Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.On Monday night, NSW Multiculturalism Minister Steve Kamper was at home with his wife Magda preparing a meal for their friend, Premier Chris Minns, who’d been through a torrid 48 hours after the horrific stabbings at Westfield Bondi Junction last Saturday afternoon.
Sixteen Islamic organisations followed suit, condemning what they called the “heinous” attack on the stricken cleric, Mar Mari Emmanuel,who has a massive online following and an outsized profile among Sydney’s Assyrian Christian community. Emmanuel had been in the middle of a live-streamed sermon when a 16-year-old boy walked casually towards him before pulling out a knife and raining blows on the cleric’s head.An outraged mob swiftly gathered outside the church, arming themselves with makeshift projectiles and chanting “bring him out” as terrified paramedics sheltered inside. The ensuing battle left 50 officers injured and scores of police vehicles damaged.
Nevertheless, police have deployed extra resources to guard mosques and places of worship over the weekend, attempting to counter continuing rumours of payback that have been travelling like poison through channels such as Whatsapp. Unsuccessful in forming relationships, he was seemingly in the grip of psychosis when he slaughtered six people He appearedHowever, police say there was no evidence he was acting from any ideological, religious or political motive, though they say they may never discover what triggered the attack.Monday’s perpetrator told the parishioners pinning him to the floor immediately after the attack that he had targeted the bishop for disrespect towards “my prophet”.
The attacker was charged with a terrorism offence under Commonwealth law on Thursday. On Friday, Parramatta Children’s Court held a bedside hearing at an undisclosed medical facility where he was being held. He had, Webb told a media conference, travelledIt is the first formally declared terrorist attack in Sydney since an incident at Minto 2016, when 22-year-old, stabbed a neighbour in a bid to become a “martyr” protesting Western military intervention in Iraq.
Mental health elements were raised in both cases, though as international security consultant Neil Fergus says, the line between a terrorist action and the actions of a psychologically disturbed individual is not always a clean one. .
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