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August 27, 2020

White Supremacist Terrorist Gets Life in Prison for New Zealand Mosque Shootings
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In New Zealand, a court has sentenced a self-professed white nationalist
gunman to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after
convicting him on 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and
engaging in a terrorist act. In March of last year, 29-year-old
Australian Brenton Tarrant emailed out a racist manifesto minutes before
he opened fire with an assault rifle at two mosques in the city of
Christchurch, live-streaming his massacre on Facebook. Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern welcomed the sentencing.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: "The trauma of March 15 is not easily
healed, but today, I hope, is the last where we have any cause to hear
or utter the name of the terrorist behind it. His deserves to be a
lifetime of complete and utter silence."



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