, his demeanor, testimony and declaration that he would have liked to kill more people helped convince the judges that, however lenient the sentence seems, Mr. If he is not considered a threat after serving his sentence, the maximum available under Norwegian law, he will be eligible for release in 2033, at the age of 53. Breivik, lawyers say, will live in a prison outside Oslo in a three-cell suite of rooms equipped with exercise equipment, a television and a laptop, albeit one without Internet access. OSLO - Convicted of killing 77 people in a horrific bombing and shooting attack in July last year, the Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced on Friday to 21 years in prison - fewer than four months per victim - ending a case that thoroughly tested this gentle country’s collective commitment to values like tolerance, nonviolence and merciful justice.