New Zealand police have arrested a 19-year-old man in an investigation into threats to one of two Christchurch mosques attacked a year earlier by a white Australian supremacist.
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The largest city on the South Island is preparing to commemorate in mid-March the carnage in which 51 Muslim worshipers were killed, and the police have increased patrols around the two places of worship.
The threats against the al-Nour mosque have been published on Telegram messaging. Media have released photos of a man wearing a hood and sitting in a car outside the mosque, with threatening text and an emoji of a gun.
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“ This kind of image has no place in New Zealand. She is obnoxious and will not be tolerated, "said John Price, one of the police officers from Canterbury, the region where Christchurch is located, in a statement. The suspect, whose identity has not been released, was arrested following a police raid in Christchurch.