Psychiatrists appointed by a court in Norway have concluded that the man who killed 77 people in July was insane when he committed the crime. They found Anders Behring Breivik was a
paranoid
schizophrenic who believed that he had been chosen to save the Norwegian people. Emily Buchanan reports.
Two psychiatrists spent a total of 36 hours talking to Anders Breivik as well as
poring over
his diaries and police interviews. They concluded that Norway's mass killer was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and so was not criminally responsible for his actions. Some psychologists have expressed surprise at this diagnosis, given his
meticulous
well-planned crime, but the psychiatrists justified their diagnosis by saying Breivik has so-called "grandiose delusions", believing himself to be the leader of a movement that will rescue Norway from multiculturalism.
Four of 11 candidates standing in Monday's presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called for the poll to be annulled. The four - Kengo wa Dondo, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, Adam and Vital Kamerhe - accused the authorities of systematic fraud, which meant that the poll would not be credible. The electoral commission called the move an act of desperation. There were reports of ballot-rigging and also violence during voting, but the commission has described the poll as satisfactory. International monitors have yet to give their formal assessment.