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INTERESTING FACTS ON Brenton Tarrant wiki, bio, age, height, how is Brenton Tarrant related to Ebba Akerlund and the cause of Christchurch mosque shooting!

Ebba Akerlund was one of the five victims who was killed in the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.

The scene occurred on April 7 in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. News sources reported that a hijacked lorry “deliberately drove into crowds” in Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before crashing in the corner of Åhléns department store. Apart from the dead, 14 people were seriously injured.

Swedish police called it “an act of terrorism” and sentenced the convict Rakhmat Akilov for life in prison on June 7, 2018.

But that’s not where it ends! Last Friday, a man named Brenton Tarrant from Australia opened fire at two mosques in the New Zealand city. The Christchurch mosque shooting killed 40 people who were gathered for Friday prayers.

Addressing the Christchurch mosque shooting, journalist Matthew Keys wrote in Tweeter,

Recently, that gunman Brenton Tarrant live-streamed an online video where he explained the reason for his attack.

Among his legions of motives, he mentioned one of his intentions was to get revenge on the death of Ebba Akerlund, the child who was killed in 2017
Stockholm terrorist attack.

Who is Ebba Akerlund? How old was she at the time of her death?

Let’s take a look at the personal details of Ebba Akerlund, the girl who is allegedly one of the reasons for Christchurch mosque

shooting.

As we get started with the details of Brenton Tarrant, sit tight to see Ebba Akerlund wiki, bio, age and cause of death.

Who is Brenton Tarrant?

The Christchurch mosque shooting’ gunman identifies himself as Brenton Tarrant. On the online manifesto, he narrated his childhood as
regular” and “without any great issues”.

Tarrant also mentioned he didn’t go to university and “barely achieved a passing grade” in high-school and middle school. His reported age is 28 years.

The Australian native made some money out of investments in ‘Bitconnect’-
an open-source cryptocurrency. Brenton Tarrant admits he has no remorse for the Christchurch mosque shooting. Instead, he wishes to kill more; the 28-year-old said,

“I only wish I could have killed more invaders, and more traitors as well. There was a racial component to the attack and it’s an attack in the name of diversity and anti-immigration.”

Who is Ebba Akerlund?

Ebba Akerlund was born on June 7, 2005 in Sweden. At the time of death, her age was only 11 years old.

She was walking home from school after getting off from the bus. When Ebba didn’t return home till late, her parents launched a desperate social media appeal only to discover that she was killed in the horrifying attack.

Ebba Akerlund’s family issued a statement on Saturday, the day after the incident, writing,

“With all our heart we thank the Swedish people for all the warmth and love you have given us in a time of despair and pain.”

They went on to ask for understanding and let them “peace and quiet” to process their grief. However, the recent Christchurch mosque shooting and its association with their daughter’s death isn’t something they invocated.

Brenton Tarrant repeatedly took out the ‘2017 terror attack in Stockholm’ and indicated the cause of her death as his inspiration of Christchurch mosque shooting.

“Ebba (sic) death at the hands of the invaders, the indignity of her violent demise and my inability to stop it broke through my own jaded cynicism like a sledgehammer. I could no longer ignore the attacks.”

The man who killed Ebba Akerlund was a rejected asylum seeker. He was born in the Soviet Union but, he was a citizen of Uzbekistan. The day before the attack, he admitted an allegiance to Islamic State (IS), a terrorist group, in a self-recorded video.

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