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New Zealand mosque attack suspect visited Croatia, police say, death toll rises to 50
[AlAhram] The Australian holy warrior suspected of carrying out the New Zealand mosque massacre visited Croatia just over two years ago, police told the Hina news agency on Saturday.Brenton Tarrant was charged in court on Saturday, with Sherlocks now trying to piece together how his holy warrior views managed to go undetected by the intelligence services. "The police have information about the movements of this person in December 2016 and January 2017," a spokeswoman for Croatia police said. Earlier on Saturday, local media said Tarrant had visited Zagreb during that period as well as several other towns on Croatia's Adriatic coast, including Zadar, Sibenik and Dubrovnik. Croatian Sherlocks are looking into the reasons for his visit, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told HRT national television. On Friday, Bulgaria also began investigating a recent visit by Tarrant between November 9-15 last year, claiming he wanted "to visit historical sites and study the history of the Balkan country," chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said. He had also made a short visit to the Balkans from December 28-30, 2016, travelling by bus across Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, they said. Media reports said the gunman had listened to a Serbian song about convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic en route to the massacre, and also had the names of two historical Serbian and Montenegro leaders written in Cyrillic on his gun. Ethnic hatreds fuelled the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, sparking wars that left 130,000 dead and displaced millions as borders were redrawn.
The suspected assailant visited Bulgaria from November 9-15 last year claiming he wanted "to visit historical sites and study the history of the Balkan country", Bulgaria's public prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said, adding that the inquiry would establish if this was "correct or if he had other objectives."
Coleman didn't specify the comments he was referring to. Yiannopoulos said on Facebook that attacks like Christchurch happen because "the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures." Lawmakers within Australia's conservative government had been quarreling in recent weeks on whether the firebrand commentator should be allowed to tour Australia this year.
A TRT investigation shows that he included the name of Alexandre Bissonnette on his rifle. In 2017, Bissonnette murdered six people at a mosque in Canada. He also added Anton Lundlin Pettersson ‐ a student who murdered two migrant children in Sweden ‐ onto the stock of the gun. According to Italia’s The Local, he also added the name Luca Traini onto one of his clips of ammunition. In 2018, Traini injured six people in a racially motivated attack on black people in Macerata. Death toll rises to 50 as New Zealand mourns mosque massacre victims [IsraelTimes] Two other suspects arrested not connected to Brenton Tarrant’s assault on Christchurch mosques, police say, amid outpouring of grief in shaken nation The death toll from horrifying shootings at two mosques in New Zealand rose to 50, police said Sunday, as Christchurch residents flocked to memorial sites and churches across the city Sunday to lay flowers and mourn the victims. The additional death was discovered as bodies were being removed from the mosques in the southern city, police said, with forensic officers from across New Zealand flying into the city to assist with the identification process. Another man arrested on Friday will appear in court on Monday on charges that are “tangential” to the attacks, though he was not believed to be involved in the shootings, Police Commissioner Mike Bush told reporters Sunday. Two other suspects arrested at a police cordon during the attacks when a firearm was found in their car were not directly involved in Tarrant’s assault, he added. One of the two, a woman, has been released, and a man remains in custody on firearms charges, Bush said. “At this moment, only one person has been charged in relation to these attacks,” he said. Fifty people were wounded in the carnage, and doctors have worked around the clock to treat the 36 people still hospitalized for gunshot wounds and other injuries sustained in the attacks. Muslims make up just one percent of New Zealand’s population.
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