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Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, on suspicion of white supremacy, was charged with murder on Saturday after killing 49 people and causing dozens of injuries during a large-scale shootings in two mosques in New England. Zealand.
Tarrant, handcuffed and dressed in a white suit, silently appeared in front of the Christchurch District Court, where he was remanded in custody. He is scheduled to appear in court on April 5 and the police have announced that he faces new charges.
Friday's attack, described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a terrorist, was the worst mbad casualty ever in peacetime in New Zealand and the country has raised its level of security threat to the highest level.
Tarrant has been described as an alleged white supremacist, because of his activity in social media.
Images of the attack against one of the mosques were broadcast live on Facebook and a "manifesto" denouncing immigrants as "invaders" was also posted via links to media accounts related social issues.
The video showed a man on his way to Al Noor Mosque by car, entering and firing randomly at people with a semi-automatic rifle with large magazines. The video showed worshipers, possibly dead or wounded.
At one point, the shooter returns to his car, changes weapons, enters the mosque again and starts firing again. The camera attached to his head recording the mbadacre follows the barrel of his weapon, like a macabre video game.
Forty-one people were killed at Al Noor Mosque.
Banditist Brenton Harrison Tarrant (pictured) of the Christchurch Mbadacre made a forceful gesture behind a pane of glbad during a brief court appearance
Police said the alleged gunman took seven minutes to go to the second mosque in the suburb of Linwood, where seven people were killed. No image has emerged from the second mosque.
Tarrant was arrested in a car, which police said he was carrying improvised explosive devices, 36 minutes after the first call.
"The offender was mobile, there were two other firearms in the vehicle he was in, and he absolutely intended to continue his attack," Ardern told reporters in Christchurch on Saturday.
The Ardern office said the suspect had sent the "manifesto" in an e-mail containing a generic address for the prime minister, the opposition leader, the speaker of Parliament and about 70 news organizations a few minutes before the attack.
A spokesman said that the email did not describe the incident in question and that "nothing in the content or in time could have prevented the attack."
The account supervisor sent him to the parliamentary services as soon as he saw it and sent it to the police, the spokesman said.
The visiting Bangladesh cricket team was arriving for prayer in one of the mosques when the shooting started, but all members were safe, a Reuters trainer said .
Two other people were in police custody and the police stated that they were trying to understand if they were involved in any way whatsoever.
None of the arrested persons had a criminal history or appeared on watch lists in New Zealand or Australia.
BEHIND, SYMPATHY
Twelve operating rooms worked all night on more than 40 wounded people, hospital authorities said. Thirty-six people were still on treatment Saturday and 11 of them were still in intensive care. A victim died at the hospital.
"Many people need multiple trips to the theater to treat their complex series of injuries," said Greg Robertson, chief of surgery at Christchurch Hospital.
A victim posted a Facebook video of his hospital bed, asking for prayers for himself, his son and daughter.
"Hi guys how are you .. I'm really sorry to miss your calls and SMS … I'm really tired … please, pray for my son, me and my daughter … I'm coming post this video to show you that I'm fine, "said Wbadeim Alsati, who would have been hit three times.
Dozens of people have laid flowers on cords near the two mosques in Christchurch, which is still rebuilding itself after the devastating 2011 earthquake that killed nearly 200 people.
Ardern wore a black scarf over her head and hugged members of the Muslim community in a refugee center in Christchurch, claiming that she would guarantee freedom of religion in New Zealand.
"I convey to you all the message of love and support from New Zealand," she said.
The majority of the victims were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Muslims make up just over 1% of the New Zealand population.
"I'm not sure how to handle that. Forgiving will take time, "Omar Nabi, whose father, Haji Daoud Nabi, was shot dead in front of the Christchurch court told reporters. Nabi's family moved from Kabul, Afghanistan to New Zealand in the 1970s.
Abdikina Ali-Hbadarn and her family left Somalia to settle in New Zealand four years ago. They were loyal to the Linwood Mosque.
"I can not even go to the mosque now because I'm afraid it will happen again," said the 16-year-old on New Zealand television. He added that his mother, who was at Linwood Mosque with his father and brother, saw two people shot dead.
"She came here for peace … now she's in shock," he said, adding that his mother was too scared to leave home.
Men and women of the New Zealand Muslim Association in Auckland traveled to Christchurch to attend the funeral ceremonies, wash the bodies, wrap them in a white sheet and take them to the cemetery.
The investigation has not yet released the bodies, which prevented families from burying their dead in the usual 24 hours in Islam.
REFORM OF FIREARMS LAW
Ardern said Tarrant was a licensed firearms licensee who allegedly used five weapons, including two semi-automatic and two shotguns, that had been modified.
"I can tell you one thing now, our gun laws will change," Ardern told reporters, saying a ban on semi-automatic weapons would be considered.
New Zealand has already attempted to strengthen gun laws, but a strong gun lobby and hunting culture have hampered such efforts. There are an estimated 1.5 million firearms in New Zealand, which has only five million residents, but the country knows little gun violence.
Tarrant was living in Dunedin, South Island of New Zealand, and was part of the Bruce Rifle Club, according to media reports, citing club members saying he had often trained to shoot with a light semi-automatic rifle.
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic version of the US M16 military rifle. In New Zealand, the minimum legal age for owning a firearm is 16 years, or 18 years for semi-automatic military style weapons.
The president of the Police Association, Chris Cahill, has argued for stricter firearms laws, claiming that the weapons used during the shooting in the mosque were banned in Australia after the Port Arthur mbadacre. 1996, during which 35 people were shot.
The AR-15 was used in Port Arthur, as well as several high-profile mbad shootings in the United States.
WORLD CONDEMNATION
World leaders have expressed sadness and disgust at the attacks, some deploring the demonization of Muslims.
US President Donald Trump, who condemned the attack as a "horrible mbadacre," was commended by the accused shooter in a manifesto posted online as "a renewed white identity symbol and". common objective".
Ardern said that she had spoken to Trump, who had asked him how he could help. "My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities," she said.
Political and Islamic leaders in Asia and the Middle East have expressed concern over the targeting of Muslims.
"I blame these growing terrorist attacks on current Islamophobia after September 11," Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on social media. "1.3 billion Muslims have been collectively accused of any act of terror."
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