Brenton Tarrant, New Zealand mosque terrorist, donated a considerable amount of money to Austria’s far-right Identitarian Movement, which espouses dark anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideology
In this picture taken Nov.5, 2016 Martin Sellner, leader of the right-wing populist Identitarian movement of Austria is seen giving an interview in Berlin, Germany.
Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian Chancellor, wrote on his Twitter account on Tuesday: “Any connection between the Christchurch attacker and members of the Identitarians in Austria needs to be comprehensively and ruthlessly investigated.” According to Tarrant’s travel itinerary records, he has visited Austria among other places such as France, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Pakistan and North Korea between 2011 and 2019. But concrete evidence on the people he had liaised with on his travels hasn't yet been made public.and condemned the Christchurch attacks, the latter’s manifesto reveals an ideological connection between the two.
Tarrant has openly subscribed to the ideas of Renaud Camus, a French writer, who is one of the godfathers of the Identitarian Movement, even somewhat promoting his controversial bookTarrant’s manifesto carries the same title as the Camus’s book and the movement’s leading website,has been filled with references to the same concept, deliberately aiming to exploit the fears of white people in the face of immigration.
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