“What happened today was despicable. It was full of hatred, it was bad, it was done by an individual, not by faith or culture or ethnicity, but by an individual who was trapped by an ideology that is not supported by anyone or any community, “Ardern said, signaling that it was not the origin man and his religion, but that he was influenced by the terrorist Islamic State. She mentioned that he was influenced by IS, but it was a lone wolf.
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The prime minister added that the authorities knew about him. He arrived in New Zealand in 2011 and has been a secret service interest since 2016. She mentioned that he was currently under surveillance.
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Unconfirmed footage of the attack has appeared on social networks
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Police Commissioner Andrew Coster defended the law enforcement action: “The fact is, even if you watch someone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it’s not possible to be behind them all the time. The officers intervened as quickly as they could, preventing the injury of other people. ”The police intervened a minute after the attack.
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Rescuers took one critically ill patient to the hospital, three in serious condition, one person having minor injuries after the attack. Police said the attacker died on the spot.
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Panic after the attack
According to the witness, hysteria broke out in the store after the attack. “People were running out, hysterically, just screaming, yelling, scared,” Staff told NZ NZ. He added that he saw an older man with a stab wound lying on the ground.
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Other witnesses also testified that they saw several people with stab wounds lying on the floor of the store. Others said they heard gunshots as they fled the store. However, it is not clear whether the attacker had a firearm or whether it was a police fire.
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New Zealand experienced the worst attack to date in March, when a terrorist convinced of the superiority of the white race shot a total of 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch. In May this year, a certain attacker stabbed four people in a supermarket in Dunedin.
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