Australia Fast track first in history ban Machete after attack on weekends

A fight with participation Machete in the mall of Melbourne pushed the Australian state to quickly monitor the first in history ban on the sale of weapons.

The ban – to start in Victoria this Wednesday, not September, comes after two gangs attacked each other in the Northland shopping center on Sunday. A person 20 years old remains in the hospital in serious condition.

Prime Minister Victoria said the ban on “stifling”, adding that “the community should not fight this weapon in their shopping centers – our police.”

Two boys, aged 16 and 15, were on Sunday, accused of appealing, intentionally inflicted injuries, storage and use of guided weapons.

On Monday, police said two men aged 20 and 18 were arrested and interviewed. Earlier, all four people were known in the police.

“This was a planned struggle between two rival youth gangs that were not injured by innocent random people,” said Deputy Commissioner David Clayton.

“Fortunately, these events in Victoria are not very ordinary,” he said, adding that the crime on the knife is “rare” but “scary”.

Clayton said that each of 10 knife crimes in the state is committed by youth, and is often in public.

The emergency services were summoned to the Preston shopping center – about 11 km (seven miles) north of Melbourne – immediately after 2:30 pm local time (05:30 BST) Sunday after reports of 10 struggles.

Police said the investigation is “continuing” and more arrests are expected. Police said three of the four machete used during the attack, police said.

Prime Minister Victoria Jasinta Alan called the attack “horrible”.

“We should never put the places where we are going – where families come together, meet, shop, enjoy the peace of our weekend – to become places we are afraid,” Alan said at a press conference.

“It took 18 months in the UK to bring a machete and we are moving to do it for six months,” she added.

In March, Victoria announced the legislative changes to the Law on Arms Control, which forced to illegally sell or possess a machete with a new law that will begin in September.

The ban covers the machete, which is widely defined as “knives with cutting more than 20 cm”. It does not include knives that are mainly used in the kitchens.

A three -month amnesty since September means that anyone who has a machete can place them in specially designed boxes on the police stations.

Police also thanked a man who attracted one of the alleged offenders until the police arrived, saying that he had “doing excellent work” but added that they did not urge the public to participate in such incidents.

In England and Wales there was a ban on knives and machetes in the style of zombies Introduced in September last yearBy doing illegal possession, to carry, transport or sell a wide range of “statements” that prefer criminal gangs.