The Norwegian neo-Nazi who killed 77 people sued the state and received a harsh response: “Extreme risk of unbridled violence”

Anders Behring Breivikwhich killed 77 people in 2011, still poses risks of a “Total and wanton violence”the government estimated on Tuesday Norwayagainst whom the neo-Nazi has filed a lawsuit because he believes that his prison regime violates his human rights.

Held alone in a high-security area of ​​Ringerike prison, Breivik, 44, believes his nearly 12-year solitary confinement violates Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits “inhuman treatment or punishment or degrading.”

The trial began on Monday, which for security reasons will take place in the gymnasium of Ringerike prison.

Twelve years after carrying out the bloodiest attack on Norwegian soil since World War II, Breivik presents “an absolutely extreme risk of totally unbridled violence”State Attorney Andreas Hjetland said.

On July 22, 2011, Breivik detonated a bomb near government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people, and then killed another 69 people, most of them teenagers, opening fire in a summer camp of the Labor Youth of the island of Utøya.

He was sentenced in 2012 to the maximum sentence then in force in Norway, viz 21 years in prison with the possibility of extension while he was still considered dangerous.

“Breivik represents the same danger today of 21 July 2011″, on the eve of the double attack that he had carefully prepared for many years, Hjetland argued, citing reports from psychiatrists and prison guards.

“Their ideology remains the same, His capacity for unlimited violence is evident and his personality (…) reinforces all these factors,” he said.

The day before, Breivik’s lawyer, Øystein Storrvik, had called for Breivik’s prison regime to be relaxed, claiming that his solitary confinement was making him “suicidal” and depressed.

Citing another article of the Convention on Human Rights which guarantees the right to correspondence, Breivik also calls for reducing the filtering of his foreign correspondence.

In 2016 Breivik had already taken the state to court for the same reasons and had partially won at first instance, but had failed on appeal.