3.15 New Zealand terrorist attacks
Death: 49
Injured: 48
Arrest: 4 (3 Australian)
Gunman will appear on Saturday.
"New Zealand cannot tolerate them,
"the world cannot tolerate it."
-New Zealand Prime Minister Jainda Ardern
The events began between April and May 2017. Before that, Brenton Tarrant was an ordinary young man, Grafton. from New South Wales, Australia. He was born into a low-and middle-income working family, and his ancestors were Scottish, Irish and English, which he particularly valued. He went through an ordinary childhood, at school, he had little interest in school, and sometimes he couldn`t even pass the exam.
ABC News, Australia, when I was a kid.
He wasn`t interested in college either. After seven years as a fitness coach in Grafton, Australia, after working for a while and saving some money, he invested in bitcoin to earn a little money, and then, like many young people, used the money he earned to travel abroad.
The period from early April 2017 to the end of May 2017 was a brief period of radical change in his outlook on life, just two years before he launched a massive terror massacre in New Zealand.
At that time, his footprints as a young tourist from the Southern Hemisphere were set on the land of Western Europe. France, Spain, Portugal and other countries. The first incident to trigger a change of heart was the Stockholm terrorist attack, which killed five people and injured many others on April 7, 2017. Although as an adult, terrorist attacks have been heard from time to time, but somehow the Stockholm terrorist attacks gave him an idea that he had never had before, and the idea began to hang on.
Stockholm attacks in 2017, pictures from Aftonbladet, Sweden
In particular, photo, an 11-year-old girl in Stockholm after the attack on Ebba Akerlund, accelerated his transformation. Ebba Akerlund was crushed to death by a truck driven by terrorist in the Islam terrorist attack in Stockholm. The 11-year-old, a deaf-mute child, couldn`t hear her voice when the truck crashed into the mall, so she didn`t evade it. It was almost then that he moved from a common pursuit of Western democracy, political solutions, to radical, extreme solutions, hatred instead of apathy, to a particular ethnic group, to a particular religion, He began to have a self-justifiable set of ideas.
His final turn was in France, where the 2017 election and the news of his French town hastened the final transmutation. Before he went to France, he had heard about refugee problems, the declining status of whites and stories of "invasion" by foreigners. After his trip to France, he thought the stories he had heard in the past were not only true, but also deepened his hatred. Once he traveled to a small town in eastern France, between 1.5 and 25,000 people, parked in a rented car at the gate of the mall, passing a string of what he saw as "intruders" entering the mall. The scene began to anger him: in his view, Europe`s future should be European, that is, European white.
He drove angrily in leave to the next town, but found that no town could avoid what he called "intruders." So he began to think that political solutions would not solve Europe`s problems, and that the extreme would be to physically erase them.
Friday afternoon, when gunman was arrested, source network.
Why choose the most innocent New Zealand?
Before embarking on his plan, he looked at fertility rates, and he learned that Western societies would have to maintain an average fertility rate of 2.06 per woman in order to achieve positive population growth. In the West today, "neither the United States, Australia, nor New Zealand can reach it", so "it is filled with large numbers of immigrants." He toured the war graves of Europe and believed that those who had tried to protect European culture and territory would not be satisfied with a country now made up of large numbers of "invading" migrants. This is the extinction of whites-a typical white supremacist at this time, full of wings.
A picture of the mosque periphery Stuff after Friday`s incident.
When planning the massacre, New Zealand was not the first to enter gunman`s head. As an Australian, he was able to get in and out of New Zealand easily. Originally, he planned to come to New Zealand for guns training and plan to launch an attack on Muslim immigrants in one country.
Gunman used to travel to North Korea, ABC News pictures.
Gunman Brenton Tarrant 2018 pictures in ABC News, Pakistan
However, after he came to New Zealand for a temporary residence, he found that New Zealand was "in the same situation as other Western countries" and believed that an attack in New Zealand would draw the world`s attention, Let people know that "no place in the world is safe, intruders come to our land, even in the most remote parts of the world," and "no place is safe without large-scale migration."
He began a months-long survey of New Zealand`s mosque.
Two mosque SBS News pictures from the attack
At first, he targeted mosque in Danidin, South Island, where he thought the Muslim was the most active in sharing content. He watched their videos and targeted them there.
But when he surveyed mosque in Christchurch, including mosque in Linwood and a converted mosque from church in Ashburton, his idea took place in change. He felt that the conditions of Christchurch were the most appropriate and could have the greatest impact. He plans to attack mosque in Christ`s city before heading for mosque in Ashburton.
In February 2019, he registered a new Twitter account, the caption of the Twitter account, which was the victim of a 2016 terrorist attack on Bastille Day in Nice, France. The famous photo shot by Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard has been used to represent the Bastille massacre in which 84 people were killed by a truck that crashed into holiday crowds.
By this time, a massacre was inevitable, and in New Zealand who could have imagined that the devil had such a strange choice to suddenly bring terror, this man-made disaster, Come to such a small country where a fruit fly can make headlines all over the country?
Where did guns come from?
As a white supremacist, no doubt, where did guns come from? Video of the massacre on live broadcast shows at least several offensive weapons, including semi-automatic rifle, shotgun, with the names of whites killed in the European attacks and anti-immigrant slogans on those weapons and cartridges.
According to New Zealand media reports on Friday night, security experts believe gunman may have been assisted by a small number of people in Christchurch.
Paul Buchanan, a New Zealand security expert, said gunman`s shoot skills showed that they were either ex-servicemen or had specialized training. "as far as I know, their guns may have been modified, and it takes technology, people who know it, to turn hunting weapons into semi-automatic weapons."
"they had large cartridges, they used fire butts, this device was used by gunman in the Las Vegas shooting, and they must have learned something from that case," he said. He said that if analyzed from a security perspective, the mosque attack exposed a number of problems, New Zealand intelligence services have shifted the direction of prevention, "the intelligence services are on the wrong path."
In the gunman live broadcast video, there are at least three guns in the front seat.
When gunman opened the rear cover, two more guns and petrol barrels appeared.
Gunman took a semi-automatic rifle in the front seat, and then took a shotgun from the back of the car and entered the mosque.
Gunman uses shotgun to open the door and then semi-automatic rifle shots
Of the 49 deaths, 41 were in mosque in Deans Ave, 7 in the mosque attack in Linwood and 1 in a hospital.
Paul Buchanan, a security expert, says gunman should be backed by a small number of people in Christchurch. He is not a "lone wolf". This is because it is not easy to get automatic or semi-automatic weapons without a gun certificate in New Zealand.
The attack was worse and more profound than the Rainbow Warrior explosion case and the Trades' Hall explosion case many years ago, "because the shoot case shows that we are not living in an immune environment. We are also infected with extremist viruses. "
New Zealand`s 3.15 terror massacre, New Zealand`s 9.11, will have a far-reaching impact on the country.
Friday afternoon outside mosque photo: stuff.co.nz
Friday night incident near mosque photo: stuff.co.nz
Friday night Christchurch citizens lay flowers near the site of the incident photo: stuff.co.nz
New Zealand parliament flags down at half-mast Stuff picture
Watch out for extreme thoughts around you, even if they don`t have a gun in their hands now.
