It's scary!
Westfied商场惨案不久，
Similar incidents have happened in Australia one after another!
Just yesterday,
Something happened in Melbourne again!
Friday noon,
A 30-year-old man broke into a mall with a knife,
Assault and threaten customers!
Woolies closes its doors urgently, and people scream for their lives!
Similar incidents are frequent!
last month
A stabbing case was reported in a Melbourne shopping mall.
Someone was seriously injured and sent to the hospital, bleeding nonstop!
In addition, according to a netizen's post,
Someone in the Chinese area committed murder with a knife,
An elderly man was attacked,
I got three or four slashes in the face!
Many Chinese netizens were deeply shocked:
"Scared to death", "Don't dare to go out"
Recently, there has been a series of knife murders in Australia,
caused panic among the people of Australia,
The government may change the law,
Crack down on knife-wielding crimes.
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Not long after the Westfied mall tragedy, similar incidents occurred in Australia one after another!
The Daily Mail reported that a shopping mall in Melbourne had an emergency!
Just yesterday (Friday) at noon, a 30-year-old man attacked and threatened a customer with a knife, and police officers arrived at the scene to arrest him.
The incident reportedly took place at Watergardens Shopping Centre in Melbourne's north-west at approximately 12.50pm.
A man reportedly held a knife stolen from a grocery store and brandished it non-stop inside the mall!
According to Channel 7, the man attacked and threatened a 20-year-old woman and a 21-year-old male worker at a travel agency with a knife.
A valiant barber and several passers-by work together to subdue him.
(Image source: Daily Mail)
One witness recalled: "There were screams at the scene, chairs were thrown out, and others at the scene said they saw knives. ”
"Woolworths and surrounding shops were immediately closed and about 10 minutes later, the site was quarantined. ”
(Image source: Daily Mail)
Another man said his friend had witnessed the whole process.
"People started screaming for people with knives, and the scene became chaotic, with people taking refuge in stores, begging the store owners to close their doors, and others running towards the exit of the parking lot. ”
"Mothers with strollers were screaming and crying, and parents grabbed their babies and ran to the exit. ”
"Those who fled to the parking lot banged on people's car windows and told them not to enter the store and to leave quickly. ”
(Image source: Daily Mail)
Police said the knife-wielding man threatened a 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman.
"With the help of the public, we quickly arrested a 30-year-old man who is currently assisting us in our investigation," a police spokesman said.
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Similar incidents are frequent!
The Westfield murder shocked the world, and similar incidents have continued recently!
The Herald Sun reported on April 21 that a knife wound had occurred at Melbourne's Highpoint Shopping Centre.
One man stabbed another man in front of the restaurant before fleeing the scene.
Highpoint Mall (Credit: Herald Sun)
According to the report, the knife wounding case occurred at around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, and the knife wounding case is still at large.
It is understood that the two men, both in their teens, had a physical altercation before the attacker drew a knife and stabbed each other.
Witnesses said they saw the injured man stumbling down the stairs of the restaurant, bleeding profusely from his abdomen, before paramedics arrived at the scene.
The man who was stabbed suffered upper body injuries and was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Infirmary, where he was seriously injured but in stable condition.
According to Australia's Channel 9 News, the knife assault occurred outside the South Korean restaurant Seoul Kitchen in the shopping mall.
Seoul Kitchen has continued to operate after the incident.
The mall is not cordoned down and is not believed to pose an ongoing threat to the community.
In addition, some netizens posted on the Internet yesterday that someone in Glen Waverley in the Chinese area was attacked on the road, and the gangster was a white man wearing a black hoodie and holding a knife.
According to this netizen, "The man in the black hoodie grabbed the money and the car, but the other party didn't hand it over, the two exchanged fire, the black hoodie had a knife, and left after giving a few knives, and robbed another car in the process of leaving, but he couldn't drive, so he got down and ran, and he hasn't caught it yet." ”
(Image source: a book)
It is reported that the injured person had 3-4 knife marks on his face and was beaten next to his eyes.
Many Chinese netizens left messages saying that there have been many cases of knife wounding recently, which are "very scary" and "dare not go out".
Recently, there have been a number of knife attacks in Australia, especially in Melbourne and Sydney, which have caused people to be nervous.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in just 4 days, there were 5 unrelated knife wounding incidents in Sydney, resulting in a total of 7 deaths.
On the afternoon of April 13, Bondi Westfield, a well-known shopping mall in Sydney, had a vicious slashing case!
With 7 dead and 12 injured, it shocked the world and became the deadliest single attack in Sydney since the Lindt Cafe terrorist attack 10 years ago.
According to the Herald Sun, on April 15, a group of men armed with machetes engaged in a bloody brawl broke out in a shopping centre in Melbourne's west.
Multiple witnesses said they saw the group throwing chairs, brandishing knives and machetes.
Soon, the horror video of the scene went viral, and the whole shopping mall was in chaos.
The two groups reportedly got into a physical altercation at the mall.
One of the teenagers fled the scene and entered a nearby supermarket, while another group pursued them and threatened them with a machete.
A shopping mall worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she saw a man with a machete in his hand, shouting "Come outside and meet me," and a man not far away lay on his back on the ground.
Some elderly customers screamed in fright, and some shops had customers hide inside and lock their doors.
"The whole center was in chaos, it was terrible, there was a person with that machete less than 2 meters away," the staff member said. ”
Several attacks in such a short period of time have shocked the population, although unrelated, and their repercussions have reverberated across the country.
For many people, going to a church or a local shopping mall suddenly becomes a scary affair.
Many say their sense of security in Australia has been completely destroyed.
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The proportion of knife killings has risen, and the law on knife crimes may be revised
After a number of attacks over the next few days, people almost inevitably began to ask: Is there a knife problem in Australia?
In fact, knife crime in Australia has long been a problem.
On Thursday, NSW Police told reporters: "Knife crime is an issue that has been discussed in Australia and New Zealand for many years. This is nothing new. ”
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between 2010 and 2022, the number of knife-using homicides and related crimes (including murder, attempted murder and manslaughter), sexual assault, kidnapping and kidnapping remained relatively stable across Australia.
However, there is a worrying trend in these statistics – juveniles are significantly disproportionately disproportionately represented in the number of people accused of violent knife crimes.
According to police, juveniles are six times more likely than adults to be charged with robberies in NSW.
After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, the use of automatic and semi-automatic weapons was banned in Australia, and unlicensed possession of firearms was considered illegal, increasing the proportion of knife killings.
In the aftermath of the Sydney terrorist attacks, there have been calls for tougher measures and more proactive solutions to combat violent knife crime.
Federal government minister Bill Shorten has called for "nationally consistent laws" and "tougher punishments", while federal Labour frontbencher Jason Clare has said parents should be punished if they allow their children to leave the house with knives.
NSW Premier Cmin told reporters on Thursday that the state's Sentencing Commission is reviewing sentences for knife-related offences and will report back to the government.
"Given these very serious criminal attacks that have occurred in the past week, a responsible government will certainly review the existing legislation to see if it is possible to make changes that would help prevent similar attacks from happening," he said.
One option facing the NSW government is the so-called "search warrant" law, which allows police to use hand-held metal detectors to search for people in designated areas without a warrant.
Asked about the "search stick" law last Thursday, the police minister said hand-held metal detectors were already available in NSW and, echoing the governor's statement, all options would be considered.
If any reforms are implemented, it will be the second time that the Government has amended the knife crime law since it was elected in March last year.
In June last year, the NSW government passed legislation to increase the maximum penalty for the separate offence of carrying and brandishing knives in a public place or school from two years to four years in prison.