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Norway: Mosque attacker sentenced to 21 years

Flowers and police cordon are pictured in front of the Al-Noor Islamic Centre Mosque in Baerum near Oslo, Norway on August 12, 2019. - A Norwegian suspected of killing his stepsister and opening fire at a mosque near Oslo is suspected of a terrorist act and murder, police said on August 12, 2019, allegations he rejects. The man, identified by media as 21-year old Philip Manshaus, is formally suspected of murder in the death of his 17-year-old stepsister, and of a "terrorist act" at the Al-Noor mosque on August 10, 2019, police said in a statement. (Photo by Orn E. BORGEN / NTB Scanpix / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo credit should read ORN E. BORGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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.