The Christchurch mosque shootings at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch , New Zealand which killed at least 51 people and injured 50 others were committed by Australia-born far-right terrorist Brenton Harrison Tarrant who was motivated by white nationalism , neo-fascism ( primarily ecofascism ) and racism , Tarrant also published a manifesto titled '' The Great Replacement '' named after a French far-right white genocide conspiracy theory of the same name by writer Renaud Camus and livestreamed the shootings on Facebook Live after announcing them on 8chan / pol / ( a centre of neo-Nazi/far-right discussion ) . Brenton Harrison Tarrant also praised various other far-right mass murderers and killers such as Anders Behring Breivik ( Utoya and Oslo attacks , Norway ) , Dylann Roof ( Charleston church shooting , United States ) , Luca Traini ( 2018 Macerata attack , Italy ) , Anton Lundin Pettersson ( Trollhattan school attack , Sweden ) , Darren Osborne ( 2017 Finsbury Park attack , United Kingdom ) , Alexandre Bissonnette ( Quebec City mosque shooting , Canada/Quebec ) and Josue Estèbanez ( Murder of Carlos Palomino , Spain ) he also referred to Breivik as " Knight Justiciar Breivik " and claimed to have briefly contacted him and his organization the Knights Templar as well as etching the names of Pettersson , Traini and Bissonnette onto his guns which also contained references to various historical battles and figures such as Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours , the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal , the neo-Nazi slogan Fourteen Words and " Kebab Remover " additionally Tarrant expressed support for British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) leader Oswald Mosley and wished to start a Second American Civil War to balkanize the United States over the Gun rights ' issue and the Second Amendment . Prior to the terrorist attacks , Brenton Harrison Tarrant had ties to Australia 's prominent far-right organizations United Patriots Front ( UPF ) led by Blair Cottrell and True Blue Crew ( TBC ) led by Kane Miller via interactions on Facebook and affectionately called Blair Cottrell " Emperor Blair " as well as an offer to join the Lads Society but declined and donated to Gènèration Identitaire ( GI ) and Identitäre Bewegung Österreich ( IBÖ ) the Austria and France branches of Generation Identity an Identitarian organization and exchanged emails with Martin Sellner of the latter group between January 2018 and July 2018 one asking if they could meet up for coffee or beer in Vienna and another where the former sent the latter a link to his English language YouTube channel
Quebec City mosque shooting
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