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‘It is like putting salt on the cut again’

For Muslim families, especially those who have lost loved ones, this year will be difficult. Already, two weeks before the anniversary service, a threat on an encrypted chat app accompanied by a photograph of a masked man in a car outside the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch was posted anonymously to more than 2000 followers.

On Wednesday, Canterbury police searched a Christchurch address in relation to the threat and a 19-year-old man was charged on an unrelated matter. Canterbury district commander Superintendent John Price said the sharing of the image was causing significant distress and anxiety within the community. “This type of imagery has no place in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is

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