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New Zealand’s collective backlash at Christchurch film

New Zealand’s collective backlash at Christchurch film

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER JACINDA Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, has reacted negatively to the plans for a film about the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, calling them ill-timed. News has been travelling from Hollywood on the plans for a film that would be based on the mosque shooting, in which a gunman opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, killing 51 people and wounding 40.  Ardern responded to a question posed to her on  TVNZ’s Breakfast show, saying that she felt that a film on the attacks felt “too soon” and “too raw” for the people of New Zealand.  “While…
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New Zealand shooter emotionless as victims’ families address sentencing hearing

New Zealand shooter emotionless as victims’ families address sentencing hearing

PRAVEEN MENON A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand last year watched without emotion on Monday as relatives of his victims recounted the horror of a massacre which prosecutors said he carefully planned to cause maximum carnage. Australian national Brenton Tarrant, 29, has pleaded guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders and one charge of committing a terrorist act during the shooting rampage in the city of Christchurch which he live-streamed on Facebook. He could be the first person in New Zealand to receive a term of life in prison without parole, when a…
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