Kiwi cops visited mosque shooter before granting gun licence
Family members carrying a portrait at the funeral of Mohammed Daoud Nabi during the 12th funeral for the 50 victims of the mosque shootings at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, yesterday. – EPA pic, March 22, 2019.
NEW Zealand police said today they met with the accused Christchurch mosque shooter at his home in October 2017 before granting him the licence that let him purchase the weapons used in the rampage. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a self-avowed white supremacist, applied for the gun licence in September 2017 and a police “firearms vetting team” visited his home in the southern city of Dunedin the following month, a police spokesman said.
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