Auckland terror attack: Ahamed Samsudeen, the man behind Isis-inspired stabbings
Catrin Owen, Sep 04 2021
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen came to New Zealand in 2011 seeking a new life free from attack and torture. Ten years later, he stabbed five people and injured two others in an Isis-inspired terror attack. He was shot dead by police bringing an end to months of constant surveillance and years of growing concern over his extremist views. Catrin Owen reports.
Samsudeen, 32, arrived in New Zealand in 2011 from Sri Lanka on a student visa.
A Tamil Muslim, he came seeking refugee status claiming he and his father had experienced serious problems with Sri Lankan authorities due to their political background.
He claimed they had been attacked, kidnapped and tortured and said the pair were forced to go into hiding.
He was accepted, and his refugee status was granted on December 20, 2013, after a tribunal found he had a well-founded fear of facing harm if he returned to Sri Lanka. It also accepted he had been attacked, abducted, physically mistreated and humiliated in the past.
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