The messages of the rifles of the mixer …

The semi-automatic rifles used by Brenton Tarrant, the shooter who entered a mosque in New Zealand and killed at least 50 people, wore handwritten inscriptions referring to ancient battles between Christians and Muslims and to Other attacks on migrants. The phrases appeared during the live broadcast that the attacker himself had made via Facebook Live.

"I am only a white man from a normal family who has decided to take a stand to secure the future of his people," Tarrant said on his social networks before launching the Al Noor Mosque attack, in the city of Christchurch. In this manifesto, he stated that his aim was to "directly reduce the number of immigrants on the European territories (sic) by intimidation and physical removal".

Tarrant, 28, also wrote messages about the cartridges that he used. The name Shipka Pbad, inscribed on his guns, refers to one of the last clashes between the Ottoman and Russian empires, and to that of Sebastiano Denier, commander of the Battle of Lepanto, when the Holy League of the 39, Catholic Church took it away. Turkish

The name of Luca Traini, an Italian who murdered six immigrants in the town of Mascerate, was also written.

Another of the inscriptions made by Tarrant was "Por Rotherham", a city in the United Kingdom where badual abuse has been committed for decades. He also wrote the name Novak Vujošević, from the Kuči tribe, a Christian who killed 28 enemies during the Battle of Fundina.