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| 2017-01-20 | |||
| Bourke St Mall carnage: Baby among three dead, at least 20 injured [9news.com.au] At least three people including a baby are dead and 20 are injured after a driver ploughed through Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall, running over pedestrians as the car sped down the shopping strip. Witnesses say the driver rampaged through the CBD for a distance of at least two blocks at speeds of at least 60km/h, leaving a "mass of bodies" in his wake before turning left onto Elizabeth St. Police say he then deliberately drove into the Bourke St mall and rammed into pedestrians, hitting a pram in the process. Police said the incident is connected to a stabbing in Windsor earlier today, which left a man in his 20s critically injured, but stressed that the incident is not counter-terrorism related. Police will provide a further update at 5pm this afternoon. Video taken from a convenience store shows a horde of people rushing frantically inside as the car accelerates down the pavement. "There was a car that just sped along the footpath and hit people," a witness told police at the scene. A man dressed only in red underwear has been arrested at the Elizabeth St end of the mall, and Ambulance Victoria is treating at least 20 people. "We heard two gunshots over nearby construction noise and we moved over towards the window at that stage to see police yanking this man from the car," witness Ben Anderson told nine.com.au. "He had climbed across the passenger side of the seat, whether that means he was trying to escape I am not sure but police had their weapons drawn and pulled his out." A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the exact circumstances of the event are still being determined but the situation is now under control. CCTV shows the older model maroon red Commodore driving in wild circles outside Flinders St station, missing pedestrians by centimetres just before 1.40pm. An overturned baby pram has been photographed at the scene, with one witness telling Sky News the infant – believed to be "three or four" – "may not have made it". It now appears that fear has been confirmed, with reports the child died at the scene. In a bizarre coincidence, the former Victorian police commissioner Christine Nixon, was on the scene. The driver reportedly missed Ms Nixon by a metre and the former top cop helped direct traffic in the chaotic minutes after the carnage. "I just stood there for 15 or 20 minutes directing traffic. No one disobeyed my instructions," she said. A mother was reportedly asking Ms Nixon, "Where is my baby? Where is my baby?" Ms Nixon answered, "I don't know, the child is not in the pram." The Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital has confirmed four admissions, with one child listed as critical and the other three in serious conditions. Another witness, Matthew Edwards, has told nine.com.au that he saw the "car had come up on to the footpath and ran people over for a block or two." "Someone was hit out the front of Myer and another person was laying on the ground in a pool of blood in front of the Commonwealth building. "Police were stopping people from going any further, saying 'you don't want to go up there' which means it much have been pretty bad." Mr Edwards said witnesses were quick to grab their mobile phones as police swarmed on the area while paramedics treated victims. "People were making a human barricade around a lady bleeding on the footpath. She was laying on her stomach – there was blood everywhere." He said the car had mowed people down in the exact place he was standing only moments earlier. Another witness said they saw the driver "doing burnouts, screaming to a lot of people...it's like something out of a movie."l
Andrea Hamblin is a reporter for the Herald Sun. Her tweet below indicates that the police are not so much as investigating the car attack that killed at least three people and wounded many more in Melbourne as they are actively trying to cover up evidence that it was a jihad attack. They don’t want people to think this was jihad, and are working to conceal evidence that it was. What do they think this denial will get them? Do they think it will please and pacify Muslims in Australia, such that there will be no more jihad attacks of this kind? If so, they’re in for a rude awakening. Or do they have some agenda that involves wanting to keep Australians ignorant and complacent about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat? video of eyewitness interview (censored in Australia) at website
Gargasoulas was wearing nothing but red underwear when he was detained by police at the Elizabeth Street end of the mall. He remains under police guard in St Vincent's Hospital and is yet to be questioned. Gargasoulas recently posted on his Facebook page claiming he was not Greek Tongan, but rather: 'Greek islamic kurdish ANGEL OF CULT' (sic). He also posted: 'I'LL TAKE YOU ALL OUT ... YOU NEED AN ARMY TO TAKE ME'. Officers said the incident is believed to be linked to a stabbing of a man in Windsor, in Melbourne's south east at 2am on Friday. The offender was known to police for a string of family violence-related assaults and suffers mental health and drug-related issues, according to the Victorian Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton.
After attacking his brother, Gargasoulas is accused of storming into his mother's ex-boyfriend, Gavin Wilson's, housing commission apartment and demanding the keys to his Holden Commodore. The 76-year-old said Gargasoulas came into his flat with a Bible, set it alight and threw the burning book into his face before threatening to gouge his eye out. 'He asked me twice for (the keys) and I said "no, I'm not giving it to you",' Mr Wilson said in an interview with Seven News. 'Then he put his hand in my eye and started pressing. He said "Give them to me or I'll gouge your eye out", so I said "OK, OK".' | |||
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