2023-12-05 20:30:28
Published5. December 2023, 9:30 p.m
Norway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik loses his only prison visitor
Anders Breivik has been in solitary confinement since 2011. He had a loyal visitor for nine years. However, the mass murderer is now said to have broken off contact.
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Anders Breivik is serving a 21-year prison sentence for the murder of 77 people.
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The right-wing extremist terrorist has been visited for nine years by a trained theologian and former officer in the Norwegian armed forces.
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The breakup of the friendship is said to have come from Breivik himself. The mass murderer’s lawyer tells “Dagbladet” that he will explain the reasons for this in court.
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That’s what it’s about
Mass murderer Anders Breivik has apparently lost his only visiting friend.
A trained theologian and former officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces visited the terrorist for nine years.
Why the contact was broken off will be made public in a new court case next January.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik (44) lost a friend who had visited him in prison for nine years just a few months before the trial between him and the Norwegian state for alleged human rights violations. The reason is unclear, as the daily newspaper “Dagbladet” reports. However, the initiative is said to have come from Breivik himself. The mass murderer’s lawyer tells “Dagbladet” that he will explain the reasons for this in court. As has only now become known, the visits were stopped in March of this year.
Breivik – who is now officially called Fjotolf Hansen – has very limited human contact. The right-wing extremist terrorist is serving a 21-year prison sentence for the mass murder of 77 people on July 22, 2011. Since his arrest on the island of Utøya, he has been held in solitary confinement in various high-security prisons.
“Every person has their dignity”
Initially he was only allowed to have contact with prison staff and his lawyer – but since 2014 he has received regular visits from a trained theologian and former officer in the Norwegian armed forces. The man in his fifties remains silent about the reason why the visits were stopped.
Opposite “The daily newspaper» he says: “I don’t want to comment on it before the trial.” In 2017, he testified about the visits in court – at that time he had had 90 conversations with the terrorist, typical meetings lasted an hour and a half – with Plexiglas in between: “Every Tuesday I would like to contribute a little to the everyday life of perhaps the most despised person in Norway to do better.” He insisted that every person has dignity and needs someone to talk to. He and Breivik had “meaningful and good communication” – often about “big topics” such as elections, ideology, narcissism and Utøya.
He is suing the Norwegian state
Breivik himself said in several court appearances that he valued his visiting friend – even though he complained about the man in the last trial last year. The new trial will take place in the second week of January 2024, in which Breivik sued the Norwegian state for human rights violations related to his prison conditions. The right-wing extremist believes that the punishment is a violation of Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.
This is the second time Breivik has gone to court with this. In 2016/17 he was initially successful on the issue of Article 3 before the Oslo District Court, but the state won on all points before the Court of Appeal. The case was then dismissed, first at the Supreme Court, then at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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