Using a pseudonym, the shooter made a number of posts in its private groups between September 2017 and April 2018.
Guardian Australia has previously revealed Sewell’s ambitions to attract members from mainstream society to the Lads Society under the guise of a men’s fitness club, while secretly harbouring an explicitly white supremacist agenda.įollowing the shooting in Christchurch, Sewell told the Sydney Morning Herald he had previously approached the shooter to join the Lads Society but that he had turned him down.īut the commission’s report reveals the shooter was “an active member” of two Facebook pages run by the Lads Society. The commission’s report also details his involvement with the Lads Society, another far-right neo-Nazi group founded in 2017 by one of Cottrell’s deputies in the UPF, New-Zealand born Tom Sewell. The shooter moved to the New Zealand town of Dunedin in August 2017 after a long period spent travelling the globe using money inherited from his father following his death. The ABC has previously revealed details of some of those comments, but the report also showed the shooter expressed support for Cottrell in other groups, including on the Facebook page of another far-right group in Australia, the True Blue Crew.Ĭottrell has previously said he never met Tarrant and recently described him as “an idiot”. In 2016, when Donald Trump was elected US president, the shooter wrote on the group’s Facebook page that “globalists and Marxists on suicide watch, patriots and nationalists triumphant – looking forward to Emperor Blair Cottrell coming soon”. The commission found that two years before the Christchurch massacre, the shooter posted “approximately 30 comments” on the UPF’s Facebook page, expressing his support and admiration for Cottrell in several of them.
0 kommentar(er)
