Neo-Nazi killer Anders Behring Breivik will remain in prison because he remains dangerous

the justice of Norway rejected on Tuesday the request for the conditional release of the neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivikten years after killing 77 people in the worst massacre committed in the Nordic country.

“There is a clear risk that he will resume the behavior that led to the July 22 terrorist attacks,” stated the Telemark district court, rejecting the application for the release of Breivik.

Breivik never showed regret after committing the bloodiest crime ever to occur in Norway in times of peace, so this decision by the courts was not surprising.

On July 22, 2011, the extremist exploded a bomb near the seat of government in Oslo, killing eight, and then killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, by shooting them at a Labor Youth summer camp in the Island of Utoya.

This week, Breivik assured that he renounced violence and that he maintained his neo-Nazi ideology, but through peaceful means.

The right-wing extremist, now 42, was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prisonthe maximum penalty, which can be extended as long as he continues to be considered a threat to society.

The verdict had been accompanied by a minimum period of ten years, after which he could apply for parole.

He did so at a hearing held, for security reasons, in the gymnasium of the Skien prison (south), where he was imprisoned from January 18 to 20.

Although his request seemed doomed from the beginning, Breivik had tried to divert the procedure to spread his ideological propaganda, exploiting public and media attention.

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