Erstellt am: 22. 6. 2012 - 15:08 Uhr

Breivik trial in final stages

Reality Check: Breivik trial, Richard Branson at Rio +20, Financial transaction tax, Sudan protests, Fatou Bensouda

As the closing arguments are presented at the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the final vertict being on whether he is judged to have been sane or insane at the time he killed 77 people last July.

The ruling will determine where Breivik will spend the rest of his life.

If he is judged to have been insane, and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions, he will be put in a mental institution. crimes, his insanity would then be reviewed every 3 years, technically with the possiblity of release. If he is judged to have been sane, he will face the maximum prison sentence, which in Norway is 21 years, so in theory, he could be released in 2033.

Of course, in view of his crimes, there is no realistic possibility that he will be released regardless of whether he is ruled to be sane or insane, and as he has already recieved many threats from inmates at the maximun security prison where he is being held, so if he is jailed he will have to be held in solitary confinement.

Given this, one might assume that the mental institution might be the more desirable from Breivik's point of view. However, he has made it clear he would prefer prison, seeing himself as a political prisoner and considering himself to have done no wrong. To my mind, this viewpoint is enough to qualify him for insanity - but I'm not a psychiatrist or an expert in Norwegian law.

As Ketil Stensrud explains, for most Norwegians it's academic whether he is sane or insane - the main thing is that he never walks the streets again.

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