Norway attacks: Breivik charged with terror attacks

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Source: BBC News

Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people and injuring 151 in Norway, has been formally charged with committing acts of terror.

Defence lawyers went to his prison near the capital, Oslo, to present their client with the charges.

Prosecutors have indicated they consider Breivik mentally ill and will seek to have him committed to psychiatric care rather than jailed.

Breivik is expected to go on trial on 16 April.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17286154

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1. You mean they are not sending him to their equivalent of Gitmo

to be tortured. Oh wait! Norway has no such facility. Are the mentally ill covered in their constitution?
Norway is such a backward country

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2. Gitmo might be an improvement ...

... over the way the U.S. treats many mentally ill persons: Prison general population, homelessness.

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4. There is no way to comprehend what motivated him

to kill 70 people and as such the subject merits no real thought.

He's an attention seeker and as such even locking him away from all others like Dumas's Man In the Iron Mask would be insufficient punishment.

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3. Mentally ill? That's a shocker. I thought he was just a really mean guy.