People present in the mosques and their families are expected to be at increased risk of developing mental health disorders, a concern acknowledged by those within the small Christchurch Muslim community community of about 4000 people.
The scale and violence of these attacks is unprecedented in New Zealand 1 and is one of the worst mass shootings in history. A further 40 people were shot (including some with serious, life-changing injuries), many others had minor injuries and there were up to 250 survivors. The attacks lasted only a few minutes but resulted in 51 fatalities. Get the latest news from in your inbox.On 15 March 2019, a white supremacist gunman opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand 1 during Friday juma’a (congregational) prayers. Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general from the 16th Century who his army to victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. The names written on his weapons include Luca Traini, an Italian man who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the drive-by shooting of six African migrants in February last year.Īlexandre Bissonnette is serving a life sentence for killing six people and injuring five others in a shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in 2017.
The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide. The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire. Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters
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