Prosecutors look for 21-year sentence for the Norway mosque attacker .
“He seems likely to be dangerous for a really while ,” prosecutor Johan Overberg, told a court outside Oslo in his closing statement.
Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday requested a 21-year sentence for a far-right Norway mosque attacker who admitted to opening fire during a mosque near Oslo after killing his step-sister.
Philip Manshaus, 22, is accused of murder and committing an act of terror.
Manshaus was arrested on August 10, 2019, after opening fire within the Al-Noor mosque within the affluent Oslo suburb of Baerum while wearing a vest and a helmet with a camera strapped thereto .
Just three worshippers were within the mosque at the time, and there have been no serious injuries as a 65-year-old man overpowered Manshaus.
Norway doesn’t have a death sentence , but the custodial sentence requested are often extended indefinitely as long because the person is taken into account a threat to society.
The body of his 17-year-old step-sister was later found in their home.
Adopted from China by his father’s girlfriend, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen was killed by four bullets, police said.
In his indictment, Overberg argued that the murder of Manshaus’s step-sister was a “planned execution” with a “racist motive”.
In the mosque, where worshippers were preparing for Eid, Manshaus “wanted to kill as many Muslims as possible,” the prosecutor added, stressing that the accused had not shown remorse.
Norway mosque attacker Manshaus has admitted to the facts of the case but pleaded acquitted , claiming his actions came out of “necessity”, namely to make sure the “survival of the White race .”
He has said he was inspired by the attacks in Christchurch in New Zealand in March 2019, when Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people in shootings at two mosques.
Tarrant, in turn, has said the Norway mosque attacker was inspired by Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who in July 2011 killed 77 people during a truck blast near government offices in Oslo and a shooting spree at a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya.