Convicted Norweigen mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, says today his more than five-year prison isolation has radicalized him,
“I’ve become more radical. I was radical to start but these past five years I’ve become much more radical,” the 37-year-old says as he gives evidence against the state, which has appealed a lower court ruling that found it guilty of treating him “inhumanely,” primarily because of his isolation from other inmates.
In July 2011 Breivik, disguised as a police officer, tracked and gunned down 69 people, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya, shortly after he killed eight people in a bombing outside a government building in Oslo.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik making a neo-Nazi salute, as judges began reviewing a government appeal against a ruling that his solitary confinement was inhumane and violated human rights on Jan. 10, 2017. (Lise Aaserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
In prison, the extremist has three cells where he can play video games and watch television on two sets. He also has a computer without internet access, gym machines, books and newspapers.
Despite the comfortable material conditions, an Oslo district court last April found the Norwegian state guilty of “inhumane” and “degrading” treatment, in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
— AFP
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