2014 Sydney Hostage Crisis

2014 Sydney hostage crisis is a villainous event that it happens on Sydney Australia.

On 15–16 December 2014, a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage nine customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. After a 16-hour standoff, during which areas of the Sydney central business district surrounding the site were cordoned off and nearby buildings locked down, police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit stormed the café upon hearing gunshots from inside. At least one hostage was shot by Monis, who himself was shot dead after police entered in response. Two hostages died, while three hostages and a police officer were injured during the police raid.

Early on, hostages were seen holding a jihadist black flag up against the window of the café, with the Islamic shahādah creed written on it in Arabic. Initially the media mistook it for the flag used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); the gunman later demanded that an ISIL flag be brought to him in the middle of the crisis. The gunman was described as having indicated a "political motivation".

Police treated the event as a terrorist attack, and negotiated with Monis throughout the day. About 50 Muslim groups issued a joint statement in which they condemned the incident.

The gunman, born in Iran as Mohammad Hassan Manteghi, had been granted political asylum in Australia in 2001. He had a history of criminal charges including sexual assault, and was to be tried as an accessory in his ex-wife's murder. He had been convicted for criminal use of the postal service to "menace, harass or cause offence", for sending letters to the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan in which he called the soldiers murderers.