The death toll in the mosque massacres in New Zealand has risen to 50: the New Zealand police chief Mike Bush said, stating that one of the injured is dead.
36 people remain in the hospital, two of them in critical condition, he specified. Bush, who gave a press conference, said two people arrested around the time Brenton Tarrant, the supremacist killer, were released because they were unrelated to the attack.
Meanwhile, the perpetrator of the massacre shot live on Facebook, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, was remanded in custody on April 5. The man filmed the massacre in a live Facebook.
Tarrant, whose address was traced to Andersons Bay in Dunedin, made an appearance in custody at the Christchurch District Court. In white prison clothes, handcuffed hands and bare feet, he grinned when reporters photographed him in the courtroom, flanked by two police officers. The New Zealand Herald writes it. Tarrant was remanded in custody, without recourse to the Christchurch High Court.
After entering court, the man waved ‘ok’, a gesture used by white supremacists and racist trolls on the internet. This was revealed by the New Zealand Herald by publishing a photo. Meanwhile, after the statements by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on the intention to review the legislation on weapons, Attorney General David Parker clarified that “no decision has yet been taken regarding the ban on semi-automatic weapons”.
Tarrant, had announced his gesture on an online forum and had been planning the attacks for two years: and what emerges from the 74-page anti-migrant manifesto by Tarrant himself published on the Internet. The terrorist, reports the Australian website News.com.au, had announced the massacre on the ‘8chan’ forum and chose to hit New Zealand – which was not his original target – only three months ago.In the anti-immigrant manifesto Tarrant explained who and why his actions, defined as a terrorist attack. He said he was not a member of any organization, but that he made donations and interacted with many nationalist groups, although he acted alone and no group ordered the attack. He added that he chose New Zealand because of his position, to show that even the most remote parts of the world are not exempt from “mass immigration”. Mosques massacre, the story of the survivors
The New Zealand police announce that they have defused a number of IEDs found inside vehicles after the shootings in mosques.
The premier, who spoke of an “unprecedented” situation, said at least 10 people were killed in the Linwood mosque and the others in the mosque on Deans Avenue near Hagley Park. The players in the Bangladesh national cricket team
would have narrowly escaped one of the two shootouts . According to what some of them wrote on social media, athletes and team staff members were approaching on their bus the Masjid Al Noor mosque when the shooting broke out. The test match scheduled for tomorrow against New Zealand has been canceled. Shooting in two mosques in New Zealand
