Ten months after Attack on a mosque in Norway the perpetrator was sentenced to 21 years in prison. The competent district court in Sandvika near Oslo in Norway found the 22-year-old defendant guilty of terrorism and murder. So it followed the request of the public prosecutor. The young man’s defense lawyer, on the other hand, pleaded for acquittal because, in her view, there were doubts about her client’s accountability.
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On August 10, 2019, on the eve of the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, the Norwegian attacked a mosque in Bærum around 20 kilometers west of Oslo. He was armed with several firearms, but could be overpowered and arrested by believers. None of the believers were seriously injured in the attack.
The police later found the body of his 17-year-old stepsister in his apartment, which the man had killed with four shots from a hunting rifle. The accused has conceded the deeds, but rejected a debt in the criminal sense. In court he repeatedly expressed radical right and anti-Islam views. At a court hearing last September he also showed the Hitler salute.
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According to Norwegian media reports shortly before the attack, the perpetrator praised online about the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which a right-wing extremist shot 51 people in March and injured another 50. He is also said to have expressed his support for the shots in El Paso, Texas, with 22 deaths in August 2019.
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