Breivik charged with terror attacks - Gayo Lues

Prosecutors read out the charges to Breivik at a prison outside Oslo on Wednesday, however they said the confessed killer likely won’t go to prison for Norway’s worst peacetime massacre.

The 33-year-old right-wing extremist has been considered psychotic and will seek a sentence of involuntary commitment to psychiatric care instead of imprisonment, unless new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to start in April.

“Regardless of the sentence, we have promised that we will do whatever we can to keep him away from society as long as the system allows us,” prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh said.

The maximum term a convict could face is 21 years under the Norwegian law, but sentences can be prolonged indefinitely for inmates deemed to pose a danger to Norwegian society. Similar rules apply in psychiatric care.

Driven by his fascist and anti-Islamic beliefs, Breivik killed 77 people in a car bomb attack on the government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting rampage on Utoeya Island on July 22, 2011.

Engh said 34 of the victims at Utoya were between 14 and 17 years old, 22 were aged 18-20, six were between 21 and 25 and seven were older than 25.

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