Hi, guys!
I just saw this on the internet:
A psychiatric evaluation of the self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has found that he was insane during his bombing and shooting attacks in which 77 people were killed in Norway, prosecutors said.
If a court agrees with the assessment, Breivik, who described himself as an anti-Muslim militant, will not get a prison sentence but will be subjected to compulsory psychiatric care, lawyers said.
"The conclusions of the forensic experts is that Anders Behring Breivik was insane," Svein Holden, a prosecutor, said, adding that Breivik had been in a state of psychosis during his attacks.
The 32-year-old confessed to killing 77 people. He carried out the attacks on 22 July, first bombing government buildings in Oslo, causing eight deaths, and then massacring young people, mostly teenagers, at a youth summer camp, connected to Norway's Labour party, on the island of Utøya. Sixty-nine people died there.
In Norway, an insanity defence requires that a defendant be in a state of psychosis while committing a crime. It supposes that the defendant has lost contact with reality to the point of no longer being in control of their actions.
The 243-page report will be reviewed by a panel from the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine, which could ask for additional information and add its own opinions.
The head of that panel said earlier that it was unlikely Breivik would be declared legally insane because the attacks had been so carefully planned and executed.
He f'cking planned the terrorist act for 10 years! He should rot in a prison, isolated.
Anyone else having thoughts about this?
I just saw this on the internet:
A psychiatric evaluation of the self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has found that he was insane during his bombing and shooting attacks in which 77 people were killed in Norway, prosecutors said.
If a court agrees with the assessment, Breivik, who described himself as an anti-Muslim militant, will not get a prison sentence but will be subjected to compulsory psychiatric care, lawyers said.
"The conclusions of the forensic experts is that Anders Behring Breivik was insane," Svein Holden, a prosecutor, said, adding that Breivik had been in a state of psychosis during his attacks.
The 32-year-old confessed to killing 77 people. He carried out the attacks on 22 July, first bombing government buildings in Oslo, causing eight deaths, and then massacring young people, mostly teenagers, at a youth summer camp, connected to Norway's Labour party, on the island of Utøya. Sixty-nine people died there.
In Norway, an insanity defence requires that a defendant be in a state of psychosis while committing a crime. It supposes that the defendant has lost contact with reality to the point of no longer being in control of their actions.
The 243-page report will be reviewed by a panel from the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine, which could ask for additional information and add its own opinions.
The head of that panel said earlier that it was unlikely Breivik would be declared legally insane because the attacks had been so carefully planned and executed.
He f'cking planned the terrorist act for 10 years! He should rot in a prison, isolated.
Anyone else having thoughts about this?
