1ĭespite Monis’ long history of provocative and attention-seeking behaviour and false claims, the Review found no evidence that the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the Australian Federal Police (AFP) or the New South Wales Police Force had been complacent about Monis and that security and law enforcement agencies assessed new information as it became available and in accordance with extant policies and procedures.
On 22 February 2015, the findings of the Review were published. On 17 December 2014, the Department of the Prime Minister and the Premier of New South Wales announced the terms of reference for a Joint Commonwealth–New South Wales Review of the decisions of government agencies in respect of Monis. Within 24 hours of the end of the Lindt Café siege in Martin Place, Sydney, Man Haron Monis was variously labelled ‘deranged’, a ‘lone-wolf extremist’ or a radicalised domestic terrorist. Instead, the evidence shows that Monis was a malignant narcissist whose behaviour can better be formulated as lone-actor grievance-fuelled violence. The evidence does not support the conclusion that Monis suddenly ‘radicalised’ and committed an act of terrorism. His professed status as a Shi’a Muslim cleric was fraudulent, and forensic examination of his use of the Internet and social media found no evidence that Monis ever had any contact with Islamic State or any other terrorist organisation and that on the day before the siege, he had only 12 followers on Twitter.
Monis was also charged with being an accessory to the murder of his former partner and had recently failed to obtain custody of his two Australian born children. At the time of the siege, Monis was also on bail, charged with multiple sex offences against women, alleged to have been committed whilst he held himself out as a ‘spiritual healer’. Other than demanding a debate with the Prime Minister on radio and have the Islamic State flag delivered to the café, Monis made no specific terrorist demands. Although Monis had been a prolific user of the Internet and social media, the subsequent Coroner’s inquest found that Monis made little sophisticated preparation for the siege and did not announce his intention nor did he leave any clear terrorist-inspired message or martyrdom video. After a 16-hour siege, during which negotiators had no direct communication with him, Monis shot dead one of his hostages, precipitating the police ‘emergency action’ which broke the siege. On 15 December 2014, nearly 20 years after he arrived in Australia from Iran, Man Haron Monis took 18 people hostage in the Lindt Café in Sydney and announced that Australia was ‘under attack by the Islamic State’.
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