To the courtroom arrived the terrorist-convicted Anders Behring Breivik with a political poster. On the side of his head, he has shaved in a "Z" – which, among other things, has been used as a propaganda symbol for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I am not a human being. I have not been a human being for 13 years. I am a collectivist. And I am a political soldier who continues to serve my followers, says Breivik to a gathered press corps.
Psychiatric Report
At the center of the trial is a new psychiatric report on the mass murderer's mental health. In it, a number of experts have assessed whether he has undergone any changes since he was convicted, whether he is still dangerous, and whether there is a risk that he will commit new serious violent crimes if he is released now.
He has the right to apply for a time-limited sentence to be lifted. It is a right he has and a right he exercises, says Øystein Storrvik, Breivik's defense attorney, to NTB.
69 Dead
Anders Behring Breivik murdered 69 people in an act during the Norwegian Labour Party's youth league AUF's summer camp on the island of Utøya in the summer of 2011. On the same day, he detonated a bomb in the government quarter in Oslo, which cost eight people their lives.
The 45-year-old is serving a sentence of 21 years of so-called custody – a prison sentence that can be extended – for the terrorist acts. But prisoners in Norway have the right to a court review of conditional release when ten years of the sentence have been served. In February 2022, he was denied a first request.
Breivik will testify for three hours on Tuesday, according to NTB. The trial is expected to last for three days in total.
