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| Day 3: Melbourne CBD attack: Alleged Flinders Street driver Saeed Noori rambled about Allah and ASIO | |
| 2017-12-23 | |
| [TheAge] Flinders Street driver Saeed Noori rambled about Allah, Australia's spy agency ASIO and the mistreatment of Moslems in the hours after the attack, police say. Police revealed more on Friday afternoon about what the 32-year-old drug addict told them as Sherlocks continue to search for a motive behind the rampage. It comes as Mr Noori was discharged from hospital and into police custody, where he is set to spend the night before being formally interviewed by homicide detectives on Saturday. He has not yet been charged. Acting Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said police have not ruled out terrorism, but the only clue that suggested a possible link was what Mr Noori told Sherlocks in St Vincent's Hospital on Thursday night. Police searched Mr Noori's home in Heidelberg West, where he was living with a relative, and the home of family in Oak Park. They seized computers and materials which, so far, have not revealed any motivation. ASIO had nothing in its intelligence holdings on Mr Noori, Mr Patton said. It would almost be easier to explain, Mr Patton said, if it were a clear-cut case of terrorism. Three people remain in a critical condition, the worst of whom is an 83-year-old man from Northcote in Melbourne's north. The four-year-old South Korean boy from Hoppers Crossing remains in a stable condition. Mr Noori, who police said had a long history of drug abuse and mental illness, has a prior criminal history of unlicensed driving, using a mobile phone while driving and failing to answer bail. He was not on bail at the time of Thursday's attack, police said. He was voluntarily subject to a mental health plan with a local hospital. Police are still tracing Mr Noori's movements from Thursday. The car he was driving, a white Suzuki, belonged to someone in his family. Mr Noori arrived in Australia from Afghanistan at 18 in 2004 before becoming a citizen in 2006. He spent recent years in Melbourne's northern suburbs, far removed from the heartland of the city's Afghan population in the outer south-east. He regularly walked home from the hospital where he received treatment for his mental illness. It's believed he previously worked in a trade.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Suggestively white, right-wing, country music listening voters? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-23 15:28 |
| #1 He spent recent years in Melbourne's northern suburbs, far removed from the heartland of the city's Afghan population in the outer south-east. And what demographic might the Northern Suburbs be a euphemism for?? remembering that The Age is a left wing rag. |
| Posted by: Classer 2017-12-23 01:43 |