Australischer Journalist musste Bericht über korrupten Politiker und Immobilienentwickler zurücknehmen, weil er nach einem Brandanschlag weiterhin Morddrohungen erhielt

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  1. ‘You win, you run this city’: Death threats force FriendlyJordies to remove video

    Kate McClymont

    February 1, 2024 — 5.01pm

    Ongoing death threats have led to political commentator and YouTube satirist Jordan Shanks, known online as FriendlyJordies, taking down a YouTube video.

    “You win. We’re taking down the video,” said Shanks in a statement posted on his website. “Congratulations. You run this city.”

    Although Shanks did not name any person or group in his statement, NSW Police have charged an associate of one of the state’s most dangerous crime families, the Alameddines, over the firebombing of his Bondi home in November 2022.

    Links to the notorious family featured in the video which was aired before the firebombing.

    Titled “Coronation,” the 46-minute long video, broadcast in August 2022, centred on the property development company of the same name which briefly employed former deputy premier John Barilaro when he left politics.

    Barilaro was hired as Coronation Property’s executive director, despite the job not being advertised, from February until June 2022, when he resigned to take his controversial and now-abandoned New York trade role.

    Coronation’s former company secretary Andy Nahas’ alleged links to high-profile associates of the Alameddine crime family were examined in the video.

    “Police have made it very clear that many of the prime suspects in the firebombing are in that video,” said Shanks in the statement on his website.

    When the Alameddine associate was arrested over the arson attack in December, Detective Superintendent Gordon Arbinja said the person “has links to an organised crime group situated in the south-west of Sydney”. He also said police believed it was a “strong possibility” the firebombing was in retaliation for videos posted on the FriendlyJordies site.

    Shanks said his organisation had done “our absolute best” to keep the video up. “Believe me, we have.” However, they couldn’t afford the possible deaths of innocent people hanging over their conscience, he said in his statement.

    ‘Given these people’s colourful history we don’t consider these to be idle threats.’

    A statement from YouTube comedian FriendlyJordies

    “These figures are once again venting, threatening dire consequences if the video isn’t taken down. Given these people’s colourful history we don’t consider these to be idle threats,” said the statement.

    “In other words, you win. We’re taking down the video. Congratulations. You run this city.”

    Shanks said they had contacted appropriate authorities about the threats, to no avail. “It appears these men are free to point the scythe at anyone they wish, blackmail them with the most heinous, violent acts imaginable and there is not an authority in the land powerful enough, or perhaps foolhardy enough to check them.”

    The video was not taken down because of defamation threats, Shanks told the Herald, “but because of death threats against multiple people.”

    “We stand by every word in that video,” he said.

    There is no suggestion that any member of the Nahas family nor Barilaro had any knowledge of or involvement in the arson attack on Shanks’ Bondi rental property, which suffered significant damage when firebombed in November 2022.

    The YouTuber was not home at the time. There had been another attempt to firebomb the same house the previous week.

    “We can take solace in the fact that we did our part – more than our part. More than we will ever be able to publicly divulge. We ran out onto no man’s land without any support and support never came,” Shanks’ statement concluded.

  2. It’s extremely concerning that in a country like Australia the police will just shrug their shoulders after someone tries to murder you for reporting on corruption in politics.

  4. Not the most cunning offenders. This would have gone horribly wrong even if the takedown video hadn’t promoted the stuff.

  5. This has been going on for so long, how is the state not protecting these guys? Clearly the corruption runs insanely deep. Sad day for justice in Australia.

  6. Although I think friendlyjordies is a little over the top, it’s crazy to have to remove a YouTube video due to threats of death.

    Is the NSWPF simply dozing off when it comes to this kind of crap? We can’t allow organized crime to trample on our right to free speech in this nation, surely.

  8. Who could guess that governaments are corrupted…

  9. It’s sad that he knows what it’s like to have his life put at risk by power-hungry madmen. If only he could extend that empathy to the Uyghurs instead of simping for the Chinese government.

  11. As an American following these stories for the last year, I find this incredibly disturbing. Shanks is no stranger to speaking up on his investigative reporting. So the blatant corruption in the NSW government for this is beyond belief.

    I support FriendlyJordies and will continue to advocate for their work.

  12. Weird it’s almost like Machiavellian Italians and Hardcore Muslims have something in common

  13. I remember FriendlyJordies talking about this. We need to make this more public, Corrupt politicans are cancer and should be dealt with asap.

  15. For some reason seppos are always surprised to learn that Australia has corruption. Wait until they learn about the reason why California has such bad bushfires lol.

  16. This is just an awful look for Australia. This situation just invites more of the same.

  17. Lebanese crime familiy. We have some of those here in germany too. Watch out who you let in your country.

  18. People are acting surprised, but this kind of corruption is 1000% characteristic of what you’ll find in the hinterland areas of many “developed” nations. If Shanks pulled the same stunts he’s been at the last few years in Mississippi or Alaska, or in much of rural Canada, he’d be dead ten times over.

  19. Good ole Australia, the world shouldn’t have ever expected much from a bunch of ex cons stranded in a penal colony.

  20. Can’t believe they’re still fucking with this guy. I remember seeing a YouTube video about his house being firebomed a couple years ago if I’m remembering right.

  21. There’s a little bit of schadenfreude attached to seeing people repost the video and having the article shared. Streisand effect indeed

  23. The NYPD was once a taxpayer funded mob protection force too. It took the Knapp Commission to change that, but not until after Serpico got shot in the face.

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