here we go again
New Zealand shooting: man shot dead by police after ‘terrorist attack’ in Auckland that injured six
Jacinda Ardern says attack was carried out by a ‘violent extremist’ who followed Islamic State ideology and was being monitored by police
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/man-shot-dead-in-new-zealand-after-injuring-people-in-supermarket-police-say
why is stuff bleeped out?
Terrorism attack: Crown files urgent court action to lift suppression orders
The Crown is seeking the court's urgent lifting of the suppression orders which prevent the background of the terrorist responsible for the Auckland supermarket knife attack being made public, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
The urgent application is being filed this evening.
The court action is the sequel to a terrorism incident at a Countdown supermarket at the LynnMall in New Lynn this afternoon.
During the incident a man armed with a knife injured six shoppers. All six have been transferred to hospital with three in a critical condition and one in a serious condition.
The man was shot dead by two police officers soon after the attack began.
At a media briefing this evening, Ardern said she wanted to share as much as she could about the attacker who was a Sri Lankan man who moved to New Zealand in 2011.
He had been under surveillance since 2016 because of his support for a violent ideology inspired by the Islamic State.
The reasons he is known to agencies is subject to suppression orders, but Ardern said it was her view that it was in the public interest to share as much information as possible.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450718/terrorism-attack-crown-files-urgent-court-action-to-lift-suppression-orders
get the feeling 9/11 is a marker?
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pics here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9953917/Auckland-supermarket-shooting-Knifeman-shot-dead-police-knife-rampage.html
Due to suppression orders that are already in place, the prime minister says there is information about the man's identity and details of his past criminal history that cannot yet be revealed.
She vowed to share any further details 'within the confines of the law' if the court lifted suppression orders in the wake of his death.
But Auckland's mayor Phil Goff said it is 'frustrating' Ardern cannot reveal more details about the attacker.
The prime minister said: 'He was known to our national security agencies, was of concern and was being monitored constantly. There are very few people that fall into this category.'
She reiterated that if the offender had commit a crime in the past that would have allowed authorities to put him in prison, 'that's where he would have been'.
'The reason he was in the community is because within the law we could not put him anywhere else. His past behaviour was, within the threshold of the law, not enough to put him in prison.'
The attack has stirred painful memories of the Christchurch mosques shootings in March 2019, New Zealand's worst terror atrocity, when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers and severely wounded another 40.
Ardern said: 'The fact that he was in the community will be an illustration that we haven't succeeded in using the law to the extent we would have liked.
'I know that we've been doing everything that we could, so I was absolutely gutted.'
The 32-year-old offender reportedly landed himself on terror watchlists after twice buying hunting knives and being found to possess Islamic State propaganda videos, NZHerald reported.
Just last month, he was sentenced to a one year supervision order for possessing propaganda videos created by the Islamic State that promoted terrorism.
He had reportedly performed internet searches asking about the guidelines of 'lone-wolf mujahideen', knife attacks and prison conditions in New Zealand.
After receiving a formal warning from police, 'S' reportedly made a social media post which read: 'One day I will go back to my country and I will find Kiwi scums in my country… and I will show them… what will happen when you mess with S while I'm in their country. If you're tough in your country… we are tougher in our country scums.'
'S' had reportedly told worshipers in his mosque that he intended to join ISIS and was arrested at Auckland Airport in May 2017 after booking a one-way ticket to Singapore.
The outlet revealed he had only recently been released from prison after a High Court judge ruled preparing a terrorist attack was not equitable to performing a terrorist act and sentenced him on a lesser charge.
The day after he walked free from prison, 'S' purchased yet another hunting knife. He was arrested again, but was not prosecuted under the strict terrorism laws.
Ms Ardern reiterated several times on Friday afternoon that the Countdown attack was the work of 'an individual, not a faith'.
Disturbing footage of the attack was shared online, showing customers running to safety as at least 10 police units swarmed the surrounding streets.
'Holy f**k. Oh my God… Someone is in there with a knife, somebody has been stabbed,' a woman said in the footage
A witness said people were 'running out, hysterically, just screaming, yelling, scared' as an elderly man laid injured on the floor and a middle-aged woman was stabbed in the shoulder.
One bystander video taken from inside the supermarket records the sound of 10 shots being fired in rapid succession.
The offender was reportedly acting 'like a lunatic' and indiscriminately lunging at anybody in his path, the witness said.
Another woman said she heard police ordering the offender to surrender before five gunshots rang out.
Two officers were involved in shooting him dead.
The three victims who remain in a critical condition were rushed to Auckland City hospital along with a fourth person in a serious condition.
One victim in a stable condition was taken to Waitakere Hospital while another was rushed to Middlemore Hospital.
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https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/alleged-isis-sympathiser-found-guilty-of-possessing-objectionable-hymns-acquitted-of-video-and-knife-charges/
same guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A man accused of being an Islamic State sympathiser has been found guilty by a jury of possessing propaganda-style material for the terrorist organisation.
However, he has been acquitted on other charges for allegedly possessing a graphic video depicting a prisoner being decapitated and possession of an offensive weapon.
The 32-year-old, known only as S due to an interim suppression order, has been on trial in the High Court at Auckland for the past week.
Today, the jury returned verdicts over three charges of possessing an objectionable publication relating to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).
S was also charged with failing to comply with a police search, which the jury found him guilty of.
The three publications were two audio videos with nasheeds (hymns and chants) and a seven-minute, violently graphic, Isis propaganda video.
S was found guilty of possessing the two nasheed publications and not guilty of of posessing the longer video.
The material has since been declared objectionable by the Chief Censor for promoting acts of extreme violence, cruelty and terrorism. It was only the second time the Office of Film and Literature Classification was asked to look at Isis-related material.
Isis, also known by its Arabic name Daesh, is a designated terrorist organisation which at its peak in 2015 held large areas of Iraq and Syria in its quest to establish an Islamic state under Sharia law.
The Masjid e Bilal mosque, just five kilometers away from the supermarket, is also surrounded by armed police and is believed to form part of the police investigation.