New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says a royal commission into the Christchurch shootings will focus on the events leading up to the attack, not the police response to it.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a royal commission into the events leading up to the deadly Christchurch terror attack that killed 50 people earlier this month.Ms Ardern said the commission would look at"the events leading up to the attack, rather than the response".
"New Zealand is not a surveillance state. But questions need to be answered around whether or not this was the activity of an individual that we could or should have known about. Jacinda Ardern is yet to put a foot wrong, but the path ahead is long as she holds her wounded nation together.
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