'Financial link in NZ attacker and far-right group'
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Wednesday said there was a financial link between the suspect accused of killing 50 people in mass shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the far-right Identitarian Movement in Austria.
Hansjoerg Bacher, spokesman for prosecutors in Graz, said Martin Sellner, head of the Identitarian Movement - which says it wants to preserve Europe's identity - received 1,500 euros (S$2,280) in early 2018 from a donor with the same name as the man charged with murder following the Christchurch attack.
"We can now confirm that there was financial support and so a link between the New Zealand attacker and the Identitarian Movement in Austria," Kurz said. Sellner published a video on YouTube in which he said he had received a donation from the man and that police had raided his house over the possible links to the Christchurch attacker.
