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The Royal Commission of Inquiry also criticized police for failing to inspect the necessary examination when issuing a firearm license to Australian Brenton Tarrant, who issued a racist statement shortly before carrying out the attack and filmed the shooting on a broadcast on I live on Facebook.
However, despite the shortcomings, the committee said there were no failures within government agencies that would prevent the attack on the two mosques on March 15, 2019.
“The commission has not reached any conclusions that these issues would have prevented the attack, but they are flaws, for which I apologize,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement after the report was released.
Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole in August for the attack, in which dozens were also injured.
Ardern has earned international accolades for his sympathy for the victims of the attack and his swift prevention of the sale of semi-automatic weapons, as well as the kind used by Tarrant, and has also launched a global movement against extremism on the Internet.
But authorities have come under fire for repeatedly ignoring Muslim warnings about an increase in hate crimes against them.
The 800-page report said: “There was an inappropriate focus of resources” on the threat of extremist terrorism. “
The Royal Commission of Inquiry received reports from various Islamic organizations, describing how it feels that it is being attacked by the security services, while the threats it faces are not taken seriously.
The Islamic Council of Women said in a statement: “We found it disturbing that investigators saw a systemic failure and inappropriate focus of resources towards extremist terrorism, and it is said despite this that this would not have made a difference from monitor the terrorist before the event. “
The report said there was no logical way to monitor Tarrant’s plans “except by chance.”
