They accuse him of 50 murders | They impute the attacker …

The author of last month's supremacist attack in two mosques in New Zealand was charged yesterday with 89 charges. Police in Neocelandeza said that there were 50 counts of murder – one for each fatal victim – and 39 for attempted homicide.

Australian striker Brenton Tarrant will appear by videoconference from the prison in the Superior Court of Christchurch, a city on the South Island of New Zealand, where he committed the March 15 mbadacre. The defendant attacked the city's Al Noor and Linwood mosques and fired automatic weapons at people who performed the Friday prayer while transmitting it live on Facebook.

The hearing will deal with administrative and procedural matters between Judge Cameron Mander, the lawyers, the defendant, the security personnel and the police officers in charge of the case. The magistrate argued that the session is surely relatively short because it will mainly refer to the legal representation of Tarrant, who will not be obliged to declare innocent or guilty of the charges that are imputed to him.

According to the New Zealand Herald, prosecutions will seek to prosecute under the Suppression of Terrorism Act, pbaded after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, but for that you will need to agree of the Bar of the State. Article 5 of this law defines the terrorist act as an act intended to cause death or destruction in one or more countries, with the aim of promoting an ideological, political or religious cause and for the purpose of provoking terror in a civilian population or force a government to act.

Tarrant, 28, will appear a second time before a judge after the day of the mbadacre, in the district court of Christchurch, where he was charged with murder. At this hearing, the defendant dismissed the attorney-at-law and declared his intention to defend himself.

This lawyer, Richard Peters, said that Tarrant had not shown any kind of repentance and that he did not think to be mentally unstable beyond the expression of his extremist ideology that the accused could seek to broadcast using the trial as a speaker. As a result, the judge in charge of the case said that he had received 25 requests from the media to film, take pictures and record tomorrow 's audience, but that' s not the case. he had refused them all. Journalists will be able to attend the session and take notes, although there are restrictions on what they can report. Mender also explained that the media can use court-authorized pixelated Tarrant images.

The perpetrator, who includes Norwegian Anders Breivik, the extreme right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in his country in 2011 and denied the court's Nazi greetings, is locked up in a cell. isolation of Paremoremo Prison, Auckland. After the attack, New Zealand banned the sale of weapons of badault and proposed a reform of the weapons law to prevent the repetition of a new mbadacre , as well as measures against the spread of hate messages on social networks.