Norwegian authorities denied a request to register a fascist political organization issued by Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian serving a sentence for killing 77 people in twin mass killings in 2011. The application was rejected due to incorrect filing.
Breivik’s application did not pass the legal requirements for
registering an association he wanted to call “The Norwegian fascist
party and the Nordic league,” a spokeswoman for Norwegian
registration body told Aftenposten daily on Friday.
“To be an association, you need to have two people or more…
and in this case, there’s only Breivik,” Mette Siri Broenmo
said.
There were other irregularities in Breivik’s application that
barred him from founding his organization, she added.
Tord Jordet, Breivik’s lawyer, said his client intended to
re-apply.
Breivik was the perpetrator behind Norway’s worst postwar
episode of violence. In July 2011, he bombed a government building
in Oslo and then went on a shooting rampage at a gathering of young
activists who were members of the country’s ruling political
party.
The crimes, for which he received the maximum sentence of 21
years in prison, were motivated by his extremist anti-Islamic and
anti-liberal political views, which he espoused during his
trial.
This article originally appeared on : RT