OPINION
As you may recall, there was a huge story in Australia which I couldn’t tell you much about. No one can: a Victorian judge slapped an almost-total suppression order on it.
I can’t tell you much about a new development in the story, either.
All I can tell you is that it concerns an activist, who cannot be named, of a certain community and a certain religion, which cannot be named, charged with the kidnapping, robbery and torture of a man, because he worked for a company owned by someone of a certain other community and a certain other religion, which cannot be named. Now, another person who cannot be named has been arrested.
That much I can tell you – and that’s about it.
The man, 25, has been charged with a range of offences over the alleged high-profile kidnapping in Melbourne’s west on February 16.
“A third person, a 25-year-old man from Lower Templestowe, was arrested on Monday 26 Feb and charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, armed robbery and assault related offences,’’ police said in a statement to The Australian on Thursday.
Confirmation of the third arrest comes after Brimbank Divisional Response Unit detectives charged two people in relation to the alleged kidnapping in St Albans last month.
The Australian
I can’t tell you anything much about the other two people, of course. Other that one is a woman, who is active in Middle East affairs, is known to campaign alongside Greens politicians and is close to odious misandrist Clementine Ford – who recently tweeted about how she “don’t care” about Jewish women raped, tortured and murdered by Hamas.
The magistrate has issued two suppression orders, the second much wider than the first, in secret court hearings. The second suppression order bans: publication of the accused’s photo; anything that might point to where the activist lives; her name being published; and anything being published about a specific part of her community, or the religion of any party to the proceedings.
The Australian
I can tell you what they did, but not to whom, or why.
Police said in a previous statement that it was alleged a man was pulled from a car near the intersection of Gladstone and Cleveland streets about 9.30pm on February 16.
He was then allegedly placed in another car and assaulted and robbed before being released in nearby Braybrook, 11km west of Melbourne’s CBD, police said […]
A woman, who cannot be identified, was charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, false imprisonment, unlawful assault, assault in company and assault by kicking.
A man was charged at the time with kidnapping, false imprisonment, armed robbery, threats to kill, intentionally cause injury, recklessly cause injury, unlawful assault and assault with weapon.
They were both bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 31 May.
The Australian
At which point we’ll no doubt continue to be forbidden from telling you anything much at all about this crime.
As you may remember, all I can tell you about the (alleged!) kidnapper is:
Social media accounts under [redacted]’s name show frequent anti-[redacted] posts.
On October 8, a day after [redacted] invaded [redacted] and murdered over 1200 people, [redacted] reportedly posted she had “woken up to some great news from our beloved [redacted].”
In an Instagram post, made shortly before her arrest and the closure of her social media, screenshots and media reports show that an account under her name posted “[T]here are words that burn the wildest flames in the deepest pits of my heart and will only ever be extinguished when [redacted] takes the [redacted] from every single oppressor to walk this earth.”
MSN
And that’s all I can still tell you.
Just be thankful I’m allowed to say even this much. Otherwise, the crime would be disappeared faster than a Soviet commissar.