A new psychiatric examination of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has begun, with Oslo City Court ruling that he will be assessed in jail as it is too dangerous to send him to hospital.
Newly appointed experts Terje Tørrisen and Agnar Aspaas had hoped to observe the right-wing extremist interacting with other patients at the Dikemark Sykehus institution, but will instead have to assess him in a one-man makeshift hospital room which is to be built at Ila prison.
To make matters even harder, Breivik claims he won’t co-operate with the new evaluation as he does not believe the psychiatrists are qualified to assess him. The new report was ordered in December after widespread criticism of the first evaluation, which concluded that the 32 year-old is insane.
Meanwhile, a court-appointed lawyer for the family of one of Breivik’s 77 victims may be removed from the case after allegedly leaking confidential information to the press. Officers believe they narrowed down the source from a possible 170, after a series of details from police interviews with both Breivik and survivors appeared in the national media. The court will decide this week if the lawyer is to be effectively sacked.
Quite frankly I think the Brevik affair is being handled quite nicely by the authorities here in Norway. onsidering that I am an American, I would rather be under Norweigan Courts than U.S. or a U.K. court anyday
At street level, in the workplace and behind closed doors it is nepotistic. I live in the UK and it’s an awful place for the most part. There is such a thing as fair play here though. Well qualified foreigners don’t struggle as much to land jobs over here. There isn’t as much favouritism based on nationality. Of course racism exists everywhere. In the UK, as far as I can see it is only really directed towards Pakistanis. That’s the truth and it’s not a nice one. Most people here are ignorant and two-faced.
Listen Oystein, I know you seem like a reasonable person and if I’ve raised your hackles then I can only apologise. It’s just that this Anders Breivik affair really gets under my skin. I could lash out at any European nation because they are all as bad as each other.
@Andy – I dont know anything about you, but this news from today could perhaps help you to understand a little more about this very nepotistic country
http://www.hegnar.no/okonomi/politikk/article679135.ece
Well it wasn’t. You don’t get arrested or put in prison for having a certain view do you? That’s my point. Unless he explicitly stated his monstrous intentions online or on paper and the authorities knew about them. Then of course police would be required to step in and prevent anything tragic happening.
Perhaps I should have replaced the word ‘ideology’ with ‘personal view/s’. Still, I don’t like all the attention he is afforded in the press. Would a murderous Muslim terrorist living in Norway be handled with kid gloves the same way Anders is? I very much doubt it. I’m sure it would be a case of ‘lock him up and throw away the key’. Norway is a very nepotistic country and Anders appears to be given special treatment as a result of this prevailing mindset.
There’s no reason to invest all this time and effort on psychological evaluations to ascertain whether he’s crazy or not is there? If the tests are of benefit to science then I can understand it but they aren’t. It’s just a nonsense.
One thing the public doesn’t need is more articles focusing on people like him. He doesn’t deserve the attention and stardom he gets.
“I want to know why he is being treated as a special case.” Sorry Andy, but I have absolute no problem to understand why this investigation take some time and resources. I find it a bit strange that you can conclude that his ideology was not crime.
The Norwegian authorities are behaving like morons. Do you they perform these psychological tests on every f****** murderer? It’s a waste of time unless it’s of benefit to science. I really don’t think that’s their intention though.
He killed a lot of kids therefore he poses a threat to society and should be locked up. To me he’s just another callous murderer, like many before him. That was his crime. His ideology wasn’t. I want to know why he is being treated as a special case. I don’t think there’s a sensible explanation for it.