![]() ![]() "I will not change my opinion about New Zealand. Find out moreĬarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire."It's good for the world to see what's happened because people around the world, they thought we were terrorists because some stupid people, they said they are Muslims, they go and kill innocent people, they thought we are terrorists," said Abulaban who emigrated to New Zealand from Jordan 17 years ago. ![]() He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide. ![]() The names written on his weapons include Luca Traini, an Italian man who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the drive-by shooting of six African migrants in February last year.Īlexandre Bissonnette is serving a life sentence for killing six people and injuring five others in a shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in 2017. Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general from the 16th Century who his army to victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. Get the latest news from in your inbox.The following is an abridged version of our classification decision on the Christchurch Mosque Attack Livestream. Please be advised some of the content discussed could be distressing for the reader. For the full legal decision, please see the linked file at the end of this document.Ĭhristchurch Mosque Attack Livestream is a video of a terrorist attack in Christchurch. The video features footage of the mass murder of worshippers in a New Zealand mosque viewed in a ‘first person’ perspective via a camera apparently fixed to the attacker’s helmet.Ī man is shown in a car with a large cache of weapons. He travels to his destination while listening to music in his car. The video depicts the shooting of many people, including men, women and at least one young person. Injuries and deaths are clearly depicted. The attacker then drives away from the crime scene, stopping to fire a shotgun through the windscreen, and also at pedestrians through the front passenger window. The audio track records him analysing his performance and the performance of his weaponry during the attack, before the video cuts out. The Classification Office understands that the video was originally live-streamed on Facebook and subsequently uploaded to other websites and platforms. Classification criteriaĪccording to Section 3(1) of the Films, Videos & Publications Classifications Act (FVPC Act) a publication is objectionable if it describes, depicts, expresses, or otherwise deals with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good. ![]() The video in question deals with matters of horror, crime, cruelty and violence. It documents events immediately prior to, during, and after the mass murder of peaceful and unarmed civilians at a Christchurch mosque. Much of the sound and imagery is horrific. Under s3(2)(f) of the FVPC Act, this publication also promotes and supports the infliction of extreme violence or extreme cruelty. The attacker repeatedly returns to the same building to inflict injury and death, while reloading or picking up new weapons. Victims are shot and killed as they try to avoid the attacker, while they lie wounded, or while they try to protect others. The murders and bodies are shown in detail. The first-person perspective of the camera records the actions of the attacker, creating the disturbing effect of seeing the attack from his perspective. The video is clearly intended to record, share and glorify the acts of extreme violence and cruelty depicted, namely the graphic mass murder of unsuspecting victims. There is nothing present that denounces such activity. The video is therefore considered to promote and support the infliction of extreme violence and cruelty. ![]()
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