Extremist appears in court charged with New Zealand mosque attack

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A right-wing extremist who filmed himself rampaging through two mosques in the quiet New Zealand city of Christchurch ...

in the quiet New Zealand city of Christchurch killing 49 worshippers appeared in court on a murder charge Saturday .

Forty-two people are still being treated in hospital for injuries, including a four year old child, after an attack thought to be the deadliest directed against Muslims in the West in modern times.Outside the court, guarded by heavily armed police in body armour, the sons of 71-year-old Afghan man Daoud Nabi demanded justice.

Ardern described the spree killing as a terrorist attack and said the shooter - who was not on any watchlist and did not have a criminal record - had legally purchased the two semi-automatic weapons, two shotguns and lever-action gun he used. The suspect documented his radicalisation and two years of preparations in a lengthy, meandering and conspiracy filled far-right"manifesto".going room-to-room, victim to victim, shooting the wounded from close range as they struggled to crawl away in the main Christchurch mosque.

Speaking in Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the gunman as"an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist". The attack has shocked New Zealanders, who are used to seeing around 50 murders a year in the entire country of 4.8 million and pride themselves on living in a secure and welcoming place.

 

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It already live streamed its pathetic act n its face already all over the net. Unless its covered to not show its face beaten black n blue or wif pus leaking as retribution.

A terrorist why extremist?

Why are we blocking the face of a killer? A terrorist..

He's a TERRORIST!

He is a “Terrorist” and Islamophobic extremist.

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