
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. Sign up for the newsletter here.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 The president added that enemies who threatened Turkey would be "sent back in coffins" like those who had fought at Gallipoli.Įrdogan's spokesperson later said the comments were taken out of context.Īustralia and New Zealand's top diplomats protested the comments and showing video snippets of the mosque shooting, saying it endangered the lives of their citizens.Įvery day, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. In comments earlier this week at a commemoration of the World War I battle at Gallipoli, Erdogan angered Australia and New Zealand by suggesting their soldiers fought against the Ottoman Empire as part of a Christian holy war against Muslims. Read more: Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses New Zealand attack video at campaign rally New Zealand has moved to remove footage of the massacres and publication of the gunman's manifesto from the internet, warning that anyone who shares it may face prosecution.Įrdogan has repeatedly shown a video of the mosque shooting on the campaign trail, drawing diplomatic rebukes from New Zealand and Australia. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

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