The Christchurch mosque shooter in police custody. | Stock Photo
Key points
- The massacre left dozens of wounded in a country like New Zealand, considered one of the most peaceful in the world.
- The 792-page report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry noted that after leaving high school, the 30-year-old attacker worked at a local gym as a personal trainer until 2012.
Melbourne: The horrific terrorist attack on March 15, 2019 on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, caused waves around the world. Possibly the worst massacre in the history of the Commonwealth country, the attack also had five Indian victims.
Almost two years later, a detailed report on the shootings revealed that Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born attacker who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at the two Christchurch mosques, spent nearly three months in India, along with extensive travels around the world, before moving in. to New Zealand to carry out the attacks.
The massacre also injured dozens of people in a country like New Zealand, considered one of the most peaceful in the world.
The 792-page report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry noted that after leaving high school, the 30-year-old attacker worked at a local gym as a personal trainer until 2012.
“He never went back to work in paid employment. Instead, he lived off the money he had received from his father and the income from investments made with him. With his father’s money, the individual traveled a lot. First, in 2013, he explored New Zealand and Australia and then, between 2014 and 2017, he traveled extensively around the world, ”the report states, according to the news agency. PTI.
Between April 15, 2014 and August 17, 2017, Tarrant traveled extensively around the world, mostly alone, except for North Korea.
“The longest visit the person made to a country was to India, where they stayed between November 21, 2015 and February 18, 2016. Countries they visited for periods of about a month or more included China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. , among others, “says the report, which took 18 months to write.
However, the report did not release details of Tarrant’s whereabouts in India.
Strangely, The New Zealand Herald It said in a report that there was no evidence that the attacker met extremist groups during his travels, investigated potential targets, or even underwent training.
“In short, he traveled a lot because he could and had nothing better to do,” the investigation report says.
