Gijzeling in Sydney #4

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 01:58 schreef star_gazer het volgende:
Ondertussen gaat Sydney gewoon verder. Zoals het hoort, niet bij de pakken neerzitten, maar doorgaan met het dagelijks leven. Het gebied rondom het cafe zal ivm onderzoek wel voor een tijdje afgesloten zijn (zonde, staat mooie kerstversiering!), maar de trein zat vanochtend gewoon weer vol.

Prachtige stad, ik kan het iedereen aanraden

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 02:08 schreef Skillstorm het volgende:

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Sydney is hooggeleid

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The cafe manager killed in the dramatic final moments of a siege in Sydney was shot while trying to grab the gunman's weapon, sources say.

Tori Johnson, 34, and Sydney lawyer Katrina Dawson, 38, died following the 16-hour siege at the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney's Martin Place in the early hours of Tuesday.

Police stormed the building after explosions and yelling were heard about 2:10am (AEDT).

Multiple sources have told the ABC that Mr Johnson tried to grab the gunman's weapon when he appeared to be falling asleep.

Authorities would not confirm whether he and Ms Dawson were shot by the gunman or killed in crossfire.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 01:58 schreef star_gazer het volgende:
Ondertussen gaat Sydney gewoon verder. Zoals het hoort, niet bij de pakken neerzitten, maar doorgaan met het dagelijks leven. Het gebied rondom het cafe zal ivm onderzoek wel voor een tijdje afgesloten zijn (zonde, staat mooie kerstversiering!), maar de trein zat vanochtend gewoon weer vol.

Prachtige stad, ik kan het iedereen aanraden

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 10:00 schreef kalinhos het volgende:

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Ik vind 't ook een fantastische stad, maar je verhaal gaat voor ongeveer elk Westers land op. In NL zaten de treinen ook gewoon vol op 18 juli.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 23:35 schreef trucker3 het volgende:

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Dat mag je niet zeggen want dan ben je een islamofoob en moslimhater.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 20:33 schreef Nielsch het volgende:
Deze is weer eens toepasselijk:

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 00:57 schreef star_gazer het volgende:
Wat is nou een gijzelaar, is dat degene die gijzelt of degene die gegijzeld is? Vind het zo'n vreemd woord.

Herman Finkers | Goochelen met taal

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 09:42 schreef ioko het volgende:

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Het lijkt erop dat de manager probeerde de gijzelnemer te overmeesteren en dat het toen misging.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 10:22 schreef Loekie1 het volgende:

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Heel jammer dat dit mislukt is. Het was geen doorgewinterde terrorist dus de kans om hem te overmeesteren was er.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 15:38 schreef superniger het volgende:
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RIP
Afgemaakt door een religie gekkie moslim fanaticus.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 15:38 schreef superniger het volgende:
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RIP
Afgemaakt door een religie gekkie.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 10:00 schreef kalinhos het volgende:

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Ik vind 't ook een fantastische stad, maar je verhaal gaat voor ongeveer elk Westers land op. In NL zaten de treinen ook gewoon vol op 18 juli.

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Gijzelnemer Sydney had wapenvergunning

Man Haron Monis, de 49-jarige Iranier die in een koffiehuis in Sydney urenlang een onbekend aantal mensen gijzelde, blijkt in bezit te zijn geweest van een wapenvergunning.

De Australische premier Tony Abbott pleit voor aanscherping van de wapenwetgeving in zijn land. De premier eist opheldering over het wapenbezit van de gijzelnemer. "Als iemand met zo'n crimineel verleden aan een wapenvergunning kan komen, roept dat veel vragen op."
Monis, die maandag uiteindelijk door een agent werd doodgeschoten, had een lang strafblad. Zo werd hij verdacht van betrokkenheid bij de moord op zijn ex-vrouw en werd hij eerder beschuldigd van aanranding. Monis was op borgtocht vrij.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)penvergunning__.html

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Op woensdag 17 december 2014 09:15 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 15:43 schreef Mani89 het volgende:

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2 prachtige zielen die geschonken worden aan de hemel, en een moslimfundisnack voor Beëlzebub.

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Iran: Extradition of Sydney attacker refused
Tehran says it demanded extradition of Sydney cafe hostage-taker in 2000, but its request was rejected by Australia.

Iran's police chief has said his country had demanded the extradition of Man Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage taker, 14 years ago over charges of fraud, but the request was rejected by the Australian authorities.

Three people were killed, including Monis, when heavily armed police stormed a cafe in downtown Sydney early on Tuesday morning to free terrified hostages held at gunpoint for 16 hours.

We do need to reflect on what is happened and to ponder what might have been done better.

Tony Abbott, the Australian prime minister,

Police are investigating whether the two captives were killed by Monis or died in the crossfire.

In 1996, Monis established a travel agency, but took his clients' money and fled, Iran's police chief, General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, told the country's official IRNA news agency on Tuesday.

Australia accepted him as a refugee around that time.

The police chief said Iran tried to have Monis extradited from Australia in 2000, but that it did not happen because Tehran and Canberra did not have an extradition agreement.

Iran's foreign ministry said it had warned Australia about Monis, who fled his homeland claiming persecution.

"We have repeatedly communicated to the Australian government the hostage-taker's psychological and criminal background since he fled Iran two decades ago and sought refuge in Australia, and that country was fully aware of his identity," state-run IRINN TV news channel quoted foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham as saying on Tuesday.

'System failed'

Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has acknowledged that the nation's security system failed to keep track of a gunman responsible for a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe, promising a transparent investigation into the events that led to the tragic attack.

"The system did not adequately deal with this individual, there is no doubt about that," Abbott said in an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio on Wednesday.

"Two very decent people are dead, others are injured, others are traumatised because of a madman who was roaming our streets," the prime minister said.

Abbott said authorities would investigate what led up to Monday's siege, why Monis was not on any watch list, how he got a permanent residency and how he obtained a gun.

"We particularly need to know how someone with such a long record of violence, such a long record of mental instability was out on bail after his involvement in a particularly horrific crime. And we do need to know why he seems to have fallen off our security agencies’ watchlist back in about 2009," he said.

Australia passed sweeping new security laws in October aimed at preventing people from becoming radicalised and going to fight in conflicts such as those in Iraq and Syria, where scores of Australians have joined fighter groups.

Monis, a self-styled sheikh who received political asylum in 2001, was well known to Australian authorities, having been charged as an accessory to murder and with dozens of counts of sexual and indecent assault. He had been free on bail.

Police had requested courts to refuse Monis bail but were not paying special attention to him because his charges were not linked to political violence and he was not on any watchlist, he said. Abbott also raised concerns about the bail system.

Greg Barns, a lawyer and a spokesman for the Australian Lawyers Alliance, said lengthy delays between arrests and cases being heard, along with the presumption of innocence, meant more people were on bail for longer, according to Reuters news agency.

"There are not enough courts, there are not enough judges, there is not enough legal aid. Every sector within the criminal justice system is under-funded by the government," he reportedly said.

Funding for the state's criminal justice system fell 11 percent in 2012-13, according to a government report, while delays in hearing criminal matters in the state Supreme Court grew to 6.5 months in 2013 from 1.5 months in 2010, according to its annual report.

New, tougher bail laws have already been passed in the state but delays caused by the need to train police, courts and lawyers mean they do not come into force until late January.

On Wednesday, people were still laying flowers and signing condolence books in Martin Place, a pedestrian mall near the scene of the cafe siege.