Julian Hill's Appointment to Liaise with Synagogue Leaders Adds Fuel to the Fire

Four weeks after the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue – still no arrests.

Maybe police are genuinely stumped.

Maybe it’s just one of those cases that’s too hard to crack.

Or maybe Victorian police simply aren’t up to the task.

A few years ago they could locate a pregnant woman in pyjamas responsible for a random Facebook post. These days, well they couldn’t track an elephant through snow. Then again, if the elephant forgot its mask …

Anyway, if that’s the case they shouldn’t feel too bad.

NSW police needed months to work out whether they heard people say “Gas the Jews” or “Where are the Jews”.

After engaging acoustic and phonetic experts from the National Centre of Biometric Science, Deputy Commission Mal Lanyon finally announced police didn’t know what they had heard.

Case closed.

There’s another possibility. And it stinks that we should even be contemplating it.

But just maybe there’s a lack of political will to find the synagogue arsonists.

It’s hard to believe that neither the Victorian Police, nor ASIO, nor the Australian Federal Police – they’re all involved in the investigation – have come up with nothing. After a month. Really?

This was AFP Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett after the terror attack …

Let me be very clear. Do not test the resolve or the determination of the AFP (to solve this crime)

Hmmm.

Like I said, it stinks that we should even raise the possibility that the “resolve and determination” to find the culprits might come second to political considerations. And none of us know that that’s the case …