Anders Behring Breivik

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Norwegian terrorist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway. On 22 July 2011, Breivik bombed the government buildings in Oslo, which resulted in eight deaths. He then carried out a mass shooting at a camp of the Workers' Youth League of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. Breivik is the son of Wenche Behring Breivik (4 November 1946 – 22 March 2013), a nurse, and Jens David Breivik (b. 9 June 1935), a civil economist, who worked as a diplomat for the Norwegian Embassy in London and later Paris. He spent the first year of his life in London until his parents divorced when he was one year old. His father, who later married a diplomat, fought for, but failed to achieve, custody. When Breivik was four, two reports were filed expressing concern about his mental health, concluding that Anders ought to be removed from parental care. On 24 August 2012, he was sentenced to the longest possibly prison term of 21 years, and he will be kept in prison beyond that time, should he continue to be a danger to society. Link to Wikipedia biography