Norway sentences Breivik to 21 years in prison

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway shooter, was today declared sane and sentenced to a minimum 21 years in isolated confinement.

The sentence was the most severe permitted under Norwegian law, but it can be extended at a later date if he is still deemed to be a danger to society.

Mr. Breivik, 33, who had insisted that he was sane when he carried out the attacks last year as part of what he called a campaign against multiculturalism in Norway, smiled when the verdict was announced. As he arrived in court on Friday, wearing a dark suit and tie, he raised his right arm in a right-wing salute, his fist clenched.

In an hourlong, rambling warning about the evils of Norwegian multiculturalism, Mr. Breivik said, “I acted in the principle of necessity for my country, so I ask to be acquitted.”

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