Police outside the supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, where a violent extremist stabbed seven shoppers (Brett Phibbs/AP)The Islamic State-inspired extremist who was shot dead by police after stabbing seven people in a New Zealand supermarket had been fighting deportation for immigration fraud, officials have said. New details about the attack by Ahamed Samsudeen in Auckland on Friday emerged as the condition of some of those injured in the incident improved. The 32-year-old Tamil Muslim applied for refugee status on the basis of being persecuted in Sri Lanka, where a civil war ended in 2009 with the defeat of a Tamil rebel group. In 2018, Samsudeen was jailed after he was found with IS videos and knives, and the following year, his refugee status was cancelled after authorities found evidence of fraud. “At the time of the terrorist attack, the offender’s attempt to overturn the deportation decision was still ongoing,” Ms Ardern said.

Source: Irish Independent September 05, 2021 08:03 UTC