Brenton Tarrant

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Brenton Harrison Tarrant (* 1990 or 1991 in Grafton , New South Wales ) is an Australian right-wing extremist and mass murderer who committed the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch , New Zealand on March 15, 2019 .

Life

Brenton Tarrant came from Grafton (New South Wales), a place around 500 km northeast of Sydney . His father, the workers had died in 2010 at the age of 49 years to cancer . Brenton Tarrant worked as a fitness instructor in a gym in his hometown. His mother works as a teacher and he has a sister. With the money inherited from his father, Tarrant toured Europe and Asia from 2010 after quitting his job. According to other reports, he will the money for trips to the trading of cryptocurrency deserve Bitconnect. He traveled to Serbia , Bulgaria , Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Korea , among others .

In 2017 he moved to Dunedin , New Zealand. There he became a member of the Bruce Rifle Club. Since November 2017 he had a New Zealand gun license. On January 5, 2018, he donated a sum of 1,500 euros to Martin Sellner , a leader of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria. As it turned out later, he and Martin Sellner had written contact several times afterwards, promising each other beer and coffee.

On March 15, 2019, Tarrant carried out a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch , killing 51 people between the ages of three and seventy-one. Another 50 people were injured. Tarrant, along with three other suspects, was arrested the same day and said they wanted to defend themselves in court.

ideology

Tarrant exchanged information on right-wing forums , Reddit and 8chan . On the Facebook pages of the right-wing organizations United Patriots Front and True Blue Crew in Australia, which have since been shut down, Tarrant left more than 30 comments before April 2016 in which he praised their anti-Islamist position and the leader of the United Patriots Front Blair Cotrell as "Emperor" (" Kaiser ") highlighted.

Shortly before his murders, Tarrant posted a 74-page pamphlet entitled "The Great Replacement" (in the English original: "The Great Replacement - Towards a New Society"). Tarrant refers to environmental issues and climate change in over a dozen places. He writes about himself: "I am an ethno-nationalistic eco-fascist". The manifesto consists of a mixture of right-wing extremist conspiracy theories , ethnic and racist theories of white supremacy and borrowings from the language and content of fascist internet activists . In it he stated that he did not belong to any particular organization and that he had planned the attacks in Christchurch in the previous three months. He wanted to stir up fear among Muslims, he named as one of his motives. With the legend of the "Great Exchange", according to which work is being carried out on an "exchange" of the population in Europe towards a Muslim population, he took up ideas of the New Right and describes the German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the mother of all "anti-white and anti-Germanic" Operations. In the title he referred to the propaganda legend of the "Great Exchange" spread by the new right-wing Identitarian Movement . It has now been proven that the leading ideologue of the Austrian identities Martin Sellner and Brenton Tarrant were in contact on several occasions.

He described Muslims as a danger that had to be eradicated. In addition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he also named Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Sadiq Khan , the first Muslim mayor of London , as “the greatest enemies of the white race” and helpers of the “Danger Islam” , and called for attacks on the three politicians on.

Tarrant also made a reference to wars in the Balkans. In fact, he played Željko Grmuša's March Karadžiću vodi Srbe svoje ( Karadžić , lead your Serbs ) on his car radio , which was used by Serbian Chetniks in the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995.

In his pamphlet he referred to the assassin Anders Breivik . He got "true inspiration" from him. His act is similar in approach and motive to the attacks by Breivik . He murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011. Like Breivik, Tarrant gave in his accompanying letter the "defense against intruders" as the central motive. Tarrant wrote that he had also read the writings of Dylann Roof . Roof had in June 2015 Charleston in the US state of South Carolina shot nine African-American churchgoers in a church.

process

Brenton Tarrant was formally charged in May 2019 with 51 counts of terrorism and murder and 40 counts of attempted murder. More than 200 people, including family members of victims and survivors, attended the public announcement of the allegations. He had denied all charges in June 2019, but in March 2020 he finally pleaded guilty. In late August 2020, Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison with no early release option. Such a sentence had never been imposed in New Zealand before.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christchurch terror attack: Life of alleged killer Brenton Tarrant , newshub.co.nz, March 16, 2019
  2. ↑ What is known about NZ shooting suspect? March 16, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Man threw himself in the line of fire: Children among the Christchurch victims , n-tv , March 16, 2019
  4. ↑ Terror in Christchurch: Mosque assassin Brenton Tarrant in court - he wanted to commit further acts , Aargauer Zeitung , March 16, 2019
  5. ↑ Hasnain Kazim : Austria, the Identitarians and the Terrorist of Christchurch. Spiegel online from March 30, 2019
  6. ↑ FOCUS Online: Identity boss Sellner invited assassins from Christchurch to coffee. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Assassination attempt in Christchurch: Police find more dead , spiegel.de , March 16, 2019
  8. ↑ From 3 to 71 years: The victims of the Christchurch mosque attack , euronews.de , March 16, 2019
  9. ↑ Brenton Tarrant waives a lawyer
  10. ↑ Alex Mann et al: Christchurch shooting accused Brenton Tarrant supports Australian far-right figure Blair Cottrell (English), March 23, 2019, on Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved April 27, 2019
  11. ↑ Hannes Grassegger, The Benjamin Green case , in: Das Magazin (Zurich) No. 27. of July 6, 2019, pages 10–20, quotation p. 17, online . Retrieved July 7, 2019
  12. ^ Right-wing extremist terror in New Zealand: "Monster" accused of murder , taz.de, March 16, 2019
  13. ↑ After the attack in New Zealand: How big is the right-wing extremist hatred of Islam worldwide? , General-Anzeiger , March 16, 2019
  14. ↑ 'Violent terrorist': Who is the white supremacist suspected in New Zealand mosque shootings? Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Georg Mascolo , Sebastian Pittelkow Katja Riedel: How close were "identities" and Christchurch assassins? , from May 15, 2019, on Tagesschau-Nachrichten . Retrieved May 24, 2019
  16. ↑ a b c L'essentiel: Perpetrator worships Breivik and wants to kill Merkel. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ attack on mosques: Terror Sagittarius New Zealand revered Serbian heroes and Chetnik songs , kosmo.at, March 15, 2019
  18. ↑ The Balkan Trail of the Christchurch Attack. Deutsche Welle from March 18, 2019
  19. Jump up ↑ New Zealand - Christchurch bombers charged with terrorism. Retrieved on May 23, 2019 (German).
  20. ^ ZEIT ONLINE: New Zealand: Christchurch assassin charged with terrorism . In: The time . May 21, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 23, 2019]).
  21. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Alleged Christchurch assassin pleads not guilty - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  22. ↑ tagesschau.de: Christchurch assassin declares himself guilty. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  23. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Trial in New Zealand: Alleged Christchurch assassin pleads guilty - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  24. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: New Zealand: Christchurch assassin sentenced to life imprisonment - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tarrant, Brenton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian convicted terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1990 or 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafton , New South Wales , Australia