Geir LippestadGeir LippestadAlma materUniversity of OsloOccupationLawyerKnown forAttorney for Anders Behring BreivikWebsiteCorporate Website14 more rows
Viljar Hanssen, 27, was a high school student in Longyearbyen when he became one of the most recognizable survivors of the July 22, 2011, massacre at Utøya. He suffered near-fatal injuries after being shot five times, ultimately losing an eye and suffering severe impairment of his motor functions.
He did it, as he told police, to “protect” the Nordic nation from multiculturalism. After his capture by police, he asked for Lippestad to defend him as once he had defended a neo-Nazi accused of murder. Ole Nicolai Kvisler received 15 years in jail in 2002 for killing Norwegian-Ghanaian teenager Benjamin Hermansen.
paranoid schizophreniaAnders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway in July 2011. In his first psychiatric evaluation, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and his most implausible beliefs were regarded as bizarre delusions.
Asne Seierstad, in her book One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, recounts the emotionally powerful testimony of 18-year-old Viljar Hanssen. Hanssen was shot by Breivik. He lay in a coma for six days in an Oslo hospital.
The director's new film, "22 July," is a true story about a terrorist attack in Norway that left 77 people dead. Critic Bob Mondello says the attack itself turns out to be just the beginning.
After his capture by police, he asked for Lippestad to defend him as once he had defended a neo-Nazi accused of murder.
Utøya is encompassed by the Norwegian "all man's right". This means that everybody can normally visit the island. The island was closed by the police for several months after the massacre, but was made accessible to the public again after April 1st this year.
The capital punishment was fully abolished in Norway in 1979 and its abolitionist status was enshrined in the Constitution in 2014.
SkienThe right-wing extremist was sentenced to a maximum of 21 years in prison — the longest prison sentence possible in Norway — and has since been held in near-isolation in a prison in the city of Skien. Breivik claimed that such conditions are a violation of his human rights.