The Norwegian court rejected the conditional release of the extremist Breivik

Breivik’s lawyer did not immediately comment on the court’s decision.

The perpetrator of the worst terrorist act in Norwegian history has been behind bars for 13 years. He initially applied for early release in 2022, when the judge ruled against him, noting that he showed no signs of improvement.

This opinion is shared by prosecutor Hulda Olsen Karlsdottirová, who spoke in mid-November right at the beginning of the current judicial review.

“It poses the same threat as before and during the terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011,” she said. The management of the Ringerike prison, where Breivik was transferred in 2022, holds the same opinion.

When Breivik entered the gym converted into a makeshift meeting room in the high-security Ringerike prison in November, he raised his right hand in the Hitler salute Sieg Heil. Above the right ear on his otherwise bald head, a Z symbol cut from his hair could be seen, indicating his support for Russia and President Vladimir Putin.

On July 22, 2011, neo-Nazi Breivik first detonated a car bomb containing 950 kg of explosives in the government district of Oslo. The explosions killed eight people and destroyed 80,000 square meters of land. There could have been many more victims, but the truck with the bomb fell into the garage during the explosion, which mitigated the consequences.

Then – in a police uniform and armed to the teeth – he went to the island of Utøya, where a holiday camp of a social democratic youth organization was held.

He shot 67 people aged 14 to 51 in cold blood. Another person drowned while fleeing from the murderer, another was fatally injured by falling from the cliff. Among the victims were 32 minors. The survivors testified that he acted like he was at a shooting range. The police detained him only after 75 minutes.

In 2012, the district court in Oslo gave him the highest possible sentence: 21 years in prison followed by preventive detention, which can be extended as long as he is considered a threat to society.