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Frank Augstein/AP

Breivik gives up his inheritance - to stop Norway giving it to his victims

Anders Behring Breivik would have inherited money from his late mother, but doesn’t want it to go towards his victims.

NORWEGIAN MASS KILLER Anders Behring Breivik has renounced an inheritance from his mother to avoid it going to the state which wants to compensate his victims’ families, his lawyer said today.

“It’s surely one of the reasons behind his decision,” lawyer Tor Jordet told AFP, confirming a newspaper report about his renouncing his inheritance to avoid it falling into state coffers.

The government would have claimed the money to pay damages awarded to the families of his 77 victims by the Oslo court that sentenced Breivik to 21 years in jail in August last year.

During his trial, it emerged that Breivik, 34, had cheated to avoid paying income taxes to a state that he vehemently opposed.

Breivik’s mother died in March. The amount of the inheritance was not known, but her apartment was put up for sale today for around 3.7 million kroner (€484,000).

Jordet said the right-wing extremist had renounced his share of the inheritance before his mother’s death. It is expected to go to Breivik’s half-sister and to charity.

Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, in a gun rampage at a Labour party youth camp on July 22, 2011, after setting off a massive bomb outside the main government building in Oslo, killing eight.

He had laid out his Islamophobic and anti-multicultural ideology in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto posted online shortly before the attacks.

Breivik planned the carnage while living with his mother in the apartment in an affluent Oslo neighbourhood.

He had moved back in with his mother in 2006, at the age of 27.

He left in 2011 just a few months before the massacre, moving to a farm where he was able to obtain the fertiliser needed to build his bomb.

- © AFP, 2013

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    Mute Bernard Browne
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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:22 PM

    His half sister should give it to the victims.that would get up the twisted fu@kers nose.

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    Mute Adam Power
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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:42 PM

    I’d love if that happened.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 4:47 PM

    Something fishy about the whole storyline no way he acted alone … Obviously he is insane but who plotted and carried it out with him

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:03 PM

    Who cares?. This freak just wants to be back in the public eye. No news agencies should give him the satisfaction

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    Jun 12th 2013, 8:41 AM

    Completely agree, just by publicising him, we’re giving him what he wants, and I think, maybe I’m being a bit harsh here, he doesn’t deserve what he wants!!

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    Mute Dar Ryl
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    Jun 12th 2013, 9:12 AM

    He’s already proved he’ll stoop to anything to get attention! He should never get any again. That’s the only way to hurt him

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    Jun 11th 2013, 4:58 PM

    I thought 21 years is the maximum sentence in Norway?

    My favourite musician Varg Vikernes killed a guy,burned down 3 churches, and was found with a carboot full of dynamite. He got a 21 year sentence and he was let out after 15 years. This was in Norway also.

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    Mute Éamonn Mac Lochlainn
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:24 PM

    Not 100% sure, but I think that 21 years is the maximum sentence in Norway – but that they have the ability to extend the sentence at the end of that term (and as many times thereafter) if the prisoner is still considered a threat to society. I do remember this coming up at the trial and Norwegian commentators saying that he would pretty much not see the light of day again…

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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:51 PM

    Okay if that’s true he’ll stay in there for a good while as he did say if he was released he’d kill again.

    Varg Vikernes isn’t a threat to society. He’s actually a sound guy, I’ve chatted to him a few times and he was one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 11:53 PM

    I think he should be put on the island were he committed mass murder and allowed him to till the land for survival while slowly introducing Brown Grizzly Bears to the island for conservation purposes of course

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    Jun 12th 2013, 8:51 AM

    Anyone who burns down 3 churches has to be a sound kinda guy

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    Mute Pádraig Mac Riochaird
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    Jun 12th 2013, 11:02 AM

    The churches are a sign of oppression. The Christians destroyed the Norwegian culture and burned down their religious buildings and then they built their churches on the same sites.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 2:59 PM

    What a nasty little man he is.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:05 PM

    What a disgusting waste of life that man is!

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:21 PM

    What are they going to do in 20 years time when a 50 something year old nutcase is realeased ….

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:28 PM

    His sentence can be extended indefinitely on a review basis as he nears the end of his sentence.

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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:53 AM

    He won’t get out. He is convinced that he was right to murder all those people. He is a danger to society because he has no regrets and was sorry he did not kill more people.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 5:37 PM

    Why should the step sister have to give the victims money???? She didn’t set out to kill them she didn’t hunt those people down and shoot them???? Bad enough she is related to dirt like this but she shouldn’t pay for the crimes committed by her step brother!!

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    Jun 11th 2013, 6:03 PM

    I think the sentiment was that if she gets his share, she gives it to the victims, just to piss him off, not that she sacrifices any of her share. If that bastard was my brother it is what I’d do to his half. I wouldn’t want anything that was supposed to be his. He is evil.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:10 PM

    Fu%#er

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:57 PM

    Although it is likely the reason behind his actions apart from speculation by a lawyer no where in the article does he admit to it being the reason for forfeiting his inheritance………

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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:57 AM

    He may have told the lawyer or the lawyer knows how breivik would react. He has had to deal with him and listen to him.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 3:14 PM

    I wouldn’t want his money if it was me, I rather burn it ….

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    Jun 11th 2013, 4:45 PM

    Now there’s an EDL poster boy if ever there was one……il bet “Help for Disposable Heroes” wouldn’t accept a donation from him either!

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    Jun 11th 2013, 5:12 PM

    this fella should be shot up, cut up and then incinerated and his ashes flushed down the toilet

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    Jun 11th 2013, 6:24 PM

    Life in prison is a much better punishment. Death would only be a release for him.

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    Jun 12th 2013, 2:20 AM

    The money should be given to some Islamic charities in his name, would live to see his face after being told that

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    Jun 11th 2013, 5:16 PM

    vincent … there is no women allowed in that prison ..you need to grow a set first dude

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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:35 AM

    In Breivik’s case it is called preventative detention. Twenty one years is the maximum prison term. The verdict of his trial meant that he will be inside for at least ten years. The sentence will be imposed on him for as long as he considered a danger to society. I believe Norway has recently tried to extend the twenty one year term to thirty years.

    I doubt this guy will ever be released. He has no remorse and would be very happy to repeat his horrendous murdering spree and stated he regrets not killing more people. Refusing the inheritance because it would be awarded to those whose lives he destroyed shows he is as heartless as he was in 2011 and in his trial. He is still as heartless as ever.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 10:15 PM

    The guys a monster

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    Jun 12th 2013, 8:54 AM

    Didn’t the Bishops of Ireland not release a statement saying how precious all life is ?

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