New Zealand mosque shootings: Who is Ebba Akerlund? Story of 11-yr-old girl mentioned in shooter's manifesto revealed
The attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a gunman believed to be 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant has left as many 49 dead. In a 73-page, 16,500-word manifesto that he uploaded on social media, Tarrant detailed his background, as well as his reasons for carrying out the shooting, including taking the name of a young victim of the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.
Tarrant wrote the attack was to "take revenge for Ebba Åkerlund". "There was a period of time two years prior to the attack that dramatically changed my views. The period of time was from April 2017 to May 2017. The first event that begun the change was the terror attack in Stockholm on 7 April, 2017. I could no longer turn my back on the violence. Something this time was different. That difference was Ebba Akerlund... Ebba was walking to meet her mother after school when she was murdered by an Islamic attacker," he wrote.