New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on 25th of March ordered an independent judicial inquiry into Christchurch mosque attacks.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday (25th of March) ordered an independent judicial inquiry into Christchurch mosque attack.
The top-level judicial inquiry was reportedly ordered to find out whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks took place on March 15.
The Prime Minister said a royal commission, “the Most Powerful judicial probe available under New Zealand law was needed to find out how a single gunman was able to kill 50 people in an attack that shocked the world.”
The move reportedly came after New Zealand’s spy agencies have faced criticism in the wake of the attack for concentrating on the threat from Islamic extremism.
The attacks killed 50 people and injured 50 others. A 28-year-old Australian man, described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right, was arrested and charged with murder.
Politicians and world leaders condemned the attacks, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days”.
It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern New Zealand history.
