Breivik: I’m the victim of a racist plot

Desperate to prove he is not insane, mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed questions about his mental health were part of racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

Breivik: I’m the victim of a racist plot

Breivik, who has admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre, said no one would have asked for a psychiatric examination had he been a “bearded jihadist”.

“But because I am a militant nationalist, I am being subjected to grave racism,” he said. “They are trying to delegitimise everything I stand for.”

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