While awaiting the conclusion of both the inquiry and Tarrant's own trial, this article seeks to draw together some of the major threads of what is known so far. "I don't know how far they'd got," he stated. It is not mentioned in any of New Zealand's Security and Intelligence Agency annual reports from 2001 onward, and Little conceded that the Agency had only begun conducting a "base line review" of extreme-right activity in mid-2018. Asked if he had confidence in New Zealand's intelligence apparatus, Andrew Little, the government minister in charge of the intelligence agencies, stated that "until there's a very microscopic look at what the agencies have been doing, and whether they've missed anything, I can't say for certain." Monitoring extreme-right activity does not appear to have been a priority, however. Potential intelligence failures are likely to be a key focus of the inquiry.
Its remit is to investigate the perpetrator, the accessibility of semi-automatic weapons, his use of social media and international connections, and any missed opportunities by the intelligence and security services to prevent the massacre. (4) In the interim, the New Zealand government has launched a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks, headed by Sitting Supreme Court Justice Sir William Young, which will report on December 10, 2019.
Tarrant's trial, currently estimated to take six weeks, is scheduled to begin on May 4, 2020. Thus, despite the attack being livestreamed on Facebook, the following details are considered allegations based on press reports, which, at the time of writing in June 2019, are yet to be proven in court. On June 13, 2019, Tarrant, who is currently facing 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder, and one charge of engaging in a terrorist act, pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to the Christchurch mosque shootings. (2) New Zealand, which until this point had experienced terrorism as a "latent" threat rather than a "lived reality," (3) suffered the single largest loss of life to terrorism in its history. Two more subsequently died of their wounds, bringing the death toll to 51. In the space of 36 minutes, Tarrant allegedly killed 49 people. Exiting the mosque, he allegedly shot another person on the pavement before driving the short distance to Linwood mosque where he allegedly continued his killing spree.
On March 15, 2019, at approximately 1:40 PM local time, Brenton Tarrant, a 2 8-year-old Australian gym trainer with no previous criminal history (1) who was active on extreme-right internet forums, entered the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he allegedly shot dead 42 people.
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