dozens of charges<\/a> including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act. Police shot him in the abdomen during a gunfight at Bondi on December 14 and he spent a week in a hospital before he was transferred to a prison. Police shot his father dead at Bondi.\n <\/p>\n\n Authorities are promising the largest police presence ever at New Year\u2019s Eve festivities at Sydney Harbor on Wednesday. More than 2,500 officers will be on duty. Many will be openly carrying automatic rifles, a sight rarely seen on Sydney streets.\n <\/p>\n
\n The first police responders to the Bondi massacre were armed with Glock pistols that lacked the lethal range of the Akrams\u2019 rifles and shotguns. Two police officers were among the wounded.\n <\/p>\n
\n New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said the state was not moving toward a more militarized police force in response to the attack.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cGiven we\u2019ve just had the worst terrorism event in Australia\u2019s history inside the last month, it would be self-evidently the case that things need to change and the security needs to change,\u201d Minns said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI understand that there\u2019ll be some people that oppose this or regard it as the militarization of the police. My sense is far more families would fully support that kind of police operation because they will feel far safer in that environment,\u201d Minns added.\n <\/p>\n
\n More than 1 million revelers crowd the waterfront each year to see a world-famous fireworks display centered on the Sydney Harbor Bridge.\n <\/p>\n
\n Minns said he was concerned that any reduction in crowd numbers would be interpreted by extremists as a victory.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to thumb our nose at the terrorists and their ideology that really would have us living in a ball and not celebrating this beautiful city. So this is an opportunity to live your life and show defiance to that kind of ideology,\u201d Minns said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Bondi victims will be commemorated with one minute of silence at 11 p.m. on Wednesday when four images of a Jewish candelabrum known as a menorah will be projected on the bridge\u2019s pylons, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Local government authorities had planned to project images of a dove with the word \u201cpeace,\u201d but that was changed after consultation with Jewish representatives.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI continue to listen to the community to ensure the acknowledgement of the horrific attack at Bondi Beach during New Year\u2019s Eve is appropriate,\u201d Moore said in statement.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-479810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115808026357790148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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