Court rejects Norwegian mass killer Breivik's parole application

FILE PHOTO: Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, arrives at the makeshift courtroom in Skien prison on the second day of the trial, where he is requesting release on parole, in Skien, Norway January 19, 2022. Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/via REUTERS

OSLO (Reuters) -A Norwegian court has rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's parole application, it said in a ruling on Tuesday, ordering that he must stay in prison.

Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed 77 people https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-marks-ten-years-since-breiviks-deadly-attacks-2021-07-21 in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.