The shooter of a mosque in New Zealand reveals his motivations

The Australian who claims to be involved in shooting attacks on two mosques in New Zealand, which killed at least 49 people, posted a manifesto on Twitter. The document exposed the motivations of Brenton Tarrant, who claimed to want to attack Muslims to "create a climate of fear." Tarrant said that he had gone to France in the spring of 2017 and that in the manifesto he was describing what he saw as an "invasion" of immigrants.

The title of the 73-page document, "The Great Replacement", is identical to a conspiracy theory of French origin which says that European populations are displaced by immigrant groups with higher birth rates .

In this document, the Tarrant identifies himself as "an ordinary white man, from an ordinary family, who has decided to take a stand to secure a future for my people".

He speaks of the need to secure a future for white children but has only considered violence until the spring of 2017. He cited two incidents in his radicalization: the attack on a truck in Stockholm and the defeat of the leader of the far right French Marine Le Pen in the newspaper. presidential election.

The elections instilled "desperation" and convinced him that "a democratic solution has disappeared".

He stated that a trip to Europe, including France, in 2017 had revealed that what he had heard about "the invasion" of France by non-white immigrants was "deeply underestimated".

French answer of the far right

Sébastien Chenu, spokesman for the national Le Pen rally, strongly condemned the attacks. Interviewed on French television about the manifesto's reference to the thesis that white Europeans are being replaced by migrants, he said it was important to distinguish between the terrorist attack and the struggle of his party against immigration.

"The fact that France has been in some way overwhelmed by migration in recent years is another debate," he said. "Fortunately, we can still hold a debate on immigration without it leading the" maniacs "to take up arms to kill immigrants."

The "government policy for immigrants", he said, "puts us and places immigrants, people who come to France, in a situation of permanent conflict, economic and social difficulties".

According to the New Zealand police, three people are in detention and a man in his twenties has been charged with murder and will appear in court on Saturday. They have not confirmed that Tarrant is one of the men in detention.