#bondi junction westfield

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JOEL CAUCHI

BONDI JUNCTION WESTFIELD ATTACK

Joel Cauchi

13 April 2024

Six people (5 women and 1 man) have been murdered in a mass killing in Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday, when at 3pm, Queensland man Joel Cauchi walked into the shopping centre wearing a green and yellow sport jersey and then left. He returned 10 minutes later and then started stabbing and killing people, mainly targeting women. There are twelve people in hospital suffering serious injuries.

            Ashlee Good was stabbed to death by Cauchi, who also stabbed her 9-month year old baby daughter who had to get emergency surgery. Australian millionaire John Singleton’s daughter, Dawn, 25, was also a victim; and there were also two victims who from overseas.

            There were many heros yesterday, including a man from Russia who tried to prevent the attacker from killing more people by fighting him off with a bollard. There were men who ran after the perpetrator, one of the them carrying a chair. One man walking behind a woman with her children (possibly his partner and children) realised the danger they were in and turned around and attempted blocking the way to protect the three. Instead of running towards the man, Cauchi dodged him and ran into a different direction.

The NSW police officer, Amy Scott, who was the only police officer on site at the time who ran towards Cauchi and shot and killed him and saved more lives in doing so.

            The perpetrator was known to police and had mental health issues. It was said that he had no police record but there are rumours online that he had been previously arrested for DV and assault - however, this is all heresay.

            There was a woman, 36, who was stabbed on Bondi Beach on Friday, 12 April - the day before the Westfield stabbings. The perpetrator of that attack hasn’t been arrested and was still under investigation when the Westfield stabbing took place. Some believe that the Bondi Beach stabbing may have been linked to Cauchi or perhaps it was just a coincidence?

            Some commenters believe he was a drug addict, we don’t know if that is true or not. One man who knew him up in QLD told the media that Cauchi owned knives which he named his ‘everyday knives’. On his Facebook account he described himself as ‘single’. He was known to go to nudist beaches, strip clubs as well as listing himself on an escort website in Sydney in June last year.

            Criminal psychologist Dr Watson-Munro stated that Cauchi ‘knew what he was doing’ and that he was ‘bad not mad’ and ‘there’s clearly planning attached to this’. He stated, “But here was somebody who was on a mission, he knew what he wanted to do and he did it with deadly affect.”

            He came down from QLD to Sydney only a month ago, rented a small storage facility and went to Bondi to learn how to surf. He went surfing at Bondi 6-days ago. In 2010, he was an online English tutor. There is still a lot of information we don’t know as yet as the investigation continues.

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[snarkleharkle]

You are not immune to propaganda

[raihanmutual]

Got on the wrong bus and ended up at Bondi beach. Was confused as to why it’s such a tourist attraction but I get it now

[coochiequeens]

Finally a peice that talks about how 5 of the 6 in the people killed in the sydney stabbings were women. And yes he was mentally ill but he felt entitled to a girlfriend.

By Victoria Smith 16 April, 2024

Did Joel Cauchi, the man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre, do so because he was mentally ill? Or did he do it because he hated women?

Five out of six of Cauchi’s victims were women, which does seem targeted. Nonetheless, according to his family, Cauchi, 40, “battled with mental health issues since he was a teenager”. For this reason, some have found talk of misogyny unseemly, if not exploitative. To categorise Cauchi’s act as male violence against women, if not terrorism underpinned by misogynist ideology, can be appear dismissive of genuine sickness. Sometimes, bad things just happen because people are unwell. 

For women who live with men who have severe mental health diagnoses, there is little comfort in discussions such as these. On the one hand, there is an enormous amount of pressure to downplay the idea that mentally ill men are more likely to be violent than other men (they are, but to say so is viewed as contributing to stigma). On the other hand, is it fair for a man with severe mental illness to be judged by the same moral standards as other men? Shouldn’t we be recognising that they cannot control their perceptions and fears?

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The Sydney attacker was desperate for a girlfriend, his family has revealed as police confirmed that he had targeted women.

Joel Cauchi killed five women and one man during a knife attack on the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre on Saturday.

Karen Webb, the New South Wales police commissioner, said: “The videos speak for themselves. It’s obvious the offender had focused on women and avoided the men.”

The majority of the 12 people Cauchi seriously wounded were female, including a baby girl.

Andrew Cauchi, his father, said on Monday he knew why his mentally unwell son had targeted women. The 76-year-old told reporters outside his home in Queensland: “Because he wanted a girlfriend and he’s got no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain.”

Describing his son as “very sick”, he described trying to deal with the feelings of “loving a monster”.

A “heroic” policewoman who stopped a lone knifeman mid-rampage during a killing spree in a Sydney shopping centre has been named.

In one of several heroic attempts to disarm the attacker on Saturday, Amy Scott, a NSW Police Inspector, walked up calmly behind the attacker and ordered him to drop his weapon.

When he refused to do so and lunged at her with a knife, she shot him.

Six people were killed after the culprit – later identified by police as Queensland man Joel Cauchi – went on a stabbing spree in Westfield Bondi Junction, including a mother whose baby is reportedly now in a critical condition.

“She is certainly a hero. There is no doubt that she saved lives through her action,” Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, said on Saturday.

[parttimereporter]

Lone wolf stabbing attack at shopping center in Australia

Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a child, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping center in Sydney, Australian police said. Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple people stabbed. Witnesses described scene of panic with some forced to hide in shops as the attack unfolded. Five people died at the scene and another died later from stab wounds at the hospital, a New South Wales police spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The suspect - who police said acted alone - was shot dead at the scene by a lone officer. New South Wales Police’s Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said a senior police inspector was nearby when the attack unfolded.

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The 40-year-old suspect began stabbing people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

Six of the victims — five women and a man — and the suspect died. Commissioner Karen Webb said the eight injured people were being treated at hospitals. The baby was in surgery, but it was too early to know the condition, she said.

“We are confident that there is no ongoing risk, and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased,” Webb said in a later briefing. She added: "It’s not a terrorism incident.”

She said police wouldn't identify the man yet and were still working to determine his motivation.

Cooke said a ”lengthy and precise" investigation was just beginning.

[rapeculturerealities]

Australian police investigate why women were targeted in Sydney stabbing attack

Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said Monday. The killer’s father blamed his son’s frustration at not having a girlfriend.

Police shot and killed the homeless assailant, Joel Cauchi, during his knife attack in the Westfield Bondi Junction mall on Saturday near world-famous Bondi Beach.

[darlingjmiller]

absolutely horrified by what happened in Sydney today

for the non-australians here’s a tldr: a man with a knife stabbed more than 10 people, including a baby, in one of the countries biggest shopping centres, before being shot dead by a nearby police officer. 7 people have been confirmed dead and at least 8 are injured.

the news is comparing it to the last major killing in australia’s history (the port arthur massacre that famously lead to strict gun laws in australia)

of course twitter is being its usual cesspool but there’s one thing for certain: had the man had a gun instead of a knife, so many more people would have been killed.

[madmadammagz]

Just wanted to talk about the Bondi Junction attack in Sydney that happened Saturday and reach out to everyone who works in retail. I work in a Westfield, I was working the day it happened and even though I was on the other side of the city (thankfully) I was terrified. Sure, we all continued to work as if it was business as usual but it reminded me of something our store manager told us. There's a rise in these incidents and it's no longer a 'if this happens' but a 'when' and we need to be prepared. A place like a shopping mall should not inspire fear but it does for me, and probably for anyone who works retail in a mall. Retail workers of bondi junction, regular shoppers of bondi junction, non regular shoppers who just went to get that one thing they needed, tourists who just wanted to experience Australia, I am so so sorry that happened to you. It could've happened at any Westfield and it happened to you and I am so sorry. Please let something be done about this rise in violence.

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6 killed in Sydney mall stabbing; police say terror not ruled out as motive

By AFP 13 April 2024, 1:09pm

Emergency officers stand by with stretchers outside Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, April 13, 2024 (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

SYDNEY - Six people were killed and several others injured - including a small child - when a knife-wielding attack rampage through a busy Sydney shopping centre on Saturday, Australian police said.

Multiple people were stabbed by the unidentified assailant, who was shot dead by a policewoman at the scene.

The incident occurred at the sprawling Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex, which was packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers.

"I'm advised that there are five victims who are now deceased as a result of the actions of this offender," said New South Wales police assistant commissioner Anthony Cooke. The death toll later rose to six.

The motive was not immediately clear, but Cooke said "terrorism" could not be ruled out at this stage.

[confusedbyinterface]

As horrifying as the attack at Westfield Bondi Junction was, it's also disturbing how many people's immediate response to hearing about it was to blame Muslims and call for deportations and revenge attacks. I forget how much racism and hate there is in this country sometimes.

[southernprideyall2]

I realize there are good Muslims, but how many modern-day attacks have been carried out by Muslims vs people with confederate flags? Yet guess who is open game?

[stele3]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-armoured-assaults-ramp-up-pressure-ukraines-east-army-chief-says-2024-04-13/

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JOEL CAUCHI

JOEL CAUCHI

Queensland murderer Joel Cauchi, 40, killed five women and one man on Saturday, 13 April 2024. He pre-planned the killing and knew what he was doing. He was targeting women and was filmed dodging men. Before the day he killed his victims, he was working out what was the best shopping centre to target his victims in, he settled on Bondi Junction Westfield.

            We now know the six victims involved and there are still seriously injured victims in hospital.

            It is confirmed the reason why Joel Cauchi targeted women, his father said it was because he ‘wanted a girlfriend’ and was frustrated. Cauchi, was a single male, mentally ill and was known to go to nudist beaches, strip clubs, and listed himself on an escort website in Sydney. He was interested in weapons, knives and tried to join a gun group before the massacre. The police were aware of his mental illness and his interest in weapons.

            Cauchi was an entitled male who most probably believed that because he wanted a woman, HE should have a girlfriend. Because he didn’t have a girlfriend, he lashed out and killed women and harmed and killed any male (including a security guard) who got in his way. He even attempted to kill a 9-month-old baby girl, who is still in hospital in stable condition (one of the victims is the babys mother). This is a man that didn’t respect women as people.

            A woman, aged 36, was stabbed on Bondi Beach on Friday, 12 April, the day before the Westfield killings. The perpetrator of that attack hasn’t been arrested or identified. Was this incident linked to Cauchi? Or is it just a coincidence?

            Criminal psychologist Dr Watson-Munro stated that Cauchi ‘knew what he was doing’ and that “… here was somebody who was on a mission, he knew what he wanted to do and he did it with deadly affect.”

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[troythecatfish]

[porcelain-dollbones]

@mazzy-v to add some context to what im saying-

while its true that most reporting mentioned his targeting of women, they largely did not place it in a broader context of violence against women. the police statement, which was widely repeated, ran as follows:

“We have received no evidence that we have recovered, no intelligence that we have gathered that would suggest that this was driven by any particular motivation, ideology or otherwise.”

“We know that the offender in the matter suffers from mental health … At this stage, it would appear that this is related to the mental health of the individual involved.”

to select a random article-

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bondi-stabbing-attack-everything-we-know-so-far/v9rbuprb6

the article repeats this claim uncritically, which is the pattern for all mainstream media outlet reporting that i personally have seen. the focus is very closely on his personal mental health issues while accepting the police line that there was no particular ideology or motivation.

my point with this post is that misogyny is an ideology. Femicide does not exist in a vacuum, and neither does the entitlement and rage against women for rejection apparently expressed by the perpetrator. These are products both of societal attitudes at large and specific, increasingly influental ideologies of misogyny (it is not clear if he was directly influenced by such movements, though i think it is very likely).

“Actual legit news sources” didn’t engage heavily in the speculation that the perpetrator was muslim/palestinian, but the mainstream media consists of many sources- such as tv presenters like Rachel Riley.

She was far from alone.

This is a case where the intersections of racism, misogyny and prejudice against the mentally ill can be seen in action, with the media helping to craft a narrative that demonises mental illness while dismissing violent misogyny as an individual rather than societal phenomenon.

i don't know if this is being talked about outside of australia, but recently there was a mass stabbing event in my city. six people are dead and eight more badly injured.

the media coverage and public conversation around the stabbing has been really awful. it started with frenzied theorising- without any evidence- that the perpetrator was a muslim extremist, a palestinian hamas agent, including spreading false information about the victims to create a narrative of islamic violence. when it resulted that the perpetrator was a white man from queensland, the coverage instantly shifted- instead of a terror attack, it was now a lone wolf, a non-ideological result of an individual's mental health issues. this is typical of the framing when it comes to perpetrators: a white person is an individual, a brown person is a faceless member of an ideology. but, crucially, the attack was not non-ideological. the perpetrator specifically targeted women, specifically avoiding men except where they were preventing him from getting to women. six out of seven of the deceased victims were women, and in interviews with the perpetrators parents, they talked about his anger at not having a girlfriend. misogyny is ideological, and men are trained to harbour deep resentment towards women that regularly manifests in violence. this event was a targeted act of femicide. while it is unclear if the perpetrator was involved in any specific right-wing groups, that the attack was driven by hatred of women is not in doubt.

the new narrative is one of demonising mental illness, because the perpetrator was diagnosed with schizophrenia and there is no avenue to blame his race. there are now open calls in the media for stricter use of sectioning and more oppressive tracking, forced medication and indefinite institutionalisation of the mentally ill. it is the mentally ill who will suffer from this narrative, while the fostering of violent misogyny goes unchecked. this country never stops letting us down