Anders Behring Breivik (44) has been imprisoned since the early evening of 22 July 2011, when he was arrested on Utøya. He has been in Ila, Skien and now Ringerike. The terrorist-convicted mass murderer has previously sued the state for the conditions of his sentence, but did not win in the court system. Now he gets to try his case again. Own kitchen, exercise room and three budgies are not enough. He feels isolated – and thinks he is getting sick. The government attorney does not agree, and believes the conditions are justifiable. Breivik will appear in a provisional courtroom in Ringerike prison on Monday, after he has again sued the state for the conditions of his sentence. Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Anders Behring Breivik has his own “department” in Ringerike prison over two floors. There is, among other things, a kitchen, a TV room and three budgies. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB – Breivik is suicidal In a note to the court ahead of the hearing, Breivik’s lawyer Øystein Storrvik wrote that the isolation is a mental strain. “The long period of isolation and absence of meaningful interaction has now materialized in damages for Breivik, including that he is now suicidal. The isolation has become more burdensome for the plaintiff the longer time has passed. Today, Breivik only has contact with two other inmates, with whom he spends one hour every two weeks,” wrote Storrvik. Storrvik says to news that Breivik has also tried to take his own life while in prison. – He is damaged by isolation, suicidal and has had suicide attempts in the last period, the last six years, he says. The defense will not give any further details about what he calls a suicide attempt, since it will become part of the evidence and Breivik’s statement in the trial. According to news, the prison and the Correctional Service do not share the opinion that Breivik has tried to take his own life – or that he is suicidal. The government attorney also does not wish to comment on the allegations of attempted suicide and suicidality. – All aspects of Breivik’s sentence and how he is doing will be highlighted during the trial, so it is not natural to say anything more now just before the case starts, he says to news. Security assessment The government attorney believes that it is difficult to envisage justifiable reductions in Breivik’s sentencing conditions. In the final statement the Government Attorney has sent to the Oslo district court, it appears that the authorities do not believe Breivik has unreasonable terms of his sentence. This is how news covers the trial For news, it is important to also cover this trial. We have a task to document this as part of the aftermath after 22 July. We refer to the terror convict by his real name – Anders Behring Breivik – and not Fjotolf Hansen, which he changed to in 2017. The national support group after 22 July and AUF had a meeting with the Norwegian Editors’ Association ahead of the trial, where they were particularly busy that Breivik will not be given a lectern to the public this week. news does not want to give the convicted terrorist the opportunity to communicate his ideological thinking, as he has tried in the past. Our coverage must be fact-oriented and focus on the purpose of the trial: issues related to sentencing conditions. We make ongoing assessments of both image use, angles and the overall dimensioning of the case, both in news and in the media as a whole. “The experts believe that the risk associated with Breivik has, on the whole, remained unchanged since 2011. This extraordinary risk sets guidelines for which security measures have been – and are – necessary for the correctional service to establish around Breivik.” The government attorney writes that the Correctional Service is working to ensure that Breivik has as good a prison sentence as possible, within what is justifiable in terms of the security situation. This is also about Breivik’s own safety, says the final post. Storrvik, for his part, believes that the current regime deprives Breivik of the opportunity to have human contact. – The topic for the court is whether you can sentence a person to life in prison without or have any hope of establishing relationships with other people. Hunger strike It is not the first time Breivik’s state of health has been a topic. Randi Rosenqvist is among those who have spoken the most with Breivik after the terrorist attack. When the issue of parole was considered in court in 2022, she testified about his state of mind: – In 2016, he sat down and screamed in the corridor on the way to airing. In 2018, there was a case of civil disobedience where he had, among other things, spilled faeces. It didn’t last long and it was probably more unpleasant for him than for the prison. He asked for plastic gloves to avoid touching his own faeces. He didn’t get that. In 2019, there was also a period when Breivik went on hunger strike for a few days. During the trial, Rosenqvist said that Breivik is still taking the antidepressants he was prescribed after this. – He has told about the three episodes of civil disobedience carefully in advance, because he is afraid that the prison will think he is psychotic if he does. He is described as straightforward, and that it is conceivable that he seeks a little more emotional contact with the employees. The retired psychiatrist will not testify during the trial against Breivik this time. – I have the impression that Breivik’s main interest now is to create a political movement, she says to news. A few years ago, the mass murderer applied to be visited so that he could make the one contact pregnant, because it was important to carry the Aryan on. When asked whether Breivik will use the trial to broadcast his political message, his defender replies no. – This time I have the impression of a real desire for contact with other people, says Storrvik. The trials of Anders Behring Breivik In August 2012, Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced in Oslo District Court to 21 years in custody, with a minimum term of 10 years, for mass murder, for having caused a fatal bomb explosion and for terrorism. He was behind the attacks against the government quarter in Oslo and AUF’s summer camp on Utøya on 22 July 2011. 77 people were killed. Since his arrest, the terrorist has served time in a ward with a particularly high security level, first at Ila prison in Bærum and since 2013 in Skien prison. In 2022, he was transferred to Ringerike prison. Sued the state in 2015 for violations of human rights due to the prison conditions, but lost on all counts. In 2017, the case was appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, but it was also rejected there. Petitioned for parole in September 2020. In January 2022, the court denied his petition. Summonsed in 2023 the state for violations of human rights due to the conditions of the sentencing, a case which is processed from 8 January 2024.
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Breivik claims he has tried to take his own life in prison – news Buskerud – Local news, TV and radio
