According to NTB, the ruling from the district court of Ringerike, Asker and Bærum stated that the risk of reoffending had not been reduced since Breivik's conviction in 2012. It should be noted positively that the right-wing terrorist has begun to take part in rehabilitative measures. However, these have not yet had any effect, according to the NTB ruling.
Breivik, who now calls himself Fjotolf Hansen, killed a total of 77 people on July 22, 2011 in the Oslo government district and among mostly young people on the island of Utøya. For this, he was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years of preventive detention with a minimum period of ten years – the highest sentence known to Norwegian jurisprudence at the time. Since the end of the minimum period, he has been allowed to request judicial review at regular intervals to determine whether he can be released early. His first attempt failed at the beginning of 2022.
During this latest trial, there was a new assessment of the right-wing terrorist's mental health for the first time since Breivik's conviction in 2012. The experts came to the conclusion that the 45-year-old was not psychotic or mentally ill.
