The Twitter account of the same name was quickly suspended. The Facebook account that posted the video was no longer available shortly after the shooting.
In a lengthy manifesto published online the supposed shooter outlined who he was and why he carried out the massacre at the Christchurch mosque, NZ Herald reported. It costs 4563 a day to house the terrorist in an 'extreme risk unit', but deemed 'necessary' for his safety and the. Inside the mosque, the gunman's footage showed distinctively patterned green carpet that also matched images tagged on Google Maps as being at the same location.ĭistinctive writing on the gunman's weapons seen in the footage also matched images posted on a Twitter account using the same name and cartoon profile picture as the Facebook Live video. Christchurch mosque shooters imprisonment to cost up to 6.6m over four years. This included the entrance of the mosque, which has a number of distinct features such as a fence, postbox and doorway. The 17-minute video ended as the gunman drove away from the scene at speed.Īgence France-Presse confirmed the video was genuine through a digital investigation that included matching screenshots of the mosque taken from the gunman's footage with multiple images available online showing the same areas. He then re-entered the mosque to check for survivors. BBC News 13.7M subscribers Subscribe 3.5K 1.7M views 3 years ago One gunman live-streamed footage of his rampage to Facebook, filmed with a head-mounted camera.