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Norwegian Mass Killer Renounces Inheritance

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Anders Behring Breivik hasrenounced his share of inheritance from his mother’s estate to prevent thestate from compensating his victims’ families.

In 2011, Breivik killedeight people after setting off a massive bomb outside Oslo’s main governmentbuilding.  Immediately afterwards,Breivik killed 69 more people at a Labour party youth camp in a gun rampage.

Breivik’s mother died inMarch and the value of her estate is unknown. Brevik’s inheritance is expected to go to his half-sister.

See Breivik Renounces Inheritance So It Won’t Go toState, Yahoo! News, June 12, 2013.

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