Singapore arrests student who allegedly role-played Christchurch terrorist to kill Muslims in online game


Nick Lee Xing Qiu got a tattoo and T-shirts with custom prints of logos associated with neo-Nazi, white supremacist and far-right groups. - ISD

SINGAPORE: A student who was influenced by far-right extremism started role-playing as a terrorist in an online game, where he pretended "to kill Muslims in a mosque".

The 18-year-old Singaporean, whom the Internal Security Department (ISD) identified as Nick Lee Xing Qiu, had idolised Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019.

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