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Brenton Tarrant
YouTuber Information
Profile	Brenton Tarrant
Style	Alt-right Commentary
Date joined	March 1, 2017
Twitter / X	@BrentonTarrant
Videos	14
Status	Inactive (Terminated)
Username	Brenton Tarrant
Personal information
Full name	Brenton Harrison Tarrant
Nationality	New Zealand
Location	New Zealand

“	15th March is go do rain or shine.	”
―Brenton Tarrant

“	I hope one day you meet the rope.	”
―Brenton Tarrant

Brenton Harrison Tarrant (born: October 27, 1990 (1990-10-27)), formerly known as E- Sport, is the YouTube channel of an alt-right extremist who allegedly uploaded videos on YouTube promoting racist views. He also livestreamed himself committing the Christchurch mosque shootings, which killed 51 people and injured 89 others(40 by Gunfire).

YouTube Career

Brenton Tarrant first joined YouTube in March 1st, 2017. His username on YouTube was formerly called E-Sport, and the channel has a profile picture of what it appears to be art out of Bart from The Simpsons. It's unknown when his channel was terminated, as nearly all the news sources that talk about him and his shooting never talked about when he got terminated. As seen in the Wayback Machine, while Brenton Tarrant has beliefs in Far-Right Extremism, Anti Immigration, Ecofascism, White Supremacy, White Nationalism, and of the white genocide and Great Replacement conspiracy theory, the content never showed on the channel, meaning it's unclear if he ever had used the channel to promote such views.

Personal Life

He is known to be a White Australian man who grew up in Grafton, New South Wales, where he attended his High School.

At the age of 12, he started showing signs of racism by expressing his concerns about immigration. His first act of racism was making derogatory comments about his mother's former partner's Aboriginal heritage. This led to a teacher from the Anti-Racism Contact Officer to intervene and address the instances of his anti-Aboriginal and anti-Semitic behavior.

He was unemployed, and he funded his expenses and preparations for the terrorist attack using the money he received from his father and income from investments, including a rental property he and his sister had purchased in January 2017. When asked, he gave no concrete indication of his plans once his funds were depleted, beyond mentioning to his sister the possibility of suicide and later telling family members and gaming friends that he intended to move to Ukraine. 5 months after his shooting, he stated he will exhaust his funds by approximately August 2019. A document made by him 2 months before the attack, had 15th March is go do rain or shine written in it.

Death of his father, Rodney Tarrant

In 2010, his father Rodney was found dead by suicide as previously agreed. He inherited the A$457,000 from his father, mostly from the settlement of a claim for damages due to asbestos exposures that caused his father's mesothelioma. He later then used this money to invest, travel and retire from working out at Big River Gym in 2012.

Travels

After 2012, he went to several countries alone, except for a trip to North Korea. In March 2013, he went to New Zealand for a holiday, where he stayed with a gaming friend for 3 days. The gaming friend and his parents were avid firearm users. They took Tarrant to a shooting club where he had his first experience with firearms. Security officials suspected that he had come into contact with far-right organizations in 2017, while visiting European nations. . He donated €1,500 to Identitäre Bewegung Österreich (IBÖ), the Austrian branch of Generation Identity/Identitarian movement in Europe and interacted with IBÖ leader Martin Sellner via email between January 2018 and July 2018, offering to meet in Vienna and a link to his YouTube channel. During the planning stages of his attack, he made a donation of $106.68 to Rebel Media, a site that featured both Sellner and several articles espousing "white genocide" and "Great Replacement" conspiracy theories.

Moving to New Zealand

He moved to New Zealand in 2017, settling in the city of Dunedin. According to a neighbor, he was a sociable individual who preferred his own company. . Additionally, he was a member of a South Otago gun club, where he honed his shooting skills at its range.

Europe

Captivated by the historic battlegrounds between Christian European nations and the Ottoman Empire, Tarrant made several visits to the Balkans from 2016-2018. During this time, he visited Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, confirming his presence there at that time, as well as posting nationalist content related to these countries. He also called for the United States to be weakened to prevent what he perceived as NATO intervention in support of Albanians against Serbians, as he believed that the Serbian military were "Christian Europeans attempting to remove these Islamic occupiers from Europe". In June 2016, his relatives noted a change in his personality, which he attributed to a mugging incident in Ethiopia. Concerns about his mental health were also expressed by his mother.

Tarrant's Shooting

In 2019, Two consecutive mass shootings were conducted at the Al-Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, killing 51 people and injuring 89 others (40 by gunfire). The shooting was found to have been on Facebook, marking the first successfully live-streamed far-right terror attack, and had published a manifesto online before the attack.

The attack was caused by Tarrant's white nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and white supremacist beliefs. He described himself as an EcoFacist, and voiced support for the far-right "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory in the context of a "white genocide", cited Anders Behring Breivik and Dylann Roof as well as several other right-wing terrorists as inspirations within his manifesto, praising Breivik above all