The Guardian-Sixth Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing victim named as Chinese student Yixuan Cheng
April 15, 2024 4 min 826 words
西方媒体的这篇报道主要内容是：周六在悉尼邦迪枢纽购物中心发生的刺伤事件造成第六名受害者死亡，受害者是一名名为 Yixuan Cheng 的中国留学生。新南威尔士州总理承诺为独立调查提供资金，调查警察反应凶手与政府机构的联系等。中国驻悉尼总领事表示哀悼，并会协助死者家属处理后事。澳大利亚总理感谢警方的应对，并悼念遇难者。警方表示，行凶者乔尔考奇（Joel Cauchi）有严重的心理健康问题，早期调查排除恐怖主义动机。 评论：这篇报道虽然提到受害者为中国学生，但总体上较为客观地报道了事件，介绍了政府和各方的反应，没有明显偏见。但报道对于行凶者选择女性目标避开男性的动机一带而过，可能有选择性报道之嫌。另外，报道没有过多提及中国驻悉尼总领事的发言，可能有意淡化中国方面的反应。西方媒体应客观全面地报道事件，避免选择性报道，以尊重读者知情权。同时，也希望西方媒体能更多关注中国方面的声音和反应，提供全面的信息。
Yixuan Cheng has been confirmed as the sixth person stabbed to death in Bondi Junction on Saturday in what police are now investigating as a murderous rampage possibly targeting women.
The Chinese national, a University of Sydney student who was in her 20s, was killed by a Queensland man, Joel Cauchi, at the shopping centre on Saturday afternoon alongside five others.
The university’s vice-chancellor, Prof Mark Scott, said the university was working with the Chinese consulate and the student’s family.
In an email to staff and students on Monday, Scott said he was “shocked and saddened” by the “senseless violence and loss of life that occurred” on Saturday afternoon.
“On behalf of the university, I extend my sincere condolences to the student’s family and friends,” he said, adding: “Please take time today to check in on each other, this is a deeply distressing time for our community and I encourage you to look after each other and access the support available.”
Wang Chunsheng, China’s acting consul general in Sydney, said he was “very sorry to hear about” Cheng’s death.
The consulate would be in contact with her relatives in China to make arrangements, Wang said. In similar cases in the past, Chinese relatives have been flown to Australia.
“There’s no sense of anything other than randomness,” Anthony Albanese told KIIS FM.
“People going about their shopping and, in the case of Faraz Tahir, a gentleman who hadn’t been here that long, a refugee from Pakistan who was working as a security guard.”
On Sunday evening about a dozen people remained in hospital. Of those, eight were women. Four were released overnight and five remained on Monday morning.
The baby of Ashlee Good, who was killed in the attack, was in a critical but stable condition in hospital on Monday morning.
Videos circulating online have shown Cauchi avoiding men and targeting women and children.
The New South Wales police commissioner, Karen Webb, told ABC News Breakfast that the videos “speak for themselves”.
“That’s certainly a line for inquiry for us,” she said. “It’s obvious to me, it’s obvious to detectives that seems to be an area of interest – that the offender had focused on women and avoided the men.
“Five of the deceased are women and the majority of victims in hospital are also women. We don’t know what was operating in the mind of the offender and that’s why it’s important now that detectives spend so much time interviewing those who know him, were around him and close to him.”
Early in the investigation police ruled out terrorism as a motive for the shocking attack.
Cauchi was diagnosed with serious mental health issues in his late teens and spent much of his adult life moving between shelters, hostels and living in his car. According to police, he arrived in Sydney last month from Queensland.
Albanese has thanked members of the public who tried to stop Cauchi as he roamed the centre with the large knife, and praised the work of the police officer who stopped him.
“It is remarkable that people ran towards danger in order to help their fellow Australians, not the least of which of course was police inspector Amy Scott,” he said.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, told ABC radio it had been a “horrible and traumatic event” for Sydney and a memorial was being considered.
“We’re looking at a more permanent memorial at Bondi,” he said. “It’s such a horrible and traumatic event for the city, maybe the families can draw some strength from the fact that there’s millions of people that are standing with them and caring about them.”
The Westfield shopping centre has been handed back from police to its owners after processing the scene over the past two days, though it remains closed to the public.
“NSW police seized many, many exhibits from that crime scene,” Webb said.
“The job ahead of us now is to examine all those exhibits, as part of the evidence. Detectives will focus on interviewing family of the deceased, which will be a very slow, methodical process. Because they’re all in trauma, as you can well imagine.”
She said overnight 50 more witnesses had come forward.
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