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A company he founded was later declared bankrupt. At the age of 20, he joined the anti-immigration/right-wing Progress Party, and chaired the local Vest Oslo branch of the party's youth organization in 2002. Īt the age of 16 he was arrested for spraying graffiti on walls he was not chosen for conscription into the Norwegian Armed Forces. Breivik announced that he did not recognize the legitimacy of the court and therefore did not accept its decision-he decided not to appeal, saying this would legitimize the authority of the Oslo District Court.

He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, in a form of preventive detention that required a minimum of 10 years incarceration and the possibility of one or more extensions for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. He was found sane and guilty of murdering 77 people. In July 2012, he was convicted of mass murder, causing a fatal explosion, and terrorism. On that day, he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb at Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then killed 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya. Norwegian Labour Party members and teenagersįjotolf Hansen (born 13 February 1979), better known by his former name Anders Behring Breivik ( Norwegian pronunciation: ( listen)) and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. Fjotolf Hansen, Andrew Berwick, Anders Behring
