Extremist’s perverse reasons for slaughter
A MURDERED Swedish deaf girl, a car tour across Western Europe and the election of French President Emmanuel Macron have been cited by as Brenton Tarrant’s motivation for his “revenge” massacre in Christchurch.
Critically, he said his target was not to be in New Zealand where he went to prepare for a slaughter but decided three months ago it was as representative of the West as any other city in Australia or elsewhere.
But hours before his horrific action 28-year-old Tarrant took to social media to appeal in a short message to others to watch his live stream of his carrying out an “attack against the invaders”.
“If I dont survive the attack, goodbye, godbless and I will see you all in Valhalla,” he wrote before providing a link to his writings.
In one 73-page document he posted before what he described as his “racist” “antiimmigration” rampage, Tarrant raves about birthrates and migration and what he saw as “white genocide” with the decline of fertility rates of Europeans.
He states he was born in Australia to a working-class family, his parents of English, Scottish and Irish stock and after school, which he did not enjoy, he took odd jobs but made enough money from ecurrency investment to fund a trip to Western Europe.
It was this one-month long trip in April-May 2017 to Spain, Portugal and France that he cites as raising his anger to the point he felt he had to do something about it.
He described himself as a “nationalist” right winger who carried out his acts in his own name with no direct influencers but it was that holiday that changed his views.
“I am just a regular White man from a regular family,” he wrote, adding that he sought no fame and was a private and “mostly” introverted person.
During this time there was a terror attack in Stockholm – an Uzbek asylum seeker hijacked a truck and drove it into crowds on a shopping trip killing five people including 11year-old Ebba Akerland, who was walking home from school when she was struck and killed.
“Young, innocent and dead Ebba,” Tarrant wrote.
“Ebba death at the hands of the invaders, the indignity of her violent demise and my inability to stop it broke through my own jaded cynicism like a sledgehammer. I could no longer ignore the attacks.”
He said the second event behind his actions was the French general election where he was in despair at the election of Macron who he described as a “globalist, antiwhite ex-banker”.
He added that while driving through the French towns and cities he saw first-hand immigration whom he described as “invaders”, outnumbering other locals.
At a World War I cemetery in front of hundreds of crosses he concluded: “It was there I decided to do something, it was there I decided to take action, to commit to force, to commit to violence to take the fight to the invaders myself.”
He claimed before he went on his spree he had contacted “the reborn Knights Templar” for a blessing. He wrote he did not do it for fame, that he represents no political or social group and he did not act for two years so as he could train and prepare, and settle his affairs.
He said it was nothing against foreigners necessarily as he had travelled widely and was greeted by warmth from various nations but he saw them in the West as invaders.
His writings also aimed to incite and included attacks on people such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
IT WAS THERE I DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ... TO COMMIT TO VIOLENCE TO TAKE THE FIGHT TO THE INVADERS MYSELF
BRENTON TARRANT