How To Put An Extremist On Trial When The World Is Watching

raised his fist in a white power salute, attacked the legitimacy of Norway’s courts and promoted the violent extremist conspiracy theories that led him to murder 77 people just months earlier, most of them teenagers at a summer camp. It was clear that he intended to use the courtroom as a stage.

New Zealand’s justice system now faces the difficult question of how to properly try Tarrant and ensure that justice is served while grappling with an unprecedented national tragedy, global media attention and a defendant who appears set on derailing the proceedings.The alleged Christchurch shooter appears at a court hearing in New Zealand.

In Norway, prosecutors spent months poring over every detail of the Breivik case. They rejected the idea that his obvious guilt should mean a speedy trial and went to great lengths to establish how each murder took place. Lead prosecutor Svein Holden reasoned that if the proceedings glossed over the deaths or didn’t challenge Breivik’s false claims, they would do a disservice to victims and could fail to debunk conspiracy theories.

, the court can appoint a standby counsel for Tarrant if he continues to insist he represent himself, according to the New Zealand Law Society. The court can also remove him from the courtroom if he becomes disruptive and prevent him from speaking to witnesses. In Breivik’s trial, the court heard days of testimony from survivors and relatives of those killed. Parents who lost their children and teenagers who saw friends murdered often sat in the same room as the man who killed their loved ones. Viljar Hannsen, who lost sight in his right eye from a bullet that was still lodged in his brain, joked that at least his lack of vision meant he couldn’t see Breivik’s side of the courtroom.

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