A trip to Europe did something by Brenton Tarrant, tells the grandmother, who has just given his first interview since the tragedy.
It was only when he went abroad, that in my opinion, he changed totally, ” says the 81-year-old grandmother, Marie Fitzgerald to the australian media 9News.
Brenton Tarrant lost his father to cancer in 2010, and to process the grief he took from home in Grafton in Australia to Europe – when the terror was at its highest.
the Grandmother describes the young Tarrant as a ‘normal’ and ‘happy’ boy. In high school he had a special interest.
He spent most of his time on computer games. I do not believe that it to find a girlfriend was on the agenda. He said that it was too difficult to be married, says the grandmother.
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A then 19-year-old Brenton Tarrant went to Europe and changed, believes the grandmother. Photo credit: Shutterstock
Investigators believe that the Tarrant allegedly prepared the massacre for two years.
Something that seems incomprehensible to the grandmother, since Tarrant last year celebrated his sister’s birthday along with the rest of the family. Here was, according to the grandmother no illuminated warning lights.
– He was just his normal self. We talked and ate a meal together, to celebrate the occasion, and now are all broken, she says.
for fear Of reprisals live Tarrants mother and sister today in a maximum security house with døgnbeskyttelse – a completely different life for the now broken family.
– We are all reticent. We know not what we should think, ” says the grandmother.
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Brenton Tarrant is the prime suspect in the attacks, which until now has cost 50 lives. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
the Family heard the first time Brenton Tarrants name will be mentioned on television in connection with the coverage of the bestial attack.
– at First I thought that it could not be true. Then I saw the picture of him. What he has done, is just not true, says the uncle Terry Fitzgerald.
– We will say sorry to all the families over there – for the dead and the injured. We can’t think of anything else. We will just save us, ” he concludes.