SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019How Christchurch shooter
inspired copycat terrorists
Around the world online extremists are calling for fresh massacres after
attacks in Poway, El Paso and Norway
Revered as a saint by some extremists, Brenton Tarrant posted a 17,000-word manifesto online before carrying out the New Zealand
attacks (AFP/Getty)
LIZZIE DEARDEN
SECURITY CORRESPONDENT
“Brenton Tarrant was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed
to be done.”
Those were the words written by John Timothy Earnest shortly before he stormed a synagogue in Poway,