The author of the New Zealand massacre will defend himself

After killing at least 50 people during a terrorist attack aired on Facebook, the Australian Brenton Tarrant has rejected the official lawyer and will exercise his own defense.

L & # 39; lawyer Richard Peters he told the newspaper New Zeland Herald who stopped representing Tarrant at the request of the accused last Saturday after accompanying him in his appearance before the judge, who accused him of murder.

The lawyer explained that the accused, aged 28, was lucid, showed no type of repentance and did not think that he was mentally unstable beyond the expression of its extremist ideology.

Tarrant will remain in detention until April 5, when he is expected to testify in the High Court of New Zealand where, according to the lawyer, he would seek to use the process as a sounding board for his ideology. supremacist.

"I think that he will not avoid publicity and that he will find himself facing this lawsuit." The judge's job will be to settle that, "said Peters.

Tarrant killed 50 people and wounded 50 others during an armed attack on two mosques in Christchurch. Another 34 wounded remain in the hospital, 12 of them in critical condition.

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