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| Bourke Street attack: popular restaurant owner Sisto Malaspina identified as victim | Bourke Street attack: popular restaurant owner Sisto Malaspina identified as victim |
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| The man killed in Melbourne’s Bourke Street attack has been identified as the owner of a well-known Italian restaurant in the city centre. | The man killed in Melbourne’s Bourke Street attack has been identified as the owner of a well-known Italian restaurant in the city centre. |
| Sisto Malaspina, who has run Bourke Street’s Pellegrini’s cafe since 1974, was fatally stabbed by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali on Friday afternoon in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. | Sisto Malaspina, who has run Bourke Street’s Pellegrini’s cafe since 1974, was fatally stabbed by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali on Friday afternoon in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. |
| Pellegrini’s was closed on Saturday morning, as mourners gathered outside. A shrine was set up outside the cafe’s front doors. | |
| A shrine has been created outside Pellegrini’s after the death of Sisto Malaspina. RIP #bourkestreet pic.twitter.com/NYUcCKPK5P | |
| So very sad to hear that Sisto Malaspina, one of the founders of Pellegrini’s, was killed in the Bourke St attack yesterday. A knife in the heart of Melbourne. | |
| The heartache of Bourke St. Nino Pangrazio mourning the los off long time Pellegrinis business partner, Sisto Malaspina @7NewsMelbourne pic.twitter.com/FapTD0NfZu | |
| Heart broken that we lost such a great man of Pellegrini’s and a friend to so many (including me) Sisto Malaspina , to a senseless act of violence in Melbourne. Sisto thank you for the love you gave us all, you will be missed mate. R.I .P pic.twitter.com/gjSAjgFV5I | |
| The Victoria police chief commissioner, Graham Ashton, said the force was still contacting family members and would not be able to formally identify the victim until Saturday afternoon. He said the victim was a 74-year-old man who worked in the city. | The Victoria police chief commissioner, Graham Ashton, said the force was still contacting family members and would not be able to formally identify the victim until Saturday afternoon. He said the victim was a 74-year-old man who worked in the city. |
| Considered a Melbourne institution, Pellegrini’s was one of the first venues in the city to install an espresso machine. Its proximity to the Victorian parliament has made it a popular venue among the city’s movers and shakers. | Considered a Melbourne institution, Pellegrini’s was one of the first venues in the city to install an espresso machine. Its proximity to the Victorian parliament has made it a popular venue among the city’s movers and shakers. |
| Ashton said the two others injured in the attack were a Tasmanian retiree, Rod Patterson, 58, from Launceston, and a 24-year-old security guard from Hampton Park, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. | |
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