The last I heard about Anders Behring Breivik was that he had been determined to be insane and would not be tried in a court of law, but according to this story published in an Illinois newspaper it looks like he will get his day in court after all. I’m sure the authorities were hoping that with an insanity diagnosis they could avoid the public trial—guess not.
From the Star Courier:
OSLO, Norway —
The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre that Norway has ever seen told a court Monday that he deserved a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.
Anders Behring Breivik smirked as he was led in to the Oslo district court, handcuffed and dressed in a dark suit, for his last scheduled detention hearing before the trial starts in April. He stretched out his arms in what his lawyer Geir Lippestad said was “some kind of right-wing extremist greeting.”
Reading from prepared remarks, the 32-year-old Norwegian told the court that the July 22 massacre — carried out with a bomb, a rifle and a handgun — was a strike against “traitors” he said are embracing immigration to promote “an Islamic colonization of Norway.”