Perhaps today's people have forgotten the "7.22" mass murder in Norway that shocked the world 10 years ago, and forgot the 32-year-old Norwegian fanatical neo-Nazi Breivik (Anders Behring Breivik): On July 22, 2011, Breivik first created a car explosion in the center of the Norwegian capital Oslo, simply because he was dissatisfied with the left-wing political platform of the norwegian Labor Party, and then drove to the tourist island of Uttar, 40 kilometers west of Oslo. Posing as a police officer, he brutally snipes young men and women who are attending a Labour Party summer camp. The two tragedies, which combined 77 deaths and 151 injuries, are the record holders of the highest number of murders per single murderer in Europe after World War II and the largest number of deaths at one time in Norway after World War II. Brévic and 7/22 made the originally controversial Europeans accept the new concept of "domestic terrorism", because Breivik's actions were outright terrorism, but the motives were purely domestic and almost unaffected and manipulated by external factors.
What was the penalty for such a heinous and vicious crime?
Although there are more and more countries that "abolish death", the legal system of the vast majority of countries will still increase the punishment of such vicious criminals as Breivik, so as to make him no longer have the opportunity to harm society. But on August 24, 2012, one of the most powerful Nordic countries to advocate "light sentences," the Norwegian court sentenced Breivik to 21 years in prison and ruled that he could not be released on parole for 10 years, causing a tsunami of discontent that year, so that "rumors of Breivik enjoying 'five-star treatment' in prison went viral."
To be sure, conditions in Norwegian prisons are much better than in other countries, such as those in the United States, where Breivik can read, surf the Internet, schedule his work and rest freely, and is said to have a good diet, so much so that he requires the purchase of fitness equipment in order to control his weight – and prisons in some U.S. states do not even have enough to eat. But prison is a prison after all, breivik because he is a serious criminal, most of the time is in solitude, up to 10 years of solitude, the taste may not be good.
What's more, Breivik, who had been in prison for 10 years, clearly did not see himself as enjoying "five-star treatment" and was therefore "happy here, not thinking" in prison – instead, on January 19, he clearly expressed his latest and strongest desire with practical actions: to let me go.
On this day, the 42-year-old Breivik appeared in a makeshift courtroom in a gym in Skien Prison in Norway, spending two hours seeking to be granted parole.
It turns out that the Norwegian penal code is very special, for felons, regardless of the actual length of the sentence, every five years after the completion of the minimum period of imprisonment, the opportunity to review the sentence of the detainee is given, which may result in continued imprisonment until the next five years, or immediate parole for the felon offender and thus the conditional restoration of freedom. That is to say, Breivik's 21-year sentence is largely "virtual", from the 10th year onwards, every 5 years he has a chance to "turn over", and he can go out immediately after getting it right, and he can't get out of the 21-year period, and may even die in prison.
During his 10-year career behind bars, breivik found himself to be a very different kind of person: his prolonged solitary confinement did not break his mind, on the contrary, he used this time to complete many university professional courses; he tried to beautify his "public relations image", often claiming that he had "forgotten" many of the heinous words and deeds of the past, but did not forget when he could begin to fight for parole; for 10 years he insisted that he was "in good spirits" and refused to receive any psychiatric treatment, but in the trial on January 19, He and his lawyer, Oeystein Storrvik, were right — Breivik had "mental problems" and had been "brainwashed" by extreme websites to commit crimes, so "it was time for me to get out."
Yet his neo-Nazi ideology was as stubborn as granite in his mind: on January 19, when he entered the provisional courtroom, he performed a Nazi salute in full view of the public, and a local media reporter who had followed him for 10 years was succinct: he had "no remorse or remorse" for 10 years about all the crimes he had committed, and how he had motivated him to commit such crimes, –although his lawyer spoke on his behalf a few minutes later, saying that once he was released, he would promote and defend them in a "gentle manner". Own ideas".
Randi Rosenqvist, a Norwegian prison psychiatrist who has been conducting psychiatric assessments for him since his arrest, is adamantly opposed to parole Breivik, saying after the trial that since he signed the first in-prison risk assessment of Breivik in 2012-2013, "the risk of violent crimes committed by this person has not diminished in the slightest."
Many sociologists, such as Lars Erik Berntzen, a far-right expert at the University of Bergen, have reminded the public that Breivik is trying to gain social sympathy by self-packaging manipulation and misleading public opinion in order to seek early release from prison and escape the punishment it deserves.
For now, the vast majority of Norwegian judicial circles are also opposed to parole Breivik. Prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir said after the trial that even through just these two hours of carefully crafted trial statements, "it is not difficult for us to hear why he should be locked up", and that in the prosecutor's "initial reaction and the impression of the whole process", Breivik is not only "very dangerous" but also "he has not changed since the sentencing was pronounced in 2012", so he must not be released from prison.
The maximum length of the trial is 4 days, and the final result is expected to be announced in about a week.
Although Norway's "flexible sentence" can theoretically be "both extended and shortened", according to the author's understanding of Nordic society, the probability of Breivik getting out of prison early is much greater than that of "sitting on the bottom of prison", even if not this time, the next five-year window when the blood of "7.22" is diluted by the torrent of time, what will be the situation?