Found out in which Balkan countries had stayed the terrorist who triggered the attack on New Zealand

Found out in which Balkan countries had stayed the terrorist who triggered the attack on New Zealand

Bulgarian authorities have indicated that they are investigating the motives of staying in Bulgaria in 2018 of the rightist extremist, who has carried out attacks at two mosques in New Zealand. Suspected attacker, 28-year-old Australian Brentn Tarrant, who has carried out two terrorist attacks on two mosques in the town of Christchurch in New Zealand in [...]

The alleged attacker, 28-year-old Australian Brentn Tarrant, who carried out two terrorist attacks in the town of Christchurch in New Zealand, in which 49 people were killed and injured more than 40 others, from November 9th to November 15th in 2018, had stayed in Bulgaria, Bulgarian state prosecutor Sotir Cacarov has said.

“have begun investigations to verify whether his version wanted to discover historical sites and study the history of Balkan countries is true”, the prosecutor has said.

From what Bulgarian Interior Affairs Minister Mladen Marinov conveys, he has added that the aim of the investigations is to clarify his position motives and possible contacts with other people.

According to the initial results of the investigation, there is no record of terrorist activities or of contacts with suspicious persons in Bulgaria”, the prosecutor has said.

Investigators already have precise information on the flow of his stay in Bulgaria - he had arrived in Sofia from Dubai on November 9th, rented a car on November 10th and visited historic sites in ten Bulgarian countries.

From Bulgaria he left on 15 November by plane to Bucharest, there he rented a car and had gone to Hungary, the prosecutor said, broadcasting Koha.net.

This was not the first time Australians had stayed in Southeast Europe.

According to the same sources, the one in the Balkans had stayed from December 28th to December 30th 2016, when by bus it traveled through Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bulgarian officials have stressed that for these investigations they are in contact with authorities in the US, New Zealand, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia-Montenegro, follows Serbian portal.

The prime suspect in the terrorist attacks in New Zealand, in which they killed 49 people performing mosque religious rituals, had published a scripture in which the motive for murder had been “justified with his fight against immigration, which had said he was flooding the culture of white European peoples.

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