WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand police have filed a terrorism charge against the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques.
Police say they have charged 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant with engaging in a terrorist act after the March 15 shootings. The charge comes with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and will be a test case for New Zealand’s terrorism laws, which came onto the books in 2002.
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