A day after the man who killed 77 people in July was declared insane, Norwegians were split on Wednesday on whether his likely sentence of psychiatric care was too easy or if it might be enough to quash his ideology. Two psychiatrists tasked with examining the perpetrator of the worst attacks carried out in Norway since World War II handed over their findings Tuesday: the 32-year-old rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik suffers from “paranoid schizophrenia”. Their diagnosis, which signifies that he most likely will be sentenced to receive psychiatric care in a closed institution – possibly for the rest of his life – instead of prison, has sparked vivid debate in Norway and has especially set Internet message boards ablaze.
