The right-wing assassin of Christchurch wrote a letter to a supporter in Russia from pre-trial detention, later the letter surfaced on the Internet.The head of New Zealand’s prison service apologized today for this breakdown. The letter has caused new distress to the survivors and survivors of the attack on two mosques, Christine Stevenson said.
Letters from imprisonment allowed
Australian Brenton Tarrant is accused of killing 51 people at the Al-Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch on March 15. The 28-year-old is in custody in a high-security prison in Auckland. The New Zealand government actually wanted to ensure that the assassin receives no public forum for his hate ideology. Prison officials now revealed that Tarrant was allowed to write letters in prison.
A letter addressed to a Russian later appeared on 4chan’s website. The six-page letter, written by hand and in block letters, includes an Australian trip to Russia in 2015 and his admiration for the British fascist Oswald Mosley.
Correctional Secretary Kelvin Davis confirmed that Tarrant had sent a total of nine letters from prison: two to his mother and seven to „allies“, two of whom the prison authorities had stopped.
