Anders Breivik's World: How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Anders Breivik's World: How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

04/24/2012

Anders Breivik's World

How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer?

By Gisela Friedrichsen

DPA

Seventy-seven people died in the attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya last July. The central question in the trial of the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, is whether or not he is criminally liable. There is much to suggest that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

Can a delusional person be punished for their crimes?