Anders Behring Breivik—the man who confessed to killing 77 people last year in the worst mass murder Norway has ever seen—has been found to be legally sane by court-appointed psychiatrists, according to the Associated Press.
The new finding—by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas—negates a previous assessment by other mental health professionals, which had declared Breivik a paranoid schizophrenic. Issued last November, the first report stated that Breivik was psychotic when he shot 69 people in Norway’s Utoya region and still psychotic afterwards.
https://lastchance.cc/norway-mass-killer-may-be-declared-legally-insane-5863319%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
A sprawling 1516-page manifesto written by Breivik made mention of video games as both training tool and cover story. The alleged killer wrote about using Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a training simulator for honing shooting skills and World of Warcraft to explain away for abnormal behavior.
https://lastchance.cc/oslo-terrorist-used-modern-warfare-2-as-training-simul-5824147%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Breivik’s trial starts on Monday and is scheduled to last ten weeks.
(Image courtesy of The Associated Press)
Norway killer found sane in new examination [The Associated Press]
