A Norwegian court on Thursday found a man indicted of murdering his stepsister and assaulting a mosque in Oslo. The sentence of 21 years preventive detention is the longest allowed jail term under Norwegian law, DW reported.
Prosecutor Johan Oeverberg announced the 22-year-old prisoner had “proven to be a notably dangerous person.”
Philip Manshaus was charged with terrorism for initiating fire at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre on August 10.
He was also charged with shooting dead his 17-year-old stepsister Johanne Ihle-Hansen in the family home shortly before the mosque attack. Police said there was a racist motive to the murder. Ihle-Hansen was adopted from China when she was two years old. Her adoptive mother later married Manshaus’s father.
Manshaus pleaded not guilty to the terror and murder charges against him, but admitted the facts of the case are true.
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