The New Zealand assassin appeared in court and made a gesture of white supremacy

One of those arrested during the attack on two mosques in New Zealand, in which 49 people died, appeared in court on Saturday, the day after the mbadacre in the city of Christchurch.

The suspect, identified as Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, was charged with murder during the mbadacre, in which 48 people, including children, were also shot.

The alleged perpetrator, with the prisoner's clothes and with chains on his hands and feet, He made a gesture with the hands of the white supremacist groups accompanied by two policemen from the Christchurch District Court.

The attacks took place early in the afternoon in two mosques located in central Christchurch, the largest city in the southern island of the country, the day of Muslim prayer on Friday.

A total of 41 victims were killed in the shooting at Al Noor Mosque, seven others died in Linwood Mosque and another person was pronounced dead at the hospital.

New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern, who described yesterday's shooting as a "terrorist attack," said today that the defendant had two semi-automatic rifles and two shotguns armed with fire. from a license and that he was committed to changing the laws on the possession of weapons in the country.

"The person accused of murder did not attract the attention of the intelligence services – nor the police – on extremism," said the president, adding that she does not want to kill anyone. had no criminal record.

According to Ardern, one of the other three people arrested yesterday was released without charge and two others are currently under investigation by the police.

An attacker, in military uniform, recorded the killings in one of the mosques for 17 minutes and broadcast them live on Facebook, where he could see how he had shot at many people and changed at least two times the magazine.

The alleged perpetrator also published a manifesto on social networks with an extremist ideology and proclamations against Muslim immigrants.