A stabbing rampage in an Auckland shopping mall has been described as a terrorist attack by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who identified the attacker as a violent extremist
A stabbing rampage in an Auckland shopping centre has been described as a terrorist attack by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who identified the attacker as a violent extremist, a Sri Lankan national who had been a person of national security interest since 2016.
He was shot within a minute of the attack by the police surveillance team and special tactics group that had been monitoring him 24 hours a day because of his beliefs, Ardern said. New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said while there would be questions about whether officers could have done more to stop the stabbing which left six people injured, he was satisfied police members did “not only what we expect they would do in the situation, but did it with great courage”.
Ardern said the authorities were not looking for anyone else in relation to the stabbing, and she was confident the man was a lone-wolf actor who had a “violent ideology and ISIS-inspired”. “Of all of the tools that we have, constant monitoring and surveillance ... is one of the strongest that we have, and that is what was attached to this individual. The fact that he was in the community will be an illustration of the fact that we haven’t succeeded in using the law, to the extent we would have liked.”
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