lived since twenty seventeen that's when he moved from australia to new zealand apparently choosing to target this small country with its multicultural society he lived here in a small apartment attracting little attention and with little outside contact police raided his home shortly after the attack fearing that he might have set booby traps they used a special robot to enter the house at this point the suspect was attending his first court hearing he refused to say anything about his motives but a manifesto written by him further reveals the depth of his hatred for muslims whom here cuse is of wanting to displace the white race. extremism research poll spoon lee isn't surprised that the gunman wasn't on any security watch list even though the australian hadn't made any secret about his far right views online he says there is a hardcore of two hundred to two hundred fifty far right extremists in new zealand