Norway massacre: Breivik declared insane
Psychiatrists assessing self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have concluded that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
They believe he was in a psychotic state during the twin attacks on 22 July that led to the deaths of 77 people and injured 151.
He was also insane during the 13 interviews the two psychiatrists held with them, a news conference heard.
Breivik admits carrying out the attacks but has pleaded not guilty to charges.
He has previously said the attacks were atrocious but “necessary”.
The two psychiatrists, in their report, concluded that he lived in his “own delusional universe where all his thoughts and acts are guided by his delusions”.
I’m very sceptical about this bollocks diagnosis. Psychotics live in their on private delusional universe and are unable to constructively pursue any complex goals in a functional way. Brevik on the other hand lived in the same delusional universe inhabited by everyone else in the “anti-jihad movement”. His behaviour just seems way too organised and focussed on his goals to be that of a person in a psychotic state.
I wonder if this isn’t a way of sweeping the real issue here - the existence of a dangerously violent “anti-jihad” contingent - under the carpet?
