Who is the “sovereign citizen” accused of having killed Australian police?

A major hunt continues in the Australian state of Victoria for a man accused of having shot two police officers on his semi-rural property and having injured a third.

Police confirmed that she was looking for Dezi Bird Freeman, conspiracy theorist and “sovereign citizen” who rejects government and law.

Freeman, 56, has a long history with the police, and his hatred of the authority was well documented in online publications, videos and legal documents.

He called the police of “terrorist thugs”, compared them to the Nazis and tried to stop a magistrate during legal proceedings.

Less than a week before the shooting of two police officers in Porepunkah, his wife, Mali, had told a neighbor that she was concerned about his behavior, reports the age.

The inhabitants of the city told journalists that the father of two was kind and polite, but then, during the cocorated pandemic, his behavior became erratic and his more extreme opinions.

Freeman – born DESMOND Christopher FILBY – has developed a public profile for his opinions on the health crisis.

He refused to wear facial masks in stores, rejected vaccinations and has become more and more frank in his distrust of the restrictions and locking of the government – of which Victoria had particularly long and strict.

“He was anti-everything to do with that,” said a room at Sydney Morning Herald.

“He went from a fairly ordinary guy from country … A normal guy that you would see at the local football club all the time to a fairly strange guy. He fell a little a rabbit hole and disappeared and left the radar.”

The Australian media report that Freeman describes himself as a “sovereign citizen”, who generally believe that they are immune to the rules of the government.

In Australia, the movement experienced a particular boom during the 2020 codvised locking. Victoria police commissioner Shane Patton said at the time that the police were forced “to break the car windows and remove people to provide details” after refusing to answer questions or show documents.

A note of information from the Australian federal police from 2023 said that the movement had “an underlying capacity to inspire violence”.

In 2021, Freeman was involved in an attempt to pass the state minister Daniel Andrews to betray.

Freeman was arrested outside a Victoria court, where around 250 antigan -government demonstrators had gathered.

In a video of his arrest, we can be heard saying to the crowd: “They will make me (explained) of me, because I kept them.”

The betrayal affair was thrown.

Freeman has been within and outside for years, mainly to drive, some of which have been abandoned.

His conduct in court showed his contempt for authority. “Shame on you!” He shouted to a judge last year, who refused to drop his accusations of conduct.

Freeman said he was under duress when the police arrested him and acted in self -defense by filming them with his phone while he was leaving.

He argued that he feared that they were trying to stop him, which would be “an assault and a kidnapping”.

“I felt threatened and practiced … Even the sight of a cop or a cop car … It’s like a survivor of Auschwitz when he saw a Nazi soldier,” said Freeman, according to court documents.

The same file shows him referring to the police as “frignant Nazis”, “Gestapo” and “terrorist thugs”.

In one of his most sensational justice appearances, he tried to arrest a magistrate and a police officer during a dispute on public access to a national park.

“You act in an oppressed way,” he told the judge. “You must withdraw and now be in my care and in arrest. You are not free to leave.”

He then ordered a police officer to arrest the magistrate, and when the officer refused, Freeman said he was also in a state of arrest.

They ignored it.

The neighbors say that Freeman and his family live on a bus on a 20 hectare plot on the outskirts of Porepunkah.

Residents told journalists that they thought they were living with several people on the property, in a sort of compound, secured by a large door with security cameras.

The Australian media say the police entered the bus to search him when they were slaughtered. Freeman was seen for the last time running in a dense bush nearby.

The police say that they understand that he is an experienced bushman – or a person familiar with the desert – which presents a challenge for the research party for him.

“He knows the bush well and there are caves up there, so it will be a while before finding it, I think,” a neighbor told ABC.

Police warned that Freeman is “strongly armed”, and Sydney Morning Herald reports that he would have stolen the weapons of the police that he would have shot on it.

Freemans – Dezi, Mali and their children – have lived in the Porepunkah region for many years and were known in the small community. Mali teaches music to children and works in a supermarket.

In 2018, the family appeared in the Affair Affair program of Channel Nine, where they deplored their “neighbors of hell” in a previous property, which intimidated and disruptive.

“Mali and his family are all very nice and very beautiful people,” said a neighbor, whose grandchildren took music lessons with Mali, on the program.