'Who is the man behind the mosque massacres in Christchurch? NewZealandTerroristAttack
At least 49 people were killed in an armed terrorist attack on two mosques in the town of Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 minutes apart during the Friday prayers. It was determined that Brenton Tarrant , an Australian citizen who undertook the attack, had a dozen pages of manifesto published on his social media account.
That rampage killed at least 41 people, while an attack on a second mosque in the city not long after killed several more. Police did not say whether the same person was responsible for both shootings. A woman who said she was a colleague of his when he worked as a personal trainer in the Australian city of Grafton said she was shocked by the allegations against him.
In a tweet, Owens responded by saying that if the media portrayed her as the inspiration for the attack, it had better hire lawyers.Throughout the manifesto, the theme he returns to most often is the conflict between people of European descent and Muslims, often framing it in terms of the Crusades. He said his desire for violence grew when he arrived in France, where he became enraged by the sight of immigrants in the cities and towns he visited.And so he began to plot his attack. Three months ago, he started planning to target Christchurch. He claimed not to be a direct member of any organisation or group, though he said he has donated to many nationalist groups.
And he hoped to create more conflict over gun laws in the US, thus leading to a civil war that would ultimately result in a separation of races.Though he claimed not to be a Nazi, in the video he live-streamed of the shooting the number 14 is seen on his rifle. That may be a reference to the "14 Words," a white supremacist slogan attributed in part to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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