They came together as one, more than 1,000 students from rival Christchurch schools and different religions, joining voices to honor the 50 lives lost in a massacre that has deeply wounded the cozy New Zealand city.
Participants in a vigil weep as they hold each other for comfort near Al Noor mosque on March 18, 2019, in Christchurch, New Zealand. A mass shooting last week killed at least 50 people in Christchurch.
Most of the students spent hours locked down in their schools on Friday as police tried to determine if any other shooters were involved in the attacks. “I feel like it’s just really important to show everyone that one act of violence doesn’t define a whole city,” she said. “This is one of the best ways to show everyone coming together. Some schools have little funny rivalries, but in times like this we all just come together and that’s all forgotten.”
After the ceremony officially ended, many lingered, standing in circles, arms draped around each other’s shoulders, singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Maori songs. People wandered around with “free hugs” signs, embracing those in need. There were tears, but also smiles. through a “police-verified online mail order process.” The store “detected nothing extraordinary” about the buyer, he said.
In vowing to tighten gun laws, Ardern has said the attacker used five guns, two of them semiautomatic, which were purchased with an ordinary gun license and modified.
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