The author of the New Zealand massacre has dismissed his lawyer and will defend himself | Chronic

L & # 39; Australian Brenton Tarrant, author of the mbadacre of two mosques in New Zealand, rejected his lawyer and intends to defend himself only the murder of at least 50 people.

Richard Peters He told the New Zeland Herald newspaper that on Saturday he had stopped representing Tarrant at the request of the accused, after accompanying him to appear before the judge, who had accused him of murder .

Peters said the aggressor, 28, was lucid, showed no regret and did not think he was mentally unstable beyond the expression of his extremist ideology.

Tarrant will remain in detention until April 5, when he is scheduled to appear in New Zealand's High Court. According to the lawyer, he would seek to use the process as a sounding board for his supremacist ideology, the agencies EFE, ANSA and Europa Press.

"I think that he will not avoid publicity and that it will be the way he will face the lawsuit." The judge's job will be to settle that.Pointed out Peters.

In addition to the 50 dead, 50 others were injured in the armed badault on the two mosques of Christchurch, Of which 34 remain hospitalized, 12 of them in critical condition.