Police allege suspected gunman in Bondi Beach shooting trained with father, Australian media reports
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted “firearms training” with his father in New South Wales outside Sydney and recorded a video explaining the “motive” for the attack, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday, citing police documents.
The police statement of facts was made public after Naveed Akram appeared in video court from a Sydney hospital on Monday.
The statement alleges that the 24-year-old man and his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, threw four IEDs into the crowd involved. Jewish event on Bondi Beach According to ABC news, no explosion occurred on December 14.
The New South Wales court media unit was not immediately able to provide a copy of the statement.
The police shot the father dead at the scene and injured his son.
At the beginning of the antisemitic attack eight-day Hanukkah celebration It was the worst mass shooting in Australia since a lone gunman killed 35 people in the state of Tasmania in 1996.
The New South Wales government introduced bills to Parliament on Monday that Premier Chris Minns said would be the toughest legislation in Australia.
The new restrictions include making Australian citizenship a condition for qualifying for a firearms licence. This would not include Sajid Akram, who is an Indian citizen and holds an Australian permanent resident visa.
Sajid Akram also legally possessed six rifles and a shotgun. The new legal limit for recreational shooters will be a maximum of four guns.
His son was charged last week 59 crimes, including 15 murders40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder and committing a terrorist act in relation to injured survivors.
Police claimed there was a video showing the father and son expressing their “political and religious views” and “outlining the rationale for the Bondi terror attack”, the ABC reported.
