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Man wrongly identified as Bondi Junction killer hires lawyers to sue Seven
By Calum Jaspan
A 20-year-old man wrongly identified by the embattled Seven Network as the Bondi Junction mass murderer has engaged a high-profile legal team to threaten defamation action against the TV network.
Benjamin Cohen, who was incorrectly identified as the knife attacker by Seven on Sunday, has engaged two of Australia’s foremost defamation lawyers – Patrick George of Giles George as his solicitor and Sue Chrysanthou, SC, as his barrister – to seek damages from the broadcaster. The lawyers have issued a concerns notice on Wednesday morning, a compulsory first step before formal legal action is taken.
Sydney man Ben Cohen was misidentified as the Bondi Junction killer.
On Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after the events at Westfield Bondi Junction, in which Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured several others, Seven’s Sunrise program named Cohen, a 20-year-old student at the University of Sydney, as the perpetrator.
Cauchi was shot dead by police officer Inspector Amy Scott.
Cohen was named on social media, in particular on X (formerly Twitter), from about 8.30pm on Saturday. His name was soon trending, with more than 50,000 posts naming him as the unconfirmed killer.
Many posts drew attention to his Jewish identity.
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Increased security, police presence when Westfield Bondi Junction reopens
By Jessica McSweeney
Staying with the Westfield Bondi Junction press conference, Scentre Group chief executive Elliott Rusanow says security will be ramped up as the public returns to the shopping centre.
“There will be an increased security presence, there will be an increase in the equipment that the security guards have to wear, but more importantly there’ll be an increased police presence,” he said.
One of the people killed when Joel Cauchi went on a stabbing rampage through the shopping centre was Westfield security guard Faraz Tahir.
Rusanow said there would now be an increase in the personal protective equipment used by security guards.
A memorial site will be available inside the shopping centre for the public to leave flowers and tributes to the victims, and digital advertising screens will display a black ribbon as a symbol of remembrance and mourning.
Westfield Bondi Junction to open for ‘community reflection day’
By Jessica McSweeney
Westfield Bondi Junction will open to the public on Thursday for a “community reflection day” with retailers to remain closed. Businesses will be allowed to resume trade from Friday.
Scentre Group chief executive Elliott Rusanow said that the centre would be a quiet place for the community to come to pay their respects on Thursday after Saturday’s stabbing attack, which claimed the lives of six people.
Counselling will be available on Thursday.
The pile of flowers left in Bondi Junction.Credit: Oscar Colman
Rusanow said Scentre Group had offered the opportunity for the families of the victims of the stabbing attacks to visit the scene on Tuesday for their own private reflection.
“It was a very emotional experience,” he said.
Shoppers and staff working on Saturday were forced to abandon their cars and belongings as the shopping centre became a crime scene.
Since Tuesday, Westfield staff and police have escorted people back into the centre to retrieve their items and cars, although the businesses have remained shut and the centre closed to the public.
Watch: Westfield Bondi Junction opening update
Scentre Group CEO Elliott Rusanow is holding a press conference about the plans to reopen Westfield Bondi Junction after Saturday’s stabbing attack.
Watch the press conference, which is expected to begin at 11.30am, below.
Father of alleged church attacker didn’t see any extremist signs: Muslim leader
By Sally Rawsthorne
The father of the teenager arrested over the stabbing at Wakeley’s Church of the Good Shepherd spent the night of the attack driving around western Sydney with a friend, too afraid to go home.
He turned to community leader and lawyer Gamel Kheir, who told the man to come to the Lakemba Mosque.
Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamel Kheir.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
“He truly was in shock, he broke my heart,” said Kheir, the secretary of the Lebanese Muslim Association.
“He said, ‘I want to see my son.’ He was distraught, in shock, too scared to go home.”
The man then came to the mosque and spent the night there with Kheir and a number of the mosque’s other attendees who were there to defend it against threats of firebombing made following the stabbing.
The boy’s father said the teen had been increasingly “disobedient”, Kheir told the Herald, but there were no signs of him becoming radicalised.
“There was nothing he could see that he had gone that far down.”
The association will undertake an investigation into online radicalisation, and how to stop people from consuming radical content.
Kheir said the incident spoke to the need for further funding for mental health issues in the community.
“It’s not a religious issue. I don’t know of any religion on earth that says to go to another parish and stab someone.”
Kheir said he was hopeful of meeting Assyrian community leaders at the mosque in the coming days.
ESafety commissioner will weigh legal options against X
By Michael Koziol
Julie Inman Grant, the eSafety Commissioner, says she will weigh up legal options against X, formerly Twitter, later today after assessing what action the social media platform had taken to remove extreme content related to the Wakeley stabbing attack.
Grant said she issued a removal notice to X at 2.30pm on Tuesday, and to Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) later that afternoon. They have 24 hours from that time to act.
Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner.
“We have seen them step up their efforts,” she told ABC Sydney radio on Wednesday.
Asked by a listener whether she had the power to shut down X in Australia, Grant said she had a wide range of powers including “different kinds of court notices”, which she would consider at 2.30pm once the 24-hour window had expired.
Companies broadly had the technological tools to remove violent content, she said. “It is really a matter of leadership and prioritisation.
“I wouldn’t say that they don’t care … unfortunately, we have seen a ratcheting back of trust and safety operations across the platforms and across the industry.”
NSW Health releases patient update after Bondi attack
By Jessica McSweeney
Now let’s turn our attention back to the horrific mass killing at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday in which six people died and attacker Joel Cauchi was shot dead by a police officer.
NSW Health is providing regular updates on the conditions of the victims who remain in hospitals across Sydney.
New mother Ashlee Good was one of those killed, and her nine-month-old baby remains in Sydney Children’s Hospital where her condition has improved from critical to serious but stable.
She is now out of the ICU.
Two patients remain at St Vincent’s Hospital, including a woman who is in a stable condition in ICU, and a man in a stable condition in a ward.
Two patients remain at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, with one woman in a serious but stable condition in ICU and a man in a stable condition in a ward.
Finally, a woman is at Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable condition.
Bondi stabbing fatalities: (top row) Ashlee Good, Jade Young, Dawn Singleton, (bottom row) Pikria Darchia, Faraz Tahir and Yixuan Cheng.
‘Switch it off’: Plibersek slams social media after Sydney church attack
By Mike Foley
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek spoke on ABC television this morning, pleading with social media companies to help instil calm after the church attack.
NSW Premier Chris Minns also aired his concerns about the role of social media in spreading unrest and disinformation.
But Plibersek said some people were using social media to inflame tensions in the community and said people should turn it off.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has urged people to switch off social media.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“If you have got any influence on your friends and family, ask them to switch off the social media at the moment,” she said.
“I really don’t think that the social media companies are doing as much as they ought to be to support the police in their efforts to keep calm in the community. We know there are people deliberately trying to stoke division on social media. Deliberately lying to create that social division. Switch it off if you can. Switch it off.”
O’Neil is confident in security services after church attack
By Caroline Schelle
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says the government has enormous confidence in people who work in security services after Monday night’s Wakeley church stabbing.
O’Neil said the government and Australian people’s hearts went out to the community who were affected by the attack.
“To have an incident like this occur particularly in the context of people calmly worshipping is just something that’s so awful to see,” O’Neil said on Seven’s Sunrise this morning.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is confident in Australia’s security services after the Wakeley church attack.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
The minister was questioned about the country’s security services, and how they responded to the attack in Sydney’s west.
“I’ve got an enormous level of confidence in the people who work in this area,” she told the program.
She said they had thwarted about 21 terrorist attacks over the past decade that would have been “incredibly violent” if they weren’t uncovered.
“It is correct to say that we are seeing a trend where it is harder for us to discern when a terrorist attack like this may occur, but I would say that police and our law enforcement officials are very good at this, and I’m confident in their abilities,” O’Neil said.
“We need to let them do their investigative work. That’s progressing nicely.”
Family of alleged church stabber move out of home
By Jessica McSweeney
Staying with the police commissioner, Karen Webb has confirmed to ABC Radio National that the family of the alleged attacker in the church stabbing have moved out of their western Sydney home to avoid being targeted.
Webb said she wasn’t aware of reports the family was offered protection, but she implored the public to respect their privacy.
“I am aware that the family did seek to move elsewhere – they don’t want to be the centre of attention here and nor should they,” Webb said.
“They’ve made a decision to move for the time being.”
The 16-year-old remains under police guard in hospital, where he is expected to stay for the next three or four days.
He is yet to be charged.
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