He said that key points in his radicalisation were the defeat of the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in 2017 elections, and the death of 11-year-old Ebba Åkerlund in the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.Īustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday confirmed the attacker at the Masjid al Noor mosque was an Australian. The manifesto said the gunman identified himself as an Australia-born, 28-year-old white male from a low-income, working-class family. The title of the document has the same name as a conspiracy theory originating in France that believes European populations are being displaced in their homelands by immigrant groups with higher birth rates.
Entitled “The Great Replacement”, the 74-page document said the gunman had wanted to attack Muslims.
