Dani Mansour was the first person arrested over the violence that erupted on the streets of western Sydney after the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on Monday night.
Silence befell Westfield Bondi Junction on Thursday as its doors opened to the public for the first time since Saturday’s horror knife attack that killed six and injured more than a dozen.
The prime minister has suggested the government will grant citizenship to a heroic security guard who confronted knife attacker Joel Cauchi.
“The Lord Jesus never taught us to retaliate,the Lord Jesus never said to us ‘an eye for an eye,a tooth for a tooth,’” the bishop said in an audio message released on Thursday.
A man has been charged by officers investigating a public order incident at Wakeley earlier this week.
Westfield Bondi Junction will reopen for business on Friday,as shocked shop workers still process the weekend’s horrific knife rampage.
The 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a western Sydney church had not attended school for more than six months,and his father had also seen signs of increasing “disobedience”.
Since the Bondi and western Sydney church stabbings,attention of politicians and analysts has turned to the role of social media in spreading false claims.
Authorities say that while the 16-year-old suspect was not on any terrorism watchlist,there were strong indicators Monday’s attack was religiously motivated. Follow live.
Cameron Solnordal watched the spotlight fall once again on schizophrenia after Joel Cauchi’s deadly attack and revelations he was diagnosed with the condition in his teens.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching to a small congregation,but thousands were tuning in via a livestream. Within minutes,they were arriving by the carload.