Survivors, Grieving Families Reject NZ Mosque Shooter’s ‘White Supremacist’ World View

Survivors, Grieving Families Reject NZ Mosque Shooter’s ‘White Supremacist’ World View
Victim impact statements are given during the sentencing of mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant at the High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Aug. 26, 2020. John Kirk-Anderson/Pool via Reuters
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WELLINGTON—The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited him in the next life and it would be more severe than prison.

“You have killed my son and to me, it is as if you have killed the whole of New Zealand,” Aden Ibrahim Diriye said in a statement read by a family member during a sentencing hearing for Brenton Tarrant on Wednesday.