Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik denied parole

The court said the neo-Nazi, who killed 77 people in the country’s worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011, must remain in prison as he is still a threat

On the first day of the parole hearing last month, Breivik made a white supremacist sign with his fingers before raising his right arm in a Nazi salute

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Convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik arrives in court on the first day of his parole hearing where he is seeking parole, in Skien, Norway in January. Photo: NTB Scanpix via AP

Published: 12:37am, 2 Feb 2022Updated: 1:42am, 2 Feb 2022

A Norwegian court has rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s parole application, it said in a ruling on Tuesday, ordering that he must stay in prison.

Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.

On the first day of the parole hearing last month, Breivik made a white supremacist sign with his fingers before raising his right arm in a Nazi salute to signal his far-right ideology as he entered the court.

“The risk of violence is real and significant and equal to what it was when (Breivik) was first sentenced,” the district court in Telemark said in a unanimous verdict.

A Norwegian flag sits among flowers and tributes laid outside the Oslo Cathedral in Oslo in July 2011, in memory of the victims of a bomb attack and shooting spree that left 77 dead. Photo: AP

Breivik, 42, is serving Norway’s maximum sentence of 21 years, which can be extended indefinitely if he is deemed a continued threat to society. He attended court dressed in a suit and with his head shaven.