OSLO — When Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial next week, both the prosecution and the defense will say he killed 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre.
The only question is whether he was sane when he did it — and after a new psychiatric assessment Tuesday, even that may no longer be in dispute.
“Our conclusion is that he (was) not psychotic at the time of the actions of terrorism and he is not psychotic now,” said Terje Toerrissen, one of the psychiatrists who examined Breivik in prison.
The blond, blue-eyed gunman confessed to the July 22 attacks — a bomb in Oslo’s government district followed by a shooting spree at the governing Labor Party’s youth camp outside the capital. But he rejected criminal guilt, saying he had acted to protect Norway from being overrun by Muslims by targeting the left-leaning political establishment he claimed had betrayed the country with liberal immigration policies.
The psychiatric report was presented to the Oslo district court Tuesday.
His trial starts Monday.
