By John Johnson
Those who thought Anders Behring Breivik got a ridiculously light sentence of 21 years for murdering 77 people in Norway will be just thrilled to hear the latest development about him: The unrepentant anti-Islamic extremist has applied to Oslo University, and the school is considering, reports the Local . Breivik’s prison… …read more
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A Norwegian neo-Nazi black metal rocker was arrested in France on Tuesday over fears he may have been preparing a “major terrorist act”, the interior ministry said.
Kristian Vikernes, who goes by the stage name of “Varg” and is reportedly linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, was arrested at dawn at his home in the central city of Salon-la-Tour.
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French police have arrested a Norwegian sympathizer of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik on suspicion of planning “a large terrorist act.”
The Paris prosecutor’s office identified the suspect as Varg Vikernes. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said the suspect was arrested at his house in rural central France on Tuesday.
Vikernes’ French wife, Marie Cachet, was also arrested, the prosecutor’s office said.
Vikernes was previously convicted of murder in Norway and is close to the neo-Nazi movement, the interior ministry said.
His wife had recently acquired four rifles, the interior ministry said. Investigators are looking into how the firearms were acquired and what they were for, it added.
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Norway‘s governing Labor Party has tightened security at its first convention since a far-right extremist who railed against the party’s immigration policies killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre.
Labor officials cited an “overall assessment” of the situation in Norway, but wouldn’t say whether the raised security level was linked to Anders Behring Breivik‘s attacks on July 22, 2011, or the explosions at the Boston Marathon this week.
The four-day convention starts Thursday with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg leading a memorial service for the victims of Breivik’s violence.
The anti-Muslim fanatic detonated a bomb that killed eight in Oslo before killing 69 people, mostly teenagers, at the Labor Party‘s youth summer camp. He’s serving a 21-year sentence that can be extended for as long as he’s considered dangerous.
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Norwegian media say prison authorities have rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik‘s request for a furlough to attend his mother’s funeral.
The 34-year-old, far-right fanatic, whose mother died Friday, was convicted of terrorism and premeditated murder in 2012 for killing 77 people and wounding hundreds in a bomb-and-gun rampage that stunned peaceful Norway a year earlier.
His laywer, Tord Jordet, told Norwegian news agency NTB that prison authorities on Tuesday decided to extend Breivik’s confinement in the maximum-security wing of Oslo’s Ila Prison, and rejected his request to attend the funeral.
Breivik would appeal the ruling, Jordet said.
Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence that can be extended for as long as he’s considered a menace to society.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has said he would like to attend the funeral of his mother, his lawyer said Saturday.
Breivik and his mother Wenche Behring Breivik met earlier this month at Ila Prison where Breivik is being held, Tord Jordet said. She died Friday after a long illness, according to her lawyer Ragnhild Torgersen. She was 66.
“He was allowed to say goodbye. They both knew it would be the final meeting,” Jordet told The Associated Press. “I spoke to him this morning. He was grieving. It was very sad news to him. “
Breivik and Jordet also discussed whether the confessed mass murder would like to attend her funeral. “He would like to do so but it is up to the prison (board) to decide,” Jordet said.
The 34-year-old right-wing fanatic killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011, in Norway‘s worst peacetime massacre. He detonated a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo killing eight people and then drove to the island of Utoya where he massacred 69 in a shooting spree at the summer camp of the governing Labor Party‘s youth wing.
Five years before the massacre, Breivik had moved back to live with his mother and ended all social contacts. His mother never attended Breivik’s 10-week trial for health reasons, but in a statement read in court she said Breivik had fabricated information.
Breivik and his mother had telephone contacts in recent months because she was not able to visit him in prison for health reasons, Jordet said.
“He told me they had completely opposite ideological views but they had a good mother and son relationship,” the lawyer said. “He regarded her as a good mother.”
Last year, the Oslo District Court found Breivik guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder for the attacks. He was given a 21-year prison sentence that can be extended if he’s considered a threat.
The self-styled anti-Muslim militant denied criminal guilt, saying he’s a commander of a resistance movement aiming to overthrow European governments and replace them with “patriotic” regimes that will deport Muslim immigrants. Police said they found no evidence of Breivik belonging to any such group.
The Norwegian government has pledged an extra 109 million kroner ($18.7 million) this year to improve terror preparedness following the July 22, 2011, massacre when a rightwing extremist killed 77 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage.
Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg says the funds are in addition to 1.5 billion kroner ($260 million) pledged to the Justice and Emergency Department for new equipment, training of personnel and pre-emptive terror measures.
Stoltenberg told reporters Wednesday that the government would do “everything it can to ensure that Norway remains a safe country.”
Last year, a comprehensive report exposed shortcomings in Norway‘s crisis preparedness and highlighted police blunders during the attacks when Anders Behring Breivik gunned down 69 people on Utoya island after exploding a bomb in central Oslo, killing eight.
A senior German judge has rejected calls to give the public greater access at the trial of a woman suspected of involvement in a far-right murder spree that has shaken the country’s security establishment since coming to light over a year ago.
The trial of Beate Zschaepe — the sole surviving member of a neo-Nazi trio that allegedly killed nine businessmen and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007 — is expected to generate intense media interest in Germany and Turkey, where at least four of the victims were born.
Part of the case will center on how Germany‘s well-funded police and intelligence services failed to link the killings of nine men with ethnic minority backgrounds to far-right fugitives for more than a decade. Several senior security officials have resigned following revelations that authorities for years believed the murders to be the work of immigrant gangs, had informers close to the suspects and destroyed evidence linked to the case.
Karl Huber, the president of the Munich regional court where the case will be heard starting April 17, said in an interview published Saturday that reporters and members of the public will share just 100 seats during what is expected to be a yearlong trial.
“We are going to conduct proceedings in accordance with the rule of law, and not a show trial for the public,” he was quoted as saying by Munich’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung. “We won’t do this in a football stadium the way totalitarian states do.”
Huber said the court considered screening the proceedings in overflow rooms used in trials such as that of Anders Behring Breivik, who was sentenced to a 21-year prison term by a court in Norway last year for killing 77 people and wounding 200 others in 2011. Norwegian authorities even broadcast the trial to courthouses across the country, so the victims’ relatives could watch.
But German court rules prohibit such arrangements and so access will be strictly limited to avoid a mistrial being declared, Huber told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Zschaepe, 38, faces a possible life sentence if convicted of involvement in the murders. She is also charged with helping found the group that called itself National Socialist Underground and with many other crimes.
The other two core members of the group, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boenhardt, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide after a bungled bank robbery on Nov. 4, 2011.
Four other men are also charged with various crimes for allegedly helping the NSU, including providing the murder weapon. The prosecution case against the men has been complicated by the fact that some may have been informers for Germany‘s security services at the time of their alleged crimes.
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