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Australia remembers victims of cafe siege
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AUSTRALIANS marked the one-year anniversary of a cafe siege by a self-styled Islamic cleric which left two hostages dead and shocked the nation with a message of unity yesterday.
At a twilight ceremony outside the cafe in Sydney’s Martin Place, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the events of December 2014 had left the city grieving.
But he said in response that “a whole nation resolved to answer hatred with love... To answer those who seek to divide us with solidarity”.
The Lindt cafe building in which the siege took place was lit up yesterday evening with projections of floral tributes and messages of support and unity.
Sydneysider Mary Gandy, among hundreds of members of the public attending the memorial, said the siege struck a chord with Australians.
“When you get something like this you’ve got to show your support,” she said.
Iranian-born Man Haron Monis began the siege in the upmarket chocolate cafe in the city’s financial hub Martin Place early on December 15, 2014, taking staff and customers hostage for 17 hours.
The siege ended after Monis, who was armed with a shotgun, shot dead 34-year-old cafe manager Tori Johnson. Police stormed the building, killing Monis while Katrina Dawson, a 38-year-old barrister and mother of three, died after being hit by a ricocheting police bullet.
The crime horrified Australia, prompting thousands to leave bunches of flowers in Martin Place in the following days, in an outpouring of emotion which transformed the pedestrian strip into a “sea of color”.
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