“The government has spoken to FIFA organisers this morning and the tournament will proceed as planned.”
“Clearly with the FIFA World Cup kicking off this evening, there are a lot of eyes on Auckland,” Hipkins said. New Zealand Prime Minster Chris Hipkins said the tournament would go ahead as planned. The violence took place near hotels where Team Norway and other football teams have been staying. Get the latest news from in your inbox.A gunman killed two people at a downtown construction site in New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Thursday, as the nation prepared to host games in the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament.Īuthorities said the attacker was also dead and that six other people, including at least one police officer, were injured during the shooting. Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general from the 16th Century who his army to victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. The names written on his weapons include Luca Traini, an Italian man who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the drive-by shooting of six African migrants in February last year.Īlexandre Bissonnette is serving a life sentence for killing six people and injuring five others in a shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in 2017. The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide.
The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire. Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters
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