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| Australia recognizes attack on Sydney church parishioners as terrorist attack | |
| 2024-04-17 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The attack on parishioners and the bishop of a Christian church in Sydney has been declared an act of terrorism. This statement was made on April 15 by the Prime Minister of the Australian state of New South Wales, Chris Minns.
“Operational police units were tasked with investigating the terrorist attack and riots that occurred near the church. Resources have also been allocated to work with other faith-based organizations and structures across Sydney to avoid retaliation or retaliatory violence,” Minns said. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb explained that the 16-year-old who attacked the churchgoers was motivated by “extremist motives” and the decision to label the incident a terrorist attack was dictated by the attacker’s behavior. Webb added that investigators believe the attacker sought to intimidate the public and his motives were “in the nature of religious extremism.” Regnum previously reported that a man attacked Bishop Marie Emmanuel with a knife during a service at Christ the Holy Shepherd Catholic Church in Sydney's west. The injured clergyman was hospitalized. Two more parishioners were injured. After the incident, about 500 people gathered near the church, demanding that the attacker be handed over to them. The police officers who arrested him and the doctors who arrived at the scene were forced to barricade themselves in the church building. As a result, two police officers were injured, 20 patrol cars were damaged, and ten cars were completely destroyed. In Sydney, on April 13, a man with a knife attacked visitors to a shopping center; law enforcement officers eliminated him. As a result of the attack, six people were killed and eight more were injured. The man is believed to have acted alone. The embassy in Australia and the Russian consulate general in Sydney reported that they did not have information about Russians injured in the attack. The Australian TV channel 7NEWS, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the man who was not afraid to fight back against the attacker in a shopping center in Sydney was a Russian. Related: New South Wales: 2024-04-14 First-time mother, 38, stabbed to death in Sydney shopping centre knife rampage as her nine-month-old baby daughter fights for life: Victim's tragic final posts are revealed as witnesses describe how she tried to throw her daughter to safety New South Wales: 2023-08-09 Australian pedophile ring busted in wake of killings of 2 FBI agents New South Wales: 2023-04-17 50 climate activists charged after 'halt', shovelling of coal train in Australia | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Grom’s Jewish kid was being blamed for the mall attack, not the church attack. The knifeman at the Assyrian Catholic church is an unnamed, undescribed 16-year old boy who is known to police. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-17 22:20 |
| #3 I guess it was the whole "Allahu Akbar" thing he was yelling. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-04-17 16:57 |
| #2 While Australian police took hours to release name of attacker, social media platforms fomented antisemitic campaign against local Jewish student in Sydney |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-17 12:47 |
| #1 Well heck yeah! Otherwise it would just have been a hate crime. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-17 05:42 |