Lindt Cafe ..Sydney.

 

The gunman took hostages  at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney. He was well known to authorities and had a history of extremism and mental instability. Man Monis, an Iranian refugee and self-styled sheikh known for sending hate mail to the families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan. 

According to London-based Persian TV channel, he had fled Iran after taking US$200,000 of his customers' money in his tourism agency. He claimed that his request for asylum followed the detention of his wife and children by Iranian authorities after he espoused liberal views on Islam.

Iran's chief of police, told reporters that Monis had "a dark and long history of violent crime and fraud", before fleeing to Malaysia and then Australia. "
Iran's official News Agency states that  Iran provided information to the Australian government about his criminal record, mental and spiritual status. Despite this, he was granted asylum in Australia.

On 21 April 2013, his wife's body [Pal] was found stabbed 17 times and alight in a Werrington apartment stairwell. His girlfriend  was formally charged with Pal's murder, and Monis was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder.

On 14 March 2014, he was arrested and charged with sexually and indecently assaulting a young woman who went to his consultancy in Wentworthville, New South Wales, for "spiritual healing".  He claimed he was an expert in "astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic" services. Seven months later,  a further 40 charges were added, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, allegedly committed against six more women who had visited his business.

^{At what point would the Australian authority kicked him out of the Country?                    Just a thought.}