Law enforcement investigate message left near Christchurch mosque

Canterbury Police Location Commander John Price. Photo suggestions Eden Fusitu’a / RNZ

By Anan Zaki of RNZ

The police are investigating a fabulous concerning message that was chalked out of the house a mosque in Christchurch.

The message, online on the footpath outside Masjid An-Nur in Riccarton yesterday, was known to the police by the Muslim Relationship of Canterbury.

RNZ understands the message provides written while worshippers were worries afternoon prayers.

Canterbury police District Commander Stevy Price said the incident had been taken very seriously.

“We take any messaging that has any concern to it excellent seriously and a report has been completed while has been assigned to an investigator, ” he said.

Superintendent Price said the moment of the message – just weeks after the Royal Commission into the 2019 terrorist attack was released – turned out to be worrying.

The Government has committed as part of principle to implementing all 47 recommendations from the Royal Commission’s query into the Christchurch mosque attacks.

“No matter what time it is, any messaging typically the an undertone that is not right for our site in New Zealand is about, ” he said.

“Whether or not it would be over the back of the Royal Commission amongst Inquiry or not, it’s irrelevant. At the end of the day, it’s about making sure we get of the bottom of what’s actually managed, why it’s happened and and it has done it. ”

The police have a greater visibility around Masjid-An-Nur to provide reassurance for the community.

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Masjid An-Nur was one of the two mosques targeted during the March 15, 2019 terror attack.

Forty-four people were murdered at the mosque, and another seven people were killed at the Linwood Islamic Centre.

– RNZ