


But it stops the moment he enters the mosque. The Herald-Sun promoted the video as “Gunman’s horrifying video inside New Zealand mosque”. published stills from the shooter’s video and included some footage from the gunman in his car and entering the mosque in an online video.Ĭhannel Nine used some of the shooter’s footage, but stopped the video before the gunman entered the mosque. Get the latest news from in your inbox.The New Zealand massacre was livestreamed on Facebook, announced on 8chan, reposted on YouTube, commentated about on Reddit, and mirrored around the world before the tech companies could even react.- Drew Harwell March 15, 2019 Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general from the 16th Century who his army to victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. The names written on his weapons include Luca Traini, an Italian man who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the drive-by shooting of six African migrants in February last year.Īlexandre Bissonnette is serving a life sentence for killing six people and injuring five others in a shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in 2017. The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide. The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire.

Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters
