Norwegian mass murderer says prison isolation ‘damaged’ him
SKIEN, Norway — Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told a panel of judges Thursday that his solitary confinement in prison had deeply damaged him and made him even more radical in his neo-Nazi beliefs.
Dressed in a black suit, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a 2011 bomb attack and shooting spoke coherently and without emotion as he addressed the panel considering if his isolation is inhumane.
“I have been damaged by the isolation … (and) radicalization has been a consequence of it,” a stone-faced Breivik said. “I have not been a little hurt, I have been very damaged.”
Breivik, 37, was speaking during a hearing at the high-security prison in southern Norway where he is serving a 21-year sentence and has been in solitary confinement since 2012.