NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said it is frustrating that the men have been released, however the state’s law is clear on when suspects can be remanded. “It was doubly shocking because it was perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy”, he said.
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“It’s incredibly frustrating to us”.
Five guys were arrested over the deadly terror-linked homicide of a police worker after raids by more than 200 authorities on properties across Sydney in Australia.
Police officers detain a man during early morning raids in western Sydney.
The gunman, identified by cops officers as 15-year-old Iranian immigrant Farhad Jabar, could have gotten the weapon with the assistance of Middle Japanese criminals, in accordance to reports within the Australian media.
News7 Police said footage shot outside the police building shows the radicalized teen shouting “God is great”. “It’s almost like they’ve groomed him like paedophiles to do something for them”. At least three of the four who were arrested on Wednesday were also targeted in the sweeping September 2014 terror raids across western Sydney.
Jabar was a student at Arthur Phillip High in Parramatta.
The teenager was gunned down in an exchange of fire with police special constables soon after.
Police arrested four people Wednesday in connection with the slaying of a civilian police worker in a Sydney suburb that officials have said they believe was linked to terrorism.
Australia is grappling with a rise in violence perpetrated by radicalized Muslim youths at home while trying to stop others from traveling to Syria to fight with Islamic extremists.
However, Burns admits that Farhad was not somebody that they believe was a “threat”.
Though there had been a few isolated incidents in the past, Baird said the radicalization of school children was not widespread.
A spokeswoman for the AFP, which takes in ACT Policing, said it was not appropriate to discuss any specifics relating to the security of its staff or infrastructure.
Police think the men recruited Jabar to help them evade surveillance and may have played a role in radicalizing him, according to the Herald.
“Our message is we’ll keep Police Association members safe and the police commissioner is helping us do that”, Mr Gooley said.
Australia has been struggling to cope with a string of home-grown terrorism crimes involving teenagers.
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He welcomed the federal government’s shift in language in relation to extremism and relations with the Muslim community, in the wake of Tony Abbott being replaced by Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.
