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Dr. Xanthe Weston

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Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

So they're posting their videos of their successes, and we're literally talking like $500,000, up to, say, $10,000 or $20,000 for more serious crimes.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

But the ones the kids are doing, like literally 13-, 14-, 15-year-old kids, a few hundred dollars to firebomb a tobacconist or a nightclub or wherever.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

For sure, which is why they're doing it, because they see, I get a few hundred bucks.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

And the kudos.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

But what they don't see, and the kudos, and the access to potentially becoming one of these gang members where, you know, they think that's a good thing, but obviously they don't understand the implications, the consequences.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

They could get injured.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

Other people could die.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

People are being injured because they're throwing firebombs around and they just don't get how serious this is.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

Yeah, and we saw somebody be kidnapped, didn't we?

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

And it was just the wrong person being kidnapped because the bumbling kidnappers went to the wrong house.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

You know, this could not be more serious because these amateurs are out there being paid small amounts of money and they just don't have a clue what they're doing and they're putting members of the community and the public at risk.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

Well, it is.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

And what does that even mean?

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

I mean, is that just an acronym for kind of these organised gangs that are online?

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

We don't know whether...

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

It's an international group because obviously these jobs can be posted anywhere.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

Crime is international, drugs, guns, like all these trades, alcohol, tobacco, they're all international.

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Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

So all these networks are working in different places in the world.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

You know, it's been suggested to me that this could be a Russian group.

Australian True Crime
Why Are There So Many Firebombings in Melbourne?

that are doing this.