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Breivik given prison sentence, but Norway's future appears more uncertain

Later on this Friday 24th August 2012, we discovered Anders Behring Breivik, the man responsible for killing 77 people, many of which were teenagers in Norway on 22nd July 2011, has been given a maximum of 21 years in prison for his actions that shocked the nation. It has been a court case like no other. Never has the country witnessed such atrocious crime and some think that 21 years is not enough for the 33-year-old, however the Norway justice laws suggest that the maximum jail sentence is 21 years - something that has been criticised.

It has been a complicated process to giving Breivik his prison sentence. First, there was a question whether he was deemed criminally insane or criminally sane. Last autumn, there were psychiatrc reports which said that he is a sufferer of paranoia schizophrenia. This was later denied and rumours then said he had Asperger's Syndrome. Regardless, on Friday, he was announced criminally sane and therefore by law, he is sent to prison.

This prison sentence has opened up another problem - it was something Breivik wanted. He wanted to be classed as sane and he wanted all this media attention. Did the judges do the right thing and locked him up for the logical reasons or did they listen too much to Breivik? This case has been a testing one for the judiciary system in Norway and the test to the country's government, however, I am most interested in what the far-right wing fanatic will do next. Will he have friends not mentioned in his 1,500 page manifesto which are capable of doing equally as lethal attacks? Norway was the safest and happiest country in the world, now it questions its safety. The government have to think of solutions and more answers have to come from Breivik.

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