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appalachiablue

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Tue Jan 18, 2022, 08:07 PM Jan 2022

Norwegian Mass Murderer Asks Court For Parole 'I Was Brainwashed' Gave Nazi Salute: Far Rt Extremist



- Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik appears in court appealing for early release - BBC News, Jan. 18, 2022. In 2011 Anders Breivik murdered 77 people, many of them young people attending a summer camp, and was sentenced to 21 years in prison - but has now appeared in court appealing for early release.

The right-wing extremist argues he should be given the chance of parole after ten years behind bars.
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- Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik appears before parole hearing. The Guardian, Jan. 18, 2022.
Far-right mass murderer has served 10 years of a 21-year sentence for 2011 shootings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/norwegian-mass-killer-anders-breivik-begins-parole-hearing

Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right mass murderer behind the country’s worst peacetime massacre, has appeared in court asking to be released on parole after serving 10 years in prison in near isolation for killing 77 people in a double bomb & gun attack in 2011. Breivik – who legally changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen in 2017 – attacked the country’s govt. quarter in Oslo with a van bomb before heading to a youth camp being held by the country’s Labour party on the island of Utøya where he killed 69 people, most of them teenagers, in a gun attack.
During an hour-long speech at the hearing, in which Breivik flashed a Nazi salute, he said he had put violence behind him, offering to give up far-right politics & live abroad if he were released...
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Norwegian Mass Murderer Asks Court For Parole 'I Was Brainwashed' Gave Nazi Salute: Far Rt Extremist (Original Post) appalachiablue Jan 2022 OP
So, he wasn't sorry for his mass murders Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #1
I hope they keep him locked up... Bluethroughu Jan 2022 #2

Farmer-Rick

(10,154 posts)
1. So, he wasn't sorry for his mass murders
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 08:54 PM
Jan 2022

And he's throwing around Nazi salutes. Yeah, not a good candidate for parole if you ask me. I suspect he would do it again if given a chance.

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