OSLO. - Prosecutors in the case of Norwegian mass killer, Anders Behring Breivik, who bombed government buildings and then shot at a number of Labor Party supporters, killing 77 and injuring 242 people in July 2011, are pleading insanity.
In the closing argument, prosecutor Svein Holden sought psychiatric care for the 33-year-old mass-murder Breivik, saying " We are not convinced or certain that Breivik is legally insane but we are in doubt...So we request that he is transferred to compulsory psychiatric care," according to BBC News.
The case has been going on for 10 weeks; the court is expected to make a verdict in July or early August. Breivik has openly admitted on various occasions to the killings, he claims that he has no regrets about what he had done.
At the beginning of the trial prosecutors showed a proclivity towards an insanity verdict by presenting evidence that Breivik was a paranoid schizophrenic. Later in the trial, however, they shifted more towards holding him accountable, implying he was in fact sane.
According BBC News analyst Lars Bevanger, "It would be unusual for the judges to go to the opposite way: to rule him sane and accountable and send him to prison."
In July 2011, Breivik bombed an Oslo government building which killed eight people. Then he went on a shooting rampage at the camp of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) of the Labor Party killing 63 people, most of whom were teenagers.
Breivik has expressed outragously right-winged populism views and has also declared his hatred of immigrants particularly muslims.
