Australia fast tracking the first of its kind machete ban after an attack on the weekend

A battle involving The Mashes at a Melbourne shopping center prompted an Australian state to follow the country’s first ban on the sale of weapons.

The ban – to start in Victoria this Wednesday, instead of September – comes after two bands attacked each other at the Northland Mall in Preston on Sunday afternoon. Male, 20, stays in a hospital in serious condition.

Victoria’s Prime Minister said the ban would “suffocate deliveries”, adding “the community should not handle these weapons in their shopping malls – neither our police.”

Two boys, aged 16 and 15, were charged with an affair on Sunday, intentionally caused injury and possession and use of a controlled weapon.

On Monday, police said two men, aged 20 and 18, were also arrested and interviewed. All four people were known to police before.

“It was a planned battle between two rival youth gangs, without injuring innocent observers,” said deputy commissioner David Clayton.

“Fortunately, these events are not very common in Victoria,” he said, adding that the youth crime with a knife is “rare” but “frightening”.

Clayton said one in 10 knife crimes in the country was committed by young people and often happened in public places.

The emergency services were summoned to the Shopping Center in Preston – about 11 km (seven miles) north of Melbourne – shortly after 14:30 local time (05:30 BST) on Sunday after reports of up to 10 people.

Police said the investigation “remains” and more arrests are expected. Three of the four machetes used during the attack were seized, police said.

Victoria Prime Minister Jacinta Allen described the attack as “horrifying”.

“We should never leave the places where we get together – where families gather, meet, shop, enjoy the tranquility of their weekend – to become the places we are afraid of,” Alan said at a press conference.

“It took the United Kingdom for 18 months to ban the machete and we were moving to do it within six months,” she added.

In March, Victoria announced legislative changes to the Law on Weapons Control, which makes the sale or possession of a machete illegally, with the new law starting in September.

The ban covers machetes, which are widely defined as “cutting blade knives longer than 20 cm.” It does not include knives used mainly in kitchens.

A quarterly amnesty of September means that anyone with a machete can put them in specially defined boxes of police departments.

Police also thanked a man who detained one of the alleged offenders until the police arrived, saying he “did exceptional work”, but added that they did not encourage the public to get involved in such incidents.

In England and Wales, the Zombie -style knives and machete machete Introduced last SeptemberMaking it illegally possessing, doing, transporting or selling a wide range of “statements” knives preferred by criminal gangs.