Politicians and world leaders condemned it, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as 'one of New Zealand's darkest days'. The attack was linked to an increase in white supremacy and alt-right extremism globally observed since about 2015.

On 26 March 2020, he pleaded guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act, and in August was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole – the first such sentence in New Zealand. He had live-streamed the first shooting on Facebook, and prior to the attack, had published an online manifesto both the video and manifesto were subsequently banned in New Zealand and Australia. He was described in media reports as a white supremacist. The gunman, 28-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant from Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, was arrested after his vehicle was rammed by a police unit as he was driving to a third mosque in Ashburton. 51 people were killed and 40 were injured. The attacks, carried out by a lone gunman who entered both mosques during Friday prayer, began at the Al Noor Mosque in the suburb of Riccarton at 1:40 pm and continued at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 pm. On 15 March 2019, two consecutive mass shootings occurred in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole 223-caliber Mossberg Predator bolt-action rifle 12-gauge Ranger 870 pump-action shotgun.12-gauge Mossberg 930 semi-automatic shotgun.Mass shooting, terrorist attack, shooting spree, mass murder, right-wing terrorism, hate crime

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