She was asked if she had any information from Australia about whether they had been on watch-lists and said: 'My understanding at this stage is that they weren't on watch-lists.'Īsked about the ages of victims, she said: 'I will have been amongst other members of the public who will have seen the footage as the injured were being brought to Christchurch A&E and you certainly can see from that footage there is a real range of ages there.
Ms Ardern was asked about the attackers not being on intelligence agency watch-lists and said it was an indication they 'had not acted in a way that warranted it'. Issuing the strongest possible condemnation of the ideology of the people who did this', she said: “You may have chosen us but we utterly reject and condemn you.” We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities and 160 languages.” And those values will not and can not be shaken by this attack. “We represent diversity and compassion, a home for those who share our values, a refuge for those who need it. A place where it was safe to practice their culture and religion. 'It was a place where many came to for their safety. For many New Zealand was their choice, a place they actively came to and committed themselves to. For many this may have not been the place they were born. “I want to send a message to those directly affected. New Zealand's PM Jacinda Arden said: “We New Zealanders were not chosen for this act of violence because we condone this racism, or because we are an enclave of extremism, we were chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things. 'I've lived next door to this mosque for about five years and the people are great, they're very friendly,' he said. He said he helped about five people recover in his home. 'I don't understand how anyone could do this to these people, to anyone. There were three in the hallway, at the door leading into the mosque, and people inside the mosque,' he said. Mr Peneha said he then went into the mosque to try to help. Mr Peneha, who lives next door to the mosque, said the gunman ran out of the mosque, dropped what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon in his drive, and fled.
Witness Len Peneha said he saw a man dressed in black enter the mosque and then heard dozens of shots, followed by people running from the mosque in terror. The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern later described the incident as an event which can 'only be described as a terrorist attack'.
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8chan is a messaging board where the shooter was suspected to have developed and published his manifesto prior to the attack.įour people are in custody after New Zealand Police said there had been 'multiple fatalities' following what they described as a 'tragic series of events' in the Canterbury region on Friday. Following a mass shooting at a Christchurch mosque on Friday 15 March, three New Zealand ISPs have blocked access to the websites 8chan, 4chan and LiveLeak. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed in. New Zealand internet service providers have reportedly started blocking sites that do not remove the video, including 8chan, 4chan and LiveLeak. At least 49 people are believed to have died in two terror attacks on mosques in Christchurch.
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