the tower of The Masjid-Just-a-mosque. on Saturday night, only illuminated by the alternating red and blue light from the Roof lights of a police car is behind a Barrier
Previously, the residents of Christchurch have erected a makeshift memorial of flowers, stuffed animals and greeting messages provided with the cardboard signs. In a semi-circle, the proportion of stand around take this eerie backdrop to one of the two places, of which 31 hours before a cruel attack on the Muslim community in new Zealand has been committed.
Who reported the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, writes of course, and to violate law, the elusive stories of the 50 Murdered and another 50. But there are also the stories of those who have prevented through their courageous work worse, and the return of a grieving city, the hope for the Good in people.
“All tried to come out.
One of the heroes of Christchurch” is Mirwais, an Afghan Muslim, lives since 2002 in new Zealand. He visited with a group of friends from the Afghan community, the Friday mosque prayer. Two of them are dead, three are wounded.
Mirwais told, in spite of the circumstances, with a firm voice: “Shortly after we had begun to pray, I heard the first blast. I see the shooter as he entered the entrance hall, and am immediately with many of the other in the direction of an Emergency exit on the North side of the mosque running. All tried to come out, so groups were formed – he shot first, in which I was, and met the people in front of me, most of them were immediately dead. Then he turned to the other group and fired on them. Therefore, I was able to race out of the building and hide.”
The man on Mirwais and his congregation shot, was the alleged Terrorist Brenton T. (28), an Australian with a resident on the South island of new Zealand. A few minutes before he fired the first shot, had T. sent a right-wing extremist Manifesto on various email addresses, including the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. In addition, he had uploaded the Manifest in an online forum. He was wearing a helmet camera, a live stream is started and his gun was used in the mosque to enter.
“When I realized that someone is trying to kill us, I threw myself at the boy who was sitting next to me, and engulfed him with my body.”
Because the shooter returned after a few minutes to his car to get probably a different weapon, could Mirwais run out of his hiding place. He climbed over a fence on the neighboring property, where he remained for a few minutes, but because he heard again the shots behind, he escaped and finally came into the house of a neighbor, in the also another victim fled the scene: “I saw an older man with a gunshot wound in the hip, next to him, his son, and wept. I called out to the occupants of the house, he should bring me a towel to stop the bleeding.”
Mirwais wrapped present in spirit in the towel to the man and he instructed his son, he should press firmly on the wound. In his panic, ran Mirwais then covered in blood again, “I wanted to say home to my wife and to her that it’s good for me”.
“So we did it together
survived” While Mirwais had already fled from the neighborhood of the mosque, rose Brenton T. in his car and drove a few minutes through Christchurch to the second, smaller mosque in the town of Linwood Avenue, prayed to, where this time, the 25-year-old Mohamed with a small group of Muslims.
“To 13.40 we began prayer with the Friday, but after we had finished the first prayer, we heard shots,” says Mohamed on Saturday evening, he did not want to mention, as Mirwais, his last name in Public. “When I realized that someone is trying to kill us, I threw myself at the boy who was sitting next to me, and engulfed him with my body.”
The Boy, Mohamed buried – as a twelve-year-old member of the Muslim community of Christchurch turned out, began to shout, he called out to his father, who had come with him in the mosque. “I pushed him, my Hand on the mouth, because I was sure that the assassin on the objectives, the screaming. So we have survived it together,” says Mohamed.
again he paused between sentences, his words are choppy. He does not speak, as he would feel himself as a Hero, while he remembers the probably the worst moments of his life.
“I took a Shotgun”
this time, Brenton T. leaves the mosque, to get out of his car another weapon. However, Abdul Aziz is waiting for him, another Hero of the assassination. Aziz had not prayed as Mohamed in the main room, the assassin had First entered.
“I had seen how he went in the mosque, and I ran outside, where his car was found with the weapons on the passenger seat. I grabbed a Shotgun, which, however, had no more bullets, then he came out of the building, saw me with the gun in Hand, ran frantically past me and cursed me. I tried to stop him with the gun and ran against his car, but he was able to drive it.”
Abdul Aziz tried to stop the killer. Photo: Keystone
Aziz Would not have acted so brave, would have probably died even more people. The same is true for two police officers rammed the suspect’s car from the street and the gunman is in custody. Aziz says in an interview that he had acted thus, how each should act. He was traumatized, but he wanted to tell his story to inspire others.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 17.03.2019, at 19:29
