Siege.2012.HDTV.x264-FiHTV

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2012-06-20

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  | filename.: Siege.2012.HDTV.x264-FiHTV.mp4                      |
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  | Showdate.: June 17th 2012                                      |
  | predate..: June 18th 2012                                      |__
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  |  On the 7th of May 2009 Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant      |
  |  Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to  |
  |  serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of     |
  |  cannabis.  It was a day like any other and this was just a    |
  |  routine warrant, something they had done countless times.     |
  |  What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three  |
  |  of New Zealand's darkest days and ended with one police       |
  |  officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of |
  |   the public fighting for his life.                            |
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  |  Molenaar was a relatively unknown small-time grower and       |
  |  cannabis dealer who was also a gun enthusiast.  He was also   |
  |  considered to be a loving partner and stepfather, and also    |
  |  had the reputation of being an anti-gang vigilante.           |
  |  Inexplicably and unexpectedly he reacted with murderous rage  |
  |  when he returned home to find police in  his house.  Taking   |
  |  up one of his illegal firearms, he shot and killed Len Snee,  |
  |  critically wounded both Diver and Miller before shooting his  |
  |  friend, Lenny Holmwood, who had come to the aid of the        |
  |  injured police.                                               |
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  |  Heavily armed with illegal weapons and homemade explosive     |
  |  devices, Molenaar held siege at Chaucer Road waging a violent |
  |   armed assault upon the police, his neighbours, and indeed    |
  |  the entire suburb of Hospital Hill, Napier, firing more than  |
  |  127 bullets in all directions over a period of 53 hours.      |
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  |  The city came to a standstill as scores of residents had to   |
  |  be evacuated and others were trapped in nearby houses fearing |
  |   for their lives as police tried negotiating with the gunman. |
  |   Houses hundreds of metres away from Molenaar's home were     |
  |  riddled with bullets, some travelling as far as two           |
  |  kilometres away.  Several of these shots missed people by     |
  |  inches, and it was a miracle that more people were not        |
  |  injured or killed. Napier Police fired only two shots during  |
  |  the entire siege, and did this only when Molenaar was spotted |
  |   about to directly fire on police. Except for this incident   |
  |  they could not see the gunman and all they could do was       |
  |  cordon and contain him and try to make contact so they could  |
  |  negotiate  a solution while trying to get others safely out.  |
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  |  In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and         |
  |  devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand   |
  |  as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police    |
  |  community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and     |
  |  unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had  |
  |  witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its     |
  |  ordinary suburban backdrop.  It brought fear into the very    |
  |  homes where people felt the most safe.                        |
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  |  Siege is based on police files, statements and reports, the   |
  |  incident enquiry and coroner's investigation, and the         |
  |  eyewitness accounts of people who were at the scene.  It      |
  |  tells the extraordinary stories of those who stood up and     |
  |  risked their lives to save others, both the police and        |
  |  civilian members of the community who found themselves faced  |
  |  with having to risk their own lives to save others. Citizens  |
  |  who had to become heroes.                                     |
  |                                                                |
  |  During the siege, the media coverage of what was happening    |
  |  was so confused and ill-informed that no one could really     |
  |  tell what was going on and, certainly, no-one, either at the  |
  |  time or since, has been able to fully access the hows and     |
  |  whys and details of what happened.                            |
  |                                                                |
  |  The public interest during the 50-hours was nationwide. New   |
  |  Zealanders stopped in their tracks to watch on TV or catch    |
  |  the ongoing saga on the radio. Police from all over the       |
  |  country raced to help.  This story made news around the       |
  |  world.  It is the real story told accurately and reverently.  |
  |  It is emotional and confronting and the story of many         |
  |  unexpected heroic actions and the heroic capacity of ordinary |
  |   people.                                                      |
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