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The audio track records him analysing his performance and the performance of his weaponry during the attack, before the video cuts out. The attacker then drives away from the crime scene, stopping to fire a shotgun through the windscreen, and also at pedestrians through the front passenger window.

Injuries and deaths are clearly depicted. The video depicts the shooting of many people, including men, women and at least one young person. He travels to his destination while listening to music in his car.

The video features footage of the mass murder of worshippers in a New Zealand mosque viewed in a ‘first person’ perspective via a camera apparently fixed to the attacker’s helmet.Ī man is shown in a car with a large cache of weapons. For the full legal decision, please see the linked file at the end of this document.Ĭhristchurch Mosque Attack Livestream is a video of a terrorist attack in Christchurch. Please be advised some of the content discussed could be distressing for the reader. Sky New Zealand pulled Sky News Australia off its network on Saturday because the latter was broadcasting video clips from the shooter’s Facebook livestream.The following is an abridged version of our classification decision on the Christchurch Mosque Attack Livestream. The distressing footage of the Christchurch shootings were not only disseminated on social media.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she wants to discuss the issue of live streaming with Facebook. “So social media companies – which have played a role in this, albeit not through their intent – have something to answer for and need to act further to prevent this.” “That spread far, and then the video spread far and wide, and may never be successfully taken down,” Roose continued. “The perpetrator was highly reliant on social media – not only for inspiration – but also in the way that he’s used a GoPro cam to livestream the attack and, immediately prior to the attack, sent out his manifesto and stored it in a number of areas so that it couldn’t be quickly taken down,” said Dr Joshua Roose, a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, in an interview with FRANCE 24. Images of the attack were also shared on WhatsApp and Instagram, two services owned by Facebook, as well as on Twitter and YouTube.