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The networks had conflicting witness accounts of the execution of Tori Johnson. As they’re going over him I look down and I see him. “And for them to do that, they had to step over Monis. “They actually carried me across the entire cafe, through the front door of the cafe,” she said. She was critical of the way she was rescued from the cafe at the end when barrister Katrina Dawson was lying mortally wounded beside her. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m not being ungrateful to them, but I just think the army would have been a better – more appropriate to be handling this situation.” In one of the more emotional interviews, Marcia Mikhael, 43, told Seven: “I know there are a lot of officers who risked their lives to be there and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.”
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Seven was just behind Nine on 1.1 million viewers in the five capital cities and 1.6 million nationally.īoth programs contained fresh details about the attack, including that some hostages felt abandoned by the police and emergency services and were critical of the operation. Seven’s special, Inside the Siege: the Untold Story, had interviews with another six of the surviving 16 hostages and had footage from the network’s cameras which were trained on the scene from across the road. Woven with re-enactments of their 16-hour ordeal, Hayes’s interviews painted a detailed picture of the harrowing experience of being trapped by gunman Man Haron Monis inside the Martin Place cafe in December.