(ANSA) - WELLINGTON, 13 MAR - New Zealand has a "duty" to support the Muslim community.
This was stated by Jacinda Ardern at the ceremony commemorating the two years since the Christchurch massacre in which 51 people were killed. fear has fallen on the Muslim community ".
Hundreds of people, including relatives of the victims and survivors, attended the memorial which was held under the surveillance of armed police and explosives.
The perpetrator, the white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, was arrested minutes after the attacks on the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Center. He was sentenced to life without parole a year ago, the first time in New Zealand. Last week, police arrested a 27-year-old man in Christchurch on suspicion of threatening cartoonline attacks on the mosque and Muslim center that hit two-year-olds. (HANDLE).