Photo: Supplied via NZ HeraldMystery surrounds why a teenage member of white nationalist group Action Zealandia refused to hand over his cellphone's passcode when police raided his house after an "abhorrent" threat to Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch. The police raid came after an image showing a masked man sitting in a car outside Masjid Al Noor mosque started circulating on social media in the days before the one-year anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings where 51 Muslims were killed. But when police dialled the number Brittenden gave as being his own, the phone rang. Brittenden eventually gave them the right code but by then police were concerned about being locked out of the device. The court heard that Brittenden, then a law student, had made anti-Muslim slurs the day after the Christchurch mosque shootings.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 06, 2020 23:15 UTC