Bondi Confronts Aftermath of Beach Attack as Crime Scene Reopens

Floral tributes left by mourners at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 17.

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The gray arched footbridge, just a few meters from the grassy park where Jewish people gathered to celebrate Hanukkah last Sunday, gave the Bondi Beach gunmen an elevated vantage point over the crowd they attacked.

Police on Thursday peeled back the metal barriers that had surrounded the scene of Australia’s worst-ever terror incident, allowing the public to enter the area for the first time since the massacre that left 15 people dead.