How did the New Zealand 3.15 terrorist massacre unfold?

3.15 New Zealand strikes

Death: 49 people

Injured: 48 people

Arrest: 4 people (3 Australians)

"New Zealand cannot tolerate them and the world cannot tolerate it." - New Zealand Prime Minister Jainda Ardern

The event changed from April to May 2017. Prior to this, Brenton Tarrant was an ordinary young man from Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. He was born into a low-income, working-class family with ancestors who are Scottish, Irish and English, and he is particularly valued. He passed an ordinary childhood. At school, he didn't have much interest in going to school, and sometimes he couldn't pass the exam.

Brenton Tarrant When I was Australia ABC News Pictures

He is not interested in going to college. In Grafton, Australia, he worked as a fitness instructor for 7 years. After working for a while and spending some money, he invested in bitcoin to make some small money and then earned it like many young people. The money goes abroad for travel.

From the beginning of April 2017 to the end of May 2017, it was a brief period of complete transformation of his outlook on life. At this time, it was just two years before he launched a massive terrorist massacre in New Zealand.

At that time, his footsteps as a young tourist in the southern hemisphere were on the land of Western Europe. France, Spain, Portugal and other countries. The first incident that triggered a change in the heart was the Stockholm terrorist attack that killed five people and injured many people on April 7, 2017. Although the terrorist attacks have been heard in adulthood, I don’t know why, after the terrorist attacks in Stockholm, they have produced ideas that they have never had before, and this idea has begun to linger.

Stockholm Strike in 2017, picture: Swedish Aftonbladet

In particular, the photo of the 11-year-old girl Ebba Akerlund after the terrorist attack in Stockholm accelerated his transformation. Ebba Akerlund was killed by terrorists driving trucks during the Islamic terrorist attacks in Stockholm. The girl was only 11 years old and was a deaf-mute child. She couldn't hear the sound when the truck crashed into the mall, so she did not evade. Almost from then on, he began to transform from a common person who pursued Western democracy and political solutions to a radical and sought-after solution. Hatred instead of indifference, for specific ethnicities, specific religions, he began There is a set of ideas that are self-explanatory.

The place where he completed the final transformation was in France. The 2017 French election and the experience of his French towns accelerated the final transformation. Before he went to France, he had already heard stories about refugee problems, the decline of white status, and the "invasion" of foreigners. After he went to France, he believed that the stories he had heard in the past were not only true, but also deepened hatred. Once he traveled to a small town in eastern France, the town was between 1.5 and 25,000 people. He drove a rented car to the door of the mall and walked through a series of "invaders" in his eyes to enter the mall. Start to make him angry: In his eyes, the future of Europe should be European, that is, white Europeans.

He drove angrily away to the next town, but he found that in any town he could not avoid what he called an "invader." So he began to think that political solutions could not solve the problems in Europe, and the extreme way to replace them was to physically erase them.

When the gunman was arrested on Friday afternoon, the picture came from the network.

Why did you choose the most innocent New Zealand?

Before starting his plan, he studied the issue of fertility. He learned that Western society must maintain an average fertility rate of 2.06 per woman in order to achieve positive population growth. In the current Western countries, "no matter whether it is the United States, Australia or New Zealand, it can't be achieved", so "it is filled with a large number of immigrants." He traveled to Europe's war cemetery and thought that those who tried to protect European culture and land and fight for it would not be satisfied with a country composed of a large number of immigrants now "invaded", which is "the extinction of whites" - - A typical white supremacist at this time has been fully equipped.

Stuff picture outside the mosque after the incident on Friday

At the time of planning the massacre, New Zealand was not the first to enter the gunner's mind. As an Australian, he can easily get in and out of New Zealand. Originally, he plans to come to New Zealand for firearms training, and plans to launch an attack against Muslim immigrants in a certain country.

Gunner Brenton Tarrant picture of ABC News in Pakistan in 2018

The gunman once went to North Korea to travel to ABC News

However, after he came to New Zealand for a temporary residence, he found that New Zealand’s “situation is the same as in other Western countries.” He believes that launching an attack in New Zealand will attract world attention and let people know that “no place in the world is safe. The intruders came to our land, even in the most remote parts of the world. "Nowhere is there a safe place without large-scale immigration."

He began to investigate the New Zealand mosque for several months.
Two mosques that have been attacked by SBS News

Two mosques that have been attacked by SBS News

In the beginning, he targeted the mosque in Dunedin, South Island. He believed that the Muslims there were most active in sharing content. He watched their videos and set the target there. However, his ideas changed when he surveyed mosques in the Christchurch area, including the mosque in the Linwood area and a mosque converted from a church in Ashburton. He felt that Christchurch's conditions were the most appropriate and could have the greatest impact. He plans to attack the mosque in the interior of Christchurch before moving on to the mosque in Ashburton.

In February 2019, he registered a new Twitter account, and the head map of the Twitter account was the victim of the 2016 Nice Bastille Day terrorist attack in France. This famous photo taken by Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard has been used to represent the massacre on Bastille Day, and 84 people were killed by a truck crashing into the holiday crowd.

At this point, a massacre has inevitably happened, and who in New Zealand can think of the devil's choice so that the horror suddenly comes, and the man-made disaster can come to such a fruit fly. Is it a small country that has made headlines in the country?

Where did the gun come from?

Confirmed as a white supremacist, where did the gun come from? From the video of the slaughter live broadcast, at least a number of offensive weapons, including semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, on these weapons and magazines, the names of whites who died in European strikes, and some white supremacons.



According to New Zealand media reports on Friday night, security experts believe that gunmen may be assisted by a small number of people in the Christchurch area.

New Zealand security expert Paul Buchanan said that the gunmen's shooting skills are skilled, indicating that they are either veterans or have specialized training. "As far as I know, their guns may have been modified. It requires some technology. Skilled people can convert hunting weapons into semi-automatic weapons." He said, "They have large-capacity magazines and use firearms. The equipment was used by gunmen in the Las Vegas gun case, and they must have learned from that case." He believes that if analyzed from a security perspective, the mosque attack exposed many problems, the New Zealand intelligence department The direction of prevention has shifted, "the intelligence department is on the wrong road."

In the live shooter video, there are at least 3 guns in the front seat position.

After the gunman opened the back cover, another 2 guns and petrol cans appeared.

The gunman took a semi-automatic rifle in the front seat and took a shotgun from the rear of the car and entered the mosque.

The gunman first opened the door with a shotgun, and then fired with a semi-automatic rifle.

Security expert Paul Buchanan believes that the gunman should receive support from a small group of people in Christchurch. He is not a "lone wolf." This is because automatic or semi-automatic weapons are not easily obtained without a gun in New Zealand.

The attack was even worse than the "Rainbow Warrior" bombings and the Trades' Hall bombings many years ago. The impact is even more profound. "Because this shooting shows that we are not living in an immune environment... we are also infected. Extremist virus."

The New Zealand 3.15 terrorist massacre is New Zealand’s 9/11 and will have a profound impact on the country.

Outside the mosque Photo: stuff.co.nz

Christ City people laid flowers near the scene on Friday night. Photo: stuff.co.nz

New Zealand Congress halved flag to mourn Stuff Pictures

Be alert to the extreme thoughts around you, even if they don't have a gun in their hands.