A generationThe case of meters Knife attack from Oakland For many years, the New Zealand authorities have apparently tried to deport the perpetrators in Sri Lanka.Like the prime minister Jacinda Ardern It was stated on Saturday that the man who was shot in the act was allowed to roam freely, a threat known to the police, which was “disheartening”. According to information released so far, the Islamist received a notice of deportation in April 2019.
However, despite the delays in the appeal process, the 32-year-old man took out a kitchen knife from a showcase in a supermarket on the outskirts of Auckland on Friday and began to attack people at will. Seven people were injured and three of them were seriously injured. The undercover police who was assigned to monitor the man shortly afterwards shot him to death.
Obtaining refugee status through fraud
The man came to New Zealand in 2011 on a student visa. Two years later, he was granted refugee status. In 2016, the police noticed him because he had expressed sympathy for the terrorist attack on Facebook.
As Ardern now describes, during the investigation, the man obtained refugee status through fraud. The authorities filed a lawsuit requesting that the man’s protection status be revoked. The following year, he was arrested at Oakland Airport on suspicion of traveling to civil war Syria. According to court documents, a large hunting knife and Islamic propaganda materials were found during a search of his home.
In 2019, the man who claimed to be a Tamil Muslim appealed the threat of deportation. He said in court that if he is sent back to Sri Lanka, he will face “arrest, detention, ill-treatment and torture.” At that time, the man was still in pretrial detention for criminal proceedings and was released three years later.
As Ardern further described, the authorities are aware of the danger posed by Islamists. However, neither the immigration law nor the anti-terrorism law has a legal basis for further imprisonment. Ardern now hopes to change the latter before the end of this month.
New Zealand Police Chief Andrew Coster announced more details about the attack on Saturday. Therefore, this man’s shadow gives the impression that Islamists only want to buy groceries in the supermarket. Because of his “high paranoia”, the guard kept a distance from the suspect. Therefore, according to Coster, it took two minutes for the police to arrive and fired after the man began to stab himself.
At the same time, the mother of the perpetrator told a Sri Lankan television station that her son had been “brainwashed” by neighbors in Syria and Iraq. “We know he has changed,” she said from her home in Kattankudy, east of the capital, Colombo.
