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Neo-Nazi charged over antisemitic graffiti in library bathrooms
Former Young Liberal member Stefan Eracleous has been charged with criminal damage after public toilets inside Mill Park Library were allegedly graffitied with antisemitic slurs.
- by Simone Fox Koob and Nick McKenzie
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‘Back-to-back bullets’: Families caught in spate of drive-by shootings
Baryalai Rahmanzai was sleeping next to his pregnant wife when their Dandenong home was sprayed with bullets. Now he feels less safe in Melbourne than in Afghanistan.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Cameron Houston
No footage of final moments before police shooting of Stanley Turvey
There may be “tactical reasons” why the final moments of a man shot dead by police after a multi-day two-state manhunt weren’t captured on camera, a coroner has been told.
- by Karen Sweeney
Nearly 30 arson attacks linked to tobacco turf war as police probe latest firebombing
The residents of a Glenroy apartment building were evacuated after arsonists firebombed another tobacco shop early on Monday.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Gunmen on the run as shopping centre killing linked to gangs in tobacco war
A man gunned down in a Craigieburn car park on Saturday has been identified and police have announced a new taskforce to investigate the illicit tobacco trade.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola, Lachlan Abbott and Robyn Grace
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Deadly carpark shooting linked to tobacco wars, underworld figures say
A targeted shooting at a busy Craigieburn shopping centre that left one man dead and another with serious injuries is connected to an escalating gang war.
- by Lachlan Abbott, Marta Pascual Juanola and Cameron Houston
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Unmarked car, gun stolen from off-duty police officer
Images of a gloved hand holding a loaded magazine next to a gun were circulated on encrypted chats used by organised crime figures following the theft.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Cameron Houston
Festival turns to tragedy as boy, 2, dies after being hit by car in church car park
Thang Khat Sun was attending a Burmese cultural festival with his family when he was fatally struck in Blackburn North on Saturday night, 19 days before his third birthday.
- by Najma Sambul and Lachlan Abbott
Senior bikie shot in Ballarat as Bandidos staged national run
A bikie took himself to hospital after being shot near the gang’s clubhouse in the early hours of Sunday morning.
- by Lachlan Abbott
This man’s partner was found dead below cliffs. Now he’s slipped past police
The last person to see Meaghan Rose alive is on the run, and detectives are searching across Australia.
- by Cloe Read
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‘I didn’t need to try and check a pulse’
Peter was a young police officer, new to the force, when he was dragged into the scene of a bloody triple murder in a Melbourne landmark.
- by John Silvester