Norway prosecutors ask for psychiatric care not prison for confessed killer Breivik

OSLO – Prosecutors say there are enough doubts about confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s sanity that he should be committed to compulsory psychiatric care instead of prison.

In their closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors said it could not be ruled out that the 33-year-old Norwegian was psychotic when he killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage on July 22.

Prosecutor Svein Holden said “We request that he is transferred to compulsory psychiatric care.”