Crime Six Dead and at least Eleven, including a nine-month-old baby, Injured after Mass Stabbing in Sydney Shopping Centre. Suspect shot dead by police.

[Osculater]

"Blame the knife" - dude literally would have preferred a gun for obvious reasons.

Holy fvck!

 

[Ruprecht]

bruh have you seen his photos?

he is whiter than you lol

not like that matters but he did not have dark features at all

it's called fucking lighting

People underestimate their own bias.
The guy was running around in the green and gold, the police had explicitly said they didn't think it was ideologically motivated, and yet still people were thinking the police were "hiding his identity" to cover up migrant/muslim terrorism. To the point they'd read "Gallagher" as Arabic in a blurry image (that's an inkblot test for you), and try and paint Westfield Bondi Junction as some sort of Jewish target.
Turns out he's a typically Australian guy that grew up in Toowoomba, enjoyed surfing (as recently as a week ago), but suffered long term mental health issues and had deteriorated in recent years.

 

[shockaholic12]

"Blame the knife" - dude literally would have preferred a gun for obvious reasons.

The fact a single man armed with just a stanchion was able to stop the murderer in his tracks so the people behind him had substantial more time to get their families to safety says a lot.

 

[tastaylvr]

The fact a single man armed with just stanchion was able to stop the murderer in his tracks so the people behind him had substantial more time to get their families to safety says a lot.

The bravest man was the guy in blue for me. Saved those kids for sure. He stood his ground with nothing but his hands.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Who said he was Muslim?

@Fox by the Sea did, and now he's running for his life in this thread because he's a pussy with no intellectual integrity.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Update Two:

Spoiler: Links

Disturbing theory emerges about killer behind Sydney massacre.

A disturbing theory has emerged about the killer who went on a stabbing spree in Sydney.

www.dailymail.co.uk

New details emerge about Bondi Junction knifeman that killed six

The man who killed six in the Bondi Junction stabbing spree has been identified as Joel Cauchi.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Horrific new details emerge about evil Bondi knife killer -

The killer who murdered six people in a stabbing spree at Bondi Junction Westfield's shopping centre was looking for surfing buddies just days before the massacre.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sydney stabbing suspect Joel Cauchi identified by police after Bondi mall attack

Joel Cauchi, 40, fatally stabbed five women and a man at Westfield Bondi Junction mall on Saturday.

www.bbc.co.uk

Australia stabbings: attacker and four victims named – as it happened

This live blog is now closed

www.theguardian.com

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sydney-stabbing-that-killed-6-was-not-an-ideological-attack-police-say-2024-04-13/

Some of this has already been posted by others, but some hasn't and I'll put it all in one place.

Joel Cauchi was 40.

He was single and schizophrenic. He was diagnosed with one or more mental health problems at 17.

He was from Brisbane but moved to Sydney a month ago. He was sleeping in a vehicle but seeking shared accommodation. He was renting a 'very small storage facility'. He was itinerant and in limited contact with his family (I think this means his parents and possibly siblings).

He was known to have an unhealthy fascination with knives. However he did not have a known history of domestic violence. He was in contact with the police often over the last four to five years, but had not been arrested or charged with any crime in Queensland.



He claimed to be an English tutor on social media. He also liked surfing.

He had been trying to meet up with people to surf, or to get to know gun enthusiasts.

A few hours before the attack he went into a restaurant and ate a curry. He behaved in a somewhat confused manner.

He did not know the victims. The dead man was a security guard.

According to you, @Tatra and @Scerpi this man has been a middle eastern arab muslim, a white atheist and a maltese jew all in the space of 48 hours.

Looks like the the true proponents of transracialism was you all along.

 

[Confucamus]

Conservatives are too trigger happy to label everything a muslim terrorist attack by migrants.. and its never petty to spike the football on them

So, you're happily no better than them?

Petty LMAO. Why does anyone need to do any betting instead of just waiting for a bit of info? Silly excuse for overt bigotry is what it is, full of assumptions and FUD.

Bigotry LMAO A useless term thanks to people like you, who would be nowhere near this thread if it was a Muslim. Most people are horrified at the murder of 6 people, regardless of who committed it.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

What a dumb thread.

 

[Helden]

So, you're happily no better than them?



Bigotry LMAO A useless term thanks to people like you, who would be nowhere near this thread if it was a Muslim. Most people are horrified at the murder of 6 people, regardless of who committed it.

But I am better, which is why I was correct and they were wrong.
I'm also not making generalized bigoted statements towards ethnic or religious groups.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Update Three:

Spoiler: Links

Details emerge about Bondi killer Joel Cauchi

Bondi killer flagged an interest in guns, frequented strip clubs and made repeated attempts to meet people in the weeks leading up to Saturday’s rampage.

www.afr.com

New details of Bondi Junction killer's final days before attack

www.9news.com.au

Joel Cauchi: who was the Queensland man who carried out the Bondi Junction mass stabbing?

Police say 40-year-old was an itinerant who moved to NSW last month and had a history of mental illness

www.theguardian.com

'Truly horrific': Cauchi family condemns murderous son

Joel Cauchi's parents have condemned their son's actions and expressed sympathy for the police officer who ended his...

www.illawarramercury.com.au

Cauchi was soliciting sex work on an escort website.

The profile, which has since been removed, describes Cauchi's physical characteristics and the type of escort work he was available for.

'I am an athletic, good looking 39-year-old guy,' the profile reads. 'Let me gently massage all of your body.'

He frequented strip clubs and at least one brothel.

Cauchi was unemployed, had no children and seems to have been lonely. He made a lot of effort to meet people for various social activities, as well as dating and sex work.

In the months leading up to the murders Cauchi joined several online social groups, including a singles group for people in NSW and the ACT.

His posts show repeated attempts to meet friends, inviting people to be part of learning exchanges to study Russian, German or Swedish or to teach him surfing.

In December, he reached out to online groups to find someone to 'tag along with' to learn astrophotography, and in January called out for backpackers to 'rideshare with, pay for some fuel and stay at some interesting places reasonably close to Sydney together'...

As with the other posts, he received no public responses.

[This one does have public responses, although they could have been left after the attack. Still it seems his efforts to strike up relationships were often unsuccessful.]

He studied at the University of Southern Queensland and was a member of many social groups, including the Toowoomba Car Club and Toowoomba Arts Society, and appears to have had an interest in life drawing.

As usual there is some contradiction in details. One article now says that he ate a meal in the Vietnamese restaurant, left without paying, then returned later, had the same meal again and paid for both. Before I read that he entered, could not pay, left without eating, then returned, ate and paid. The newer article also says that in addition to reacting slowly and appearing confused, when he left the restuarant he fell into a shopfront, and a witness thought he was on drugs. He was also apparently seen in the mall 24 hours earlier, appearing agitated. Many articles are also still saying there are only six dead.

He may have been staying in backpackers' hostels as well as a vehicle.

Elaborating on the detail that he had an unhealthy fascination with knifes, he also appears to have had at least three hunting knives, at least some of which he had professionally sharpened.

A man who used to sharpen two of his hunting knives three years ago said he 'looked like he probably wasn't all there'.

The owner of a knife-sharpening business in Queensland, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Guardian Australia that Cauchi was an 'odd' and 'strange' guy.

Roughly three years ago Cauchi had asked the business to sharpen his two 'everyday knives'.

“Which I thought was weird,” the owner said. “He wasn’t a chef or a butcher. He goes, 'Oh no, I just do a bit of dabbling in the backyard with the knives and I use them every day.’”

The business owner said Cauchi had not engaged in small talk and was 'very to the point'.

“His expressions, he was just very vague, I suppose you could say,” he said. “No real personality about him, just weird. I heard he leaves one-star reviews on a lot of people’s pages all the time, so just that sort of person”.

The dead include:

Faraz Tahir, 30, a Pakistani 'refugee' who started working as a security guard that day,

Ashlee Good, 38, the mother of the nine-month-old,

Dawn Singleton 25, a shop worker and daughter of wealthy businessman John Singleton,

Jade Young, 47, an architect, and

Pikria Darchia, 55.

 

[legatoblues]

What a dumb thread.

It's the American way

 

[wlu.29]

Have you been to the middle East? I have many times. They're spindly. As I said revisit my fucking post if he is not of middle Eastern descent. I will eat crow.

How does it taste?

 

[wlu.29]

sorry i'll just interrupt this bullshit thread with the terrorist attack done in a Sydney mall, just some time ago. that guy surely isn't a muslim.

Yeah real Muslim

 

[Rholk]

Kind of telling to see that a terrorist attack beeing carried out by a non-muslim is worthy of celeberation lmao.

I'll admit, i assumed there would (once again) be a islamic motive in this attack.
In this case it turns out that it isn't true.

But people acting like it's totally unacceptable/crazy to assume that the motive for a terrorist attack in a (kind of) western nation would once again lie in (extremist) Islam is total bullshit.

 

[Scerpi]

According to you, @Tatra and @Scerpi this man has been a middle eastern arab muslim, a white atheist and a maltese jew all in the space of 48 hours.

Looks like the the true proponents of transracialism was you all along.

lol…. Ok bro

If your first thought when you hear about a mass stabbing isn’t “likely Muslim”, then you’ve been living under a rock during recent similar incidents.

Admit you thought that too… which is why all your clowns came running when it turns out it was a white guy with extreme Issues… ok, still awful.

But it’s a little sick seeing all you progressive clowns celebrating it wasn’t a Muslim this time…

Yay for you I guess.

Doesn’t change the fact that several EU countries are experiencing massive increases of violent crime due to…. Well, I’ll let you figure it out.

And there’s been several stabbing attacks carried out by Muslims.

Enjoy your shit “victory”

Next time I hear about a mass stabbing I’ll think it’s possibly…

Crazy white guy or Muslim

 

[Ruprecht]

It's the American way

People are stupid, and social media nonsense abounds (didn't help that even channel 7 asked about the social media rumours).

 

[Seano]

We all need to agree as a society to start taking a hard line on mental health. Left and right. We're letting the crazies take over. All of us.

 

[Staph infection]

Probably because white guys keep hogging all the guns for shooting rampages bud.

You sure about that chief?

 

[wlu.29]

Kind of telling to see that a terrorist attack beeing carried out by a non-muslim is worthy of celeberation lmao.

I'll admit, i assumed there would (once again) be a islamic motive in this attack.
In this case it turns out that it isn't true.

But people acting like it's totally unacceptable/crazy to assume that the motive for a terrorist attack in a (kind of) western nation would once again lie in (extremist) Islam is total bullshit.

There are crazy people all over, including Muslim terrorists, that's always a possibility

The ones in this thread were saying it was definitive because it fits their preconceived bias

 

[Protectandserve]

We all need to agree as a society to start taking a hard line on mental health. Left and right. We're letting the crazies take over. All of us.

100% this.

The crazy is getting more and more.