At least 50 people are drained and dozens more have been seriously wounded during multiple terror attacks today in Christchurch , New Zealand . The attacker used several retentive guns to target Muslims at two mosques and had what law identify as explosive devices . One series of attacks was livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes . Three hoi polloi have been arrested , according to theNew Zealand Herald .
One of the terrorists has been identified as a 28 - year - old originally from Grafton , Australia who released a pronunciamento replete with blanched supremacist hatred , consultation to cyberspace refinement , and praise for PresidentDonald Trumpas a “ symbolisation of renewed whitened identity . ” Facebook has delete the terrorist ’s Instagram and Facebookpages .
“ Our hearts go out to the dupe , their families and the community touch by this frightening number , ” a Facebook administrator for Australia and New Zealand , Mia Garlick , toldthe Guardian .
“ New Zealand police force alarm us to a video on Facebook shortly after the springy - stream begin and we cursorily removed both the shooter ’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the television , ” Garlick continued . “ We ’re also slay any praise or backup for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we ’re cognisant . We will continue work directly with New Zealand police as their reply and investigating extend . ”
TV news show stations in Australia broadcast portions of the hired gun ’s telecasting , but switch off out shortly before the terrorist entered one of the mosque . Police in New Zealand had asked that the videonot be partake .
The terrorist manifesto looks like an attempt to troll the media and was posted to sites likeScribdbefore being taken down . One of the assaulter can be hear saying “ commend chap , support to PewDiePie ” in the video shortly before one of the shootings , a character reference to a democratic YouTube personality who has previously received unfavorable judgment for helping to spreadwhite supremacist rhetoric . PewDiePie , whose real name is Felix Kjellberg , twitch his commiseration read that he was “ absolutely sickened ” by the attacks .
At least 41 people were killed at the Deans Avenue mosque and another seven expire at the Linwood Avenue mosque in Christchurch , according to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern , who gave a pressing group discussion a few hours after the shootings began . Another twenty people were describe as having “ serious ” injuries .
Every social media company is playing whack - a - mol right now with cognitive content that was created by the attackers . As the original video and pronunciamento get taken down on web site like Facebook and Scribd , they ’re carry again to piazza like YouTube and Twitter .
“ Our heart are weaken over today ’s terrible tragedy in New Zealand . Please know we are working vigilantly to transfer any wild footage , ” YouTubetweeted .
One of the attacker ’s Facebook page was filled with links to white supremacist subject matter , including a number of anti - immigrant video on YouTube . The video - sharing site is possess by Google and has been a hub of extremism over the past few days , radicalizing young white men through a narrative that western country are being “ invaded ” by foreigners , and specifically Muslims .
The title of the manifesto , “ The Great Replacement , ” a reference to white mass being “ exchange ” by Muslims and other minority in western countries , has been echoed repeatedly in mainstream newsworthiness both in the U.S. and in Australia . Code words like “ replace ” are used by mainstream hatred - peddlers likeTucker Carlsonon Fox News , and the phrase “ Jews will not replace us ” was chanted at the infamous neo - Nazi rallying inCharlottesville in 2017 .
A Reddit forum called WatchPeopleDie was repeatedly posting the video , before New Zealand Police requested that the video be take down . Users on that meeting place scream “ censorship ” and were broken that their links were getting pulled .
White supremacist accounts on Twitter , a hotbed for neo - national socialist radicalization , were praising the shot . One account , for representative , tweeted , “ Only another 1.8 billion to go . ” Another specially disgusting accounttweeted , “ New Zealand man prevents dozens of rapes with this one weird trick ! ”
Gizmodo was able to find multiple re - uploads of the full 17 - instant video on YouTube minute after the attack . The video shows one of the shot from the gun ’s perspective , put down with a pass - mounted television camera in the style of a first - mortal shooter video game .
What sounds like polka music in a foreign language can be get word through the car ’s speakers as the gunman drive around . Another Song dynasty played in the car during the shootings has been account as “ 17th - century British military music ” by theSydney Morning Herald . The shooter is likely talk with at least one other someone in the back seat of the car .
The horrific TV shows the shooter killing men , women , and children . Some people are crawling on the floor after first getting gibe , and at least one man in a mosque is witness trying to agitate back against the attacker by rushing him , but he ’s kill as well . Some victim had cower in a corner where the hired gun repeatedly shoots into a mass of people .
“ There was n’t even time to aim , there were so many targets , ” you could try the terrorist say to his confederate in the back seat as they ’re driving around . [ Update : This may have just been the gun talking to his consultation on the livestream . I honestly just do n’t have the tummy to watch it again to confirm after seeing so many hoi polloi kick the bucket . ]
President Trump ’s only tweet so far about the incident has been a plug for Breitbart News without any kind of commentary denouncing the terrorist attacks .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1106390965038788608
[ Update , 8:46 AM : President Trump has delete his Breitbart tweet and twinge that his “ best want ” go out to the hoi polloi of New Zealand . ]
Far right politicians in Australia placed the blame on Muslims rather than the white Australian terrorist who carry out the shot .
“ The real cause of bloodbath on New Zealand street today is the in-migration computer program that allowed Muslim fiend to transmigrate to New Zealand in the first place , ” Australian senator Fraser Anning tweeted after the attacks .
“ Does anyone still dispute the connectedness between Muslim in-migration and violence ? ” Anning articulate in anotherhateful tweet .
The Prime Minister of New Zealand search to comfort a grieve nation and described the attack as the worst in the nation ’s history .
“ This is not who we are , ” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernsaid . “ This act was not a reflection of who we are as a res publica . That is why so many New Zealanders , every New Zealander , I opine , will be shocked by this today . Because this is not who we are . ”
“ This is something that all of us will dead reject and of course it will take time to heal , and tonight our cerebration and prayer need to be with those regard . ”
A crowdfunding campaign for the victims and families of the victims of today ’s terrorist attacks has been set up by a New Zealand nonprofit calledVictim Support . The website is in New Zealand dollars , which is presently at about $ 0.68 in American currency . That means , for model , that if you donate $ 20 NZ it will tear your credit circuit board $ 13.68 in U.S. dollars .
Overseas observers , you may like to make love that this is an prescribed fundraising Sir Frederick Handley Page in New Zealand for stand the victims and kinsperson of today ’s terrorist massacre.https://t.co/foNGhsxYej@monaeltahawy@LibyaLiberty@AGlasgowGirl@vanbadham
— thalia ( @sacraparental)March 15 , 2019
[ New Zealand HeraldandSydney Morning Herald ]
Update , March 18 : New Zealand police say a fiftieth dupe was found at the Al Noor mosque , CNNreports . An additional 34 people remain hospitalise , and 12 are in critical status as of Monday .
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