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Alleged New Zealand gunman sends 'call to action' letter from jail cell
Alleged New Zealand gunman sends 'call to action' letter from jail cell
New York Daily News
Blake Alsup
Aug 15th 2019 10:22AM
The man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques was allowed to send a handwritten “call to action” letter from his jail cell — and it ended up online.
Brenton Tarrant sent a six-page letter to a person named “Alan” in Russia. The letter was posted on 4chan, a website notorious for posts from white supremacists, and comes after the El Paso, Texas, shooter cited Tarrant as an inspiration.
Much of the letter discusses a one-month trip Tarrant said he took to Russia in 2015, but also warns of a “great conflict” and uses language that could be interpreted as a call to arms.
New Zealand Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis said in a statement that he believes the prison system shouldn’t have allowed Tarrant to send the letter.
“I have made myself clear that this cannot happen again,” Davis said.
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