OSLO. - Friday as 33-year-old, Anders Behring Breivik, who bombed government buildings killing 77 and injuring 242 people and then shot at a number of Labor Party supporters in July 2011, took to stand to explain why he perpetrated the attacks.
Family of victims and some victims themselves who were in the court room walked out as he started to talk as a method of protesting against the mass-murder. One of the victims who walked out told BBC News "he has a right to talk- we have no duty to listen."
Breivik in a 45 minute speech explained that he was saving Norway from becoming a "multicultural hell," specifically targeting the country's Muslim diaspora. According BBC analyst Lars bevanger, Breivik talked about his hatred for non-ethnic Norwegians.
Breivik's defense lawyer argued "The mother of these actions is not violence, it is an extreme, radical, political attitude, and his actions must be perceived from the point of view of right-wing extremist culture," as reported by BBC News.
Breivik claims that he is not insane and that he should be acquitted. Prosecutors are pleading insanity.
In the closing argument yesterday, prosecutor Svein Holden sought psychiatric care for the estranged 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.
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.
