OSLO, NORWAY --
A prosecutor in Norway stated Thursday that a far-right extremist who killed 77 individuals in 2011 nonetheless is "a really harmful man" and subsequently a poor candidate for launch after 10 years in jail, as Norwegian regulation permits.
On the ultimate day of a three-day parole listening to, prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir stated in her closing argument that Anders Behring Breivik "has not proven any real regret in court docket" and his conduct there may be a part of a "PR stunt."
"Within the clear view of the prosecution, Breivik's request for parole shouldn't be granted," Karlsdottir stated.
Breivik professed white supremacist views and flashed Nazi salutes on the listening to's opening day, whereas claiming to have renounced violence. He repeated once more Thursday, as he was given the final phrase because the listening to closed, that he was refraining from violence.
His lawyer ├ÿystein Storrvik stated in his closing arguments that Breivik ought to be launched to show that he's reformed and now not a menace to society, and that isn't attainable to show whereas he's in complete isolation.
Storrvik referred to as it "a paradox that an individual is handled so badly in jail that he by no means will get higher. He by no means will get out."
A psychiatrist who has noticed him since 2012 testified Wednesday that Breivik cannot be trusted. A jail official advised the judges listening to the parole request "there may be an imminent hazard" that, if launched, Breivik would once more commit critical crimes.
"This court docket case simply confirms how harmful he's," Lisbeth Kristine Royneland, who heads a household and survivors assist group, advised The Related Press.
Forward of the parole listening to, they feared that Breivik would use the chance to precise his views to likeminded individuals.
"And that is what he did," stated Royneland who misplaced her daughter within the assault.
"Clearly this has been extraordinarily attempting for survivors, the bereaved and Norwegian society as an entire," stated Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, a regulation professor at Oslo College.
"As we have seen in court docket, that is due process, due course of being supplied to a terrorist on the similar stage as anybody else, every other prisoner within the Norwegian system," she advised the AP.
Breivik is serving Norway's most 21-year sentence for setting off a bomb in Oslo's authorities district and finishing up a taking pictures bloodbath at a summer time camp for left-wing youth activists. He has three cells to himself within the high-security wing of Skien jail. The cells are outfitted with online game consoles, a tv, a DVD participant, digital typewriter, newspapers and train machines. He additionally has day by day entry to a bigger train yard.
In 2016, he sued the federal government, saying his isolation from different prisoners, frequent strip searches and the truth that he was typically handcuffed in the course of the early a part of his incarceration violated his human rights.
He was declared criminally sane at his trial, though the prosecution argued that he was psychotic. He did not enchantment his sentence however unsuccessfully sued the federal government for human rights violations for denying him the best to speak with sympathizers.
Though Norway's most jail sentence is 21 years, Breivik might be held longer underneath a provision that permits authorities to maintain criminals in jail for so long as they're thought-about a menace to society.
The three-judge Telemark District Court docket is predicted to rule on his parole request later this month.
Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed to this report.
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik arrives in court docket on the primary day of a listening to the place he's looking for parole, in Skien, Norway, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB scanpix through AP)
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