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Norway mass killer deemed sane by psychiatric team

The killer, Breivik himself has insisted that he is mentally stable and demanded that the attacks - the most violent in Norway since World War Two - be judged as a political act.

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FP Archives|Apr 10, 2012, 17:31:44 IST

Oslo: Norwegian militant Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing "traitors" who favoured immigration, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday, in a report contradicting an earlier one that found him psychotic.[caption id="attachment_271432" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="A report had initially claimed that Breivik was not sane when he  killed 77 people in Norway. AP"][/caption]Breivik himself has insisted that he is mentally stable and demanded that the attacks - the most violent in Norway since World War Two - be judged as a political act rather than the work of a deranged mind."The mental health experts' main conclusion is that defendant Anders Behring Breivik is considered not to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on 22nd July, 2011," Oslo District Court said in a statement on Tuesday.Reuters

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First Published:Apr 10, 2012, 16:35:53 IST
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