Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011, is “suicidal” due to his strict prison conditions, his lawyer said as his trial against the Norwegian state opened Monday. “The main damage linked to Breivik’s isolation is that he no longer has the desire to live. You can call it a depression,“ lawyer Oystein Storrvik told the court, convened in the gymnasium of Ringerike prison for security reasons.
“At times, he is more or less suicidal,“ Storrvik added, citing an incident where Breivik -- whom Storrvik says now takes Prozac to get through his days in prison -- cried out “Kill me! Please, kill me.” Breivik, now 44, has been held apart from other inmates in high-security facilities for over 11 year
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