OSLO, Norway – Norwegian media say prison authorities have rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s request for a furlough to attend his mother’s funeral.
The 34-year-old, far-right fanatic, whose mother died Friday, was convicted of terrorism and premeditated murder in 2012 for killing 77 people and wounding hundreds in a bomb-and-gun rampage that stunned peaceful Norway a year earlier.
His laywer, Tord Jordet, told Norwegian news agency NTB that prison authorities on Tuesday decided to extend Breivik’s confinement in the maximum-security wing of Oslo’s Ila Prison, and rejected his request to attend the funeral. Breivik would appeal the ruling, Jordet said.
Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence that can be extended for as long as he’s considered a menace to society.
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