It’s been a year since terror reigned on Sydney’s streets after an unhinged gunman took hostages at the Lindt Café at Martin Place, sending the city into lockdown.
It’s been 52 weeks since Katrina Dawson said goodbye to her husband and three children, unknowingly for the last time.
It’s been 365 days since Tori Johnson went missing from the lives of his parents, siblings and partner of 14 years.
Tonight, crowds have gathered at the scene of the crime to honour the victims with a twilight service.
In an emotional interview on The Project before the memorial, Tori’s sister Camille Piazza remembered her “incredibly gentle, generous, kind” brother, who was a manager at the Lindt Café.
“He always put everyone before himself,” she said.
“He was just my big brother and everything that came out from the siege and what he did for other people that was just innately Tori. That’s just him.”
Camille said she was living in Paris when she received the horrible news about Tori and couldn’t bring herself to visit the scene of his death until Sunday night.
“I found myself out at the front of that café… and I felt very heavy. I didn’t understand why I was there until I went inside,” she said.
“There were three of the people that were there with Tori that night and I just thought I was meant to come and I had to meet them and I embraced them, and they embraced me.”
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For all this we have the humanitarian (ehh self destruction) program to thank.