“I’ve seen quite a lot of people over the years who have found cause to
commit terrorist acts, and there’s been no talk of psychosis,” Dr
Rosenqvist told the court.
Dr Rosenqvist was one of 18 psychiatrists called as witnesses in the trial to
help the court conclude on the central question of whether Breivik should be
held criminally accountable for his crimes.
Breivik admits to killing eight people with a bomb planted in the government
district in Oslo, and then killing 69 more during a gun rampage at a Labour
party youth camp on the island on Utoya. But he claims that the deaths were
necessary to alert Norway to the threat of Islamic immigration.
Dr Rosenqvist said that she had seen nothing in Breivik’s behaviour sufficient
to diagnose schizophrenia, paranoid psychosis, or Asperger’s syndrome, three
of the many competing diagnoses.
Countering the last claim, she said that Breivik had in fact shown
considerable social skills, making great efforts to win her approval.
“I speak very conservative Norwegian, and he was very keen to say we
share the same values. He said I was a conservative and he was a militant
conservative, and it was important to him that I should like him,” she
said.
The trial continues.
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