(NZ Herald) A coronial inquest will be held as to whether government agencies could have done more to prevent an Islamic State supporter from attacking multiple shoppers at a West Auckland supermarket. [Ahamed] Samsudeen, 32, injured six shoppers, including three critically, in […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Seven teenage boys allegedly belonging to a terror cell have been arrested in police raids across Sydney as part of a major counter-terrorism investigation launched after the stabbing of a Christian bishop last week. A further five people, including […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ designating the LynnMall attacker as a person of national security interest meant “the die had been cast on his future,” a coroner has heard. The Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand was the last group to make its […]
(Radio NZ) A group of officers who were surveilling LynnMall terror attacker Ahamed Samsudeen say they did not have the right equipment to prevent the attack. Samsudeen was shot 12 times by police after injuring seven people in a knife attack at […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ failure to provide the LynnMall terror attacker with religious support in custody may have contributed to his radicalisation and later violence, a lawyer for his family says. Ahamed Samsudeen seriously injured five people in a stabbing at a West […]
(Radio NZ) Survivors and witnesses of the LynnMall terror attack have together asked a coroner to hold a public inquest into the event. A hearing is under way in Auckland to determine the scope and form of a coronial inquiry into the […]
(Radio NZ) A hearing starts on Monday to determine the scope and form of a coronial inquiry into the death of the LynnMall terror attacker more than two years ago. Ahamed Samsudeen was fatally shot by the police after stabbing multiple people […]
(Stuff) Seven survivors of the 2021 LynnMall terror attack have shared their stories, and explained how they feel unsupported by the government. Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen seriously injured four women and a man on September 3, 2021, while being tailed by members […]
(Radio NZ) An Auckland man who was radicalised online and came close to a violent attack on the public has been granted permanent name suppression. The man was sentenced to two years and five months’ jail in March in the High Court […]
(Radio NZ) An Auckland man, who as a teenager self-radicalised online and came close to a violent attack targeting non-Muslims, has been sentenced to two years and five months’ imprisonment. The man, now 21 years old, appeared in the High Court at […]
(Radio NZ) Police, prisons and spy agencies missed chances to direct the LynnMall terror attacker away from violent extremism, and he was locked up for so long it greatly increased his radicalisation. These are among the “significant deficiencies” found by a hefty […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man told a person on social media he wanted to kill “non-Muslims” and began planning a terror attack in New Zealand, Stuff can now report. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man has admitted threatening to kill “non-Muslims” and distributing an Isis video. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted threatening to kill, two charges of distributing objectionable publications and six counts of […]
(Radio NZ) Ahamed Samsudeen’s friends called him the “lone wolf” attacker and knew he was under heavy surveillance, an Auckland bar owner claims. Eight people were injured at Countdown in LynnMall last September before Ahamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police who […]
(Radio NZ) A year ago today, eight shoppers were injured in a stabbing frenzy at LynnMall’s supermarket. Gill Bonnett looks back at what drove Ahamed Samsudeen to carry out New Zealand’s second terrorist attack in three years. “Since I was a child, […]
(Radio NZ) The government is considering how it can change the law to deport people who pose a threat to national security. This weekend marks a year since Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen walked into a supermarket in Auckland and attacked shoppers with […]
(Radio NZ) The inquiry into the LynnMall stabbings is not expected to finalise its report until the end of August. Ahamed Samsudeen injured eight people in a supermarket before being shot dead by police last September. The Independent Police Conduct Authority said […]
(Radio NZ) Newly released documents reveal the LynnMall knife attacker was assaulted twice in prison by other inmates, and blamed for starting a third fight. A Muslim leader says the fact this is only coming to light now shows how one-sided the […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man charged with threatening to kill “non-Muslims” has been declined bail and will remain in custody until a future court date. The 20-year-old, who has interim name suppression, was charged in September days after the LynnMall terror attack. He […]
(Radio NZ) The government is looking into whether it will change the law to make it possible to send would-be terrorists, or refugees who have been serious offenders, back to their home countries. And former justice minister Andrew Little has defended how […]
(Radio NZ) The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat. Ahamed Aathill Samsudeen stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket […]
(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence. Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain […]
(Radio NZ) Security services briefings show the LynnMall attacker was highly likely to carry out a terrorist attack in New Zealand only if he was prevented from leaving the country. They show Ahamed Samsudeen believed he had been set up and that […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man charged with threatening to kill “non-Muslims” faces six new charges of possessing objectionable material. The 19-year-old, who has interim name suppression, also faces two charges of distributing objectionable publications between July and September 2021. He appeared at the […]
(Global News) Six months after Kevin Omar Mohamed‘s prison sentence for terrorism came to an end, the RCMP’s Toronto O-INSET national security team decided to check up on him. What they found set off alarms. Not only was he violating his probation […]
(NZ Herald) A teenager accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims has been granted name suppression after a lawyer argued the young man had a chance of being deradicalised. The 19-year-old Auckland man first appeared in the North Shore District Court on September […]
(Radio NZ) A 19-year-old accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims will keep his identity secret for now, after an appearance in North Shore District Court. The man was arrested in Auckland last week — just days after the LynnMall terror attack — […]
(NZ Herald) A teenager has appeared in court charged with threatening to kill non-Muslims. The 19-year-old appeared by audiovisual link at North Shore District Court this afternoon, one week after a terrorist went on a stabbing frenzy in New Lynn. His name […]
(AP) Immigration officers feared him. So, too, did prosecutors, prison officials and police. They thought he could launch a terror attack at any moment. Even the prime minister wanted him deported. Yet, in the end, nobody in New Zealand was able to […]
(Radio NZ) The man responsible for Friday afternoon’s terror attack in a west Auckland supermarket can now be named as Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen. The 32-year-old Sri Lankan national was shot dead by police after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall. A […]
(Radio NZ) Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday’s terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been revoked, but his name cannot be published yet, with the High Court giving his family at least 24 hours to seek further suppression […]
(NZ Herald) A man has been fatally shot by police officers and six shoppers have been injured — including three critically — in horrific scenes at a West Auckland supermarket this afternoon. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was a terrorist attack […]
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