'Not A Faith': Jacinda Ardern Blames 'Individual' For New Zealand Terror Attack

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“It was hateful, it was wrong, it was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took aim at a “violent extremist” who stabbed and wounded six people with a knife in aThe New Zealand prime minister described the incident as a “terrorist attack” after a Sri Lankan national wounded civilians in Auckland.Ardern continued: “What happened today was despicable.”

She was also keen to keep blame solely on the individual responsible, saying: Ardern said the attacker, who was not identified, was “obviously a supporter of ISIS ideology,” in reference to the Islamic State terror group. Friday’s attacker had been in New Zealand for a decade. He had been under constant surveillance for the last five years due to concerns about his ideology, according to the prime minister.and initially thought he was going into the supermarket to do some shopping. The individual allegedly picked up a knife from a supermarket display before “running around like a lunatic,” shopper Michelle Miller told the Stuff news outlet.Three out of the six people he wounded were in critical condition.

Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media at a press conference with the details of the Auckland supermarket terror attack.

 

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