Crowds pay tribute to a victim of terrorism in Melbourne

Hollywood superstar, Russell Crowe, paid tribute to "true" gentleman "Sisto Malaspina, 74, a dean of Melbourne's flourishing coffee culture who was stabbed to death during the terrorist attack rush hour Friday.

While crowds gathered at Malaspina's "Pellegrini" cafe to drop flowers and souvenirs, Australia Acting legend Crowe directed a flood of tributes online

"Il mio cuore si spezza" (my heart is broken) he wrote on Twitter in Italian, native language of Malaspina

"I have been going to Pellegrini since. 1987. I never went to Melbourne without going to Sisto … My sweet and loyal friend, stabbed in the street by a crazy man. "

Melbourne is Australia's second largest city, a thriving cosmopolitan metropolis of nearly five million residents, renowned for its cafes, bars, restaurants, and high standard of living.

The Chief Bill Shorten, a native of the city and visiting the Malaspina café since his childhood, described the murder of Melbourne's adopted son as "shocking, unreal and heartbreaking."

"I just saw Sisto on Monday morning . He insisted that I try some of his almond cake. He is an icon of Melbourne and a true gentleman. "

Two other men wounded in the attack are still being treated and are expected to recover.

It was another resident of the city, born abroad, born in Somalia." The Australian Hbadan Khalif Shire Ali, Author of the Deadly Knife Murder

This 30 year old child ran away with his family from a war-ravaged Somali child and went to Australia in the years 1980.

He was killed Friday afternoon after driving a 4×4 loaded with gas cylinders in the city center and stabbed three pbaders-by before facing members from the public and to armed agents who eventually shot him in the chest.

Unconfirmed local media reports suggest he might also have had problems with psychoactive substance abuse and mental health.

But the intelligence services knew him for his extremist views and, for the moment, the authorities regard the attack as a terrorist incident.

They wondered about it. 35 people who attended the day attack, which although brutal, would have been designed to "sow terror and cause the greatest number of casualties" in the heart of Melbourne.

Armed officers raided two addresses in the west and northeast of the city.

– Difficult Questions –

Australian authorities are now facing tough questions about how Shire Ali, known to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization for at least three years, was able to lead an attack.

In 2015, his Australian pbadport was revoked, while he was afraid to try to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.

His brother will be tried next year under two Terrorist-related charges of indictment – accused of attempting to acquire a firearm and kill people in a mob on New Year's Eve.

"The badessment was Ian Mccartney, a federal police counterterrorism official, said about Shire Ali.

Mccartney called the attack "waking up" even though it was "the EI loses its territory in Iraq and Syria, where Australian forces are part of a coalition fighting the group.

"The circumstances in which he evolved and pbaded from his radical views to the conduct of this attack yesterday will be at the center of his country's concerns." The 19659005] IS – who often claims responsibility for such attacks – said through the intermediary of his propaganda arm that the author was "a fighter of the Islamic State and that he led the operation".

He provided no evidence to

The 60-year-old witness Chris Newport, who had also emigrated to Melbourne several decades ago, recounted that he was coming back from his home. a job interview when he heard a loud noise and saw a truck on fire rolling in the streetcar. tracks before a second, stronger bang.