Police have not confirmed that Tarrant is one of the people in custody over the shooting.
He claims he had brief contact with the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, who gave his blessing to the attack. Tarrant, believed to be from the New South Wales city of Grafton, espouses far-right and anti-immigrant ideology in the document. The name Charles Martel, who is hailed by white supremacists for defeating an invading Muslim force at the Battle of Tours in 732, was also displayed on weapons used in the attack.Ī 74-page “manifesto” Tarrant posted online lists various neofascist aims, including the creation of an atmosphere of fear among Muslims. Two of the rifles used in the shooting referenced Ebba Akerlund, an 11-year-old girl killed in April 2017 when an Uzbek man, Rakhmat Akilov, rammed his truck into people in Stockholm.
