It more objectively and calmly reflects the murderer's preparations, explosive shootings, arrests, and the lengthy trial process. From the beginning to the end, the perverted extremist was in control of the situation. He voluntarily surrendered, and even gave up his mental illness defense in order to express his position and views during the trial (if he did not give up, the court might not be able to let him serve his sentence, I can only let him go to therapy), and the whole process is smug, confident, and remorseless.
Why are Norwegian legal sentences so light? Seventy-seven lives, the law has nothing to do with fighting violent crimes. If the rights and interests of victims cannot be protected, then protecting the rights of as many perpetrators will put the cart before the horse.
Only the defense lawyer who was forced to take a job was punished in the end, he was constantly harassed and threatened, and his daughter was forced to transfer schools. The real murderer was protected by a high wall, and the angry people couldn't do anything about him.
The final subtitle of the film said that the murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment. In fact, in Norway, where there is neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, he was only sentenced to 21 years. After 7 years of detention, he can go out on weekends without monitoring, and after 14 years of imprisonment, he can be released on parole.
He lives in a small suite in prison, can read a newspaper, has a treadmill, can play online games, and even went to college in prison. But he went on a hunger strike to demand improvements in "abusive" prison living conditions.
It seems that there are not many ways to treat him in the Norwegian prison, and it seems that they can only be satisfied as much as possible. There is no way to punish such a devil, it is really too weak.
In August next year, when the murderer had been behind bars for seven years, when news of his weekend away appeared in the Norwegian media, the survivors who were still battling injuries did not know how painful and angry it was.
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