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Australian police: "We're not saying all tobacconists are linked with the sale of illicit tobacco, but what we are saying is that people are being targeted, businesses are being targeted because the organisers police allege are linked to the sale of illicit tobacco are simply standing over them."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/tweed-tobacconist-ram...

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I have a hard time understanding that sentence.

Organizers of what? The businesses, or illicit tobacco?

What does standing over mean?

It's not clear to me why standing over would be a motivation for attacks.

Organisers of the threats to others.

To “stand over” is a verb meaning roughly to “threaten, with menace”.

But it doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s the party or parties that have undertaken the attacks.

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