New Zealand police have told Muslims to stay away from mosques. Photo: AP
New Zealand shootings: ‘How do you tell a child some people don’t like you because you’re Muslim?’
- Sumeera Dawood, who moved from South Africa in 2016, says the attacks were ‘completely out of the blue’
- PM Jacinda Ardern alluded to anti-immigrant sentiment as the possible motive, saying that many people affected by the shootings could be migrants
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New Zealand police have told Muslims to stay away from mosques. Photo: AP
Officers from the Armed Offenders Squad push back members of the public following the shooting. Photo: Reuters
New Zealand shooting: Christchurch mosque gunman posted racist manifesto online before rampage
- Entitled ‘The Great Replacement’, the document said the gunman had wanted to attack Muslims
- He said that key point in his radicalisation was the defeat of the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in 2017 polls
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Officers from the Armed Offenders Squad push back members of the public following the shooting. Photo: Reuters