A Norwegian court has condemned a shooter to 21 years in jail – with a base term of 14 years – for murdering his high school step-sister and starting to shoot at a mosque.
Philip Manshaus, 22, started shooting at the al-Noor Islamic Center in Baerum, west of the capital Oslo, last August.
A few shots were discharged in the mosque however no one was genuinely stung. Manshaus was overwhelmed before police arrived.
It was treated as a demonstration of far-right racist terror.
Police discovered proof that Manshaus was inspired by Brenton Tarrant, accused for deadly attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in March 2019. Tarrant has conceded to 51 charges of murder in New Zealand.
The 14-year least sentence for Manshaus is more than the base 10 years on account of Anders Behring Breivik, the traditional radical who executed 77 individuals in Norway in 2011. Norway expanded the base sentences for such cases in 2015.
Manshaus was intensely outfitted when he raged into the mosque last August, yet he was overwhelmed by a 65-year-old resigned Pakistani aviation based armed forces official, Mohammad Rafiq. He pinned Manshaus down and managed to disarm him.
Soon after the assault, the body of the shooter’s 17-year-old Chinese-born stepsister Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen was found at a house in Baerum.
The decision read out by judge Annika Lindstroem said Manshaus had visited neo-Nazi sites including pages requiring a “race-based” common war.
In court Manshaus was unrepentant and voiced profound respect for the Christchurch killer, who recorded and communicate the mosque shootings live.
Manshaus himself wore a head protector camera and recorded his mosque shooting, but failed to broadcast the attack online.
He had bruised eyes and wounds all over and neck when he originally showed up in court a year ago, in the wake of being overwhelmed in the mosque. Norwegian telecaster NRK says he used his father’s rifle and a shotgun in the attack.
In court Manshaus also cited to Adolf Hitler and Breivik as good examples, talked about a supposed “genocide of the European people” and considered the Holocaust a myth.
The court dismissed the barrier’s contention that Manshaus was mentally unfit to stand trial. Alongside the prison sentence, Manshaus was requested to pay remuneration to the casualties’ family members and legitimate charges of 100,000 krone (£16,800).
This story is originally posted on bbc.com
