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NZ Media: Celebrating brown success, airbrushing brown atrocities

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Jun 23, 2026
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In the nightmare which unfolded in a quiet Swedish village, a father allegedly pumped bullets into his two young daughters before blowing his own brains out. One girl clings to life in hospital. The other is critically wounded.

New Zealander Maui Koopu severely injured two girls who were reportedly his children, before killing himself, in Alvesta, Sweden.

The perpetrator? A man with the unmistakably Māori name Maui Koopu: a double-barrelled cultural calling card if ever there was o…

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