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Christchurch mosque attacks / Tarrant 'Great Replacement' manifesto (Mar 15 2019)
On March 15 2019 Brenton Harrison Tarrant (28, Australian) attacked Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Avenue Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people. He livestreamed 17 minutes on Facebook and distributed a 74-page manifesto titled 'The Great Replacement' echoing French author Renaud Camus. The New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry (report released Dec 8 2020) was satisfied that Tarrant acted alone and concluded he was appropriately labelled a lone actor, while judging it likely that his thinking was affected by far-right online communities and by extensive viewing of similar material on YouTube. Tarrant pleaded guilty on Mar 26 2020 to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and one terrorism charge — the first terrorism conviction under the NZ Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 — and on Aug 27 2020 was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, the first such sentence in New Zealand history. In April 2026 the Court of Appeal rejected his out-of-time bid to overturn his convictions.
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