Australia Mass Shooting : According to recently disclosed court records, the gunman responsible for the horrific Bondi Beach attack last week tossed four undetonated bombs, including a “tennis ball bomb” at the outset of the attack, which killed 15 people. According to the statement, 24-year-old Naveed Akram and his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, conducted “firearms training” in a New South Wales suburb outside of Sydney and recorded a video about their “justification” for the attack, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), citing police documents.
Naveed Akram has been charged with 59 crimes, including 15 charges of murder, 40 counts of causing hurt with intent to murder in respect to the injured survivors, and one count of performing a terrorist act, in connection with the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on December 14. On Monday, the accused, who was shot by police during the attack, was discharged from the hospital and taken to prison. His father, Sajid Akram, the second shooter, was killed.
Australia Mass Shooting :Bombs were thrown into the crowd.
According to a police statement released following Naveed Akram’s video court appearance on Monday, the 24-year-old and his father threw four improvised explosive devices toward the crowd at the Jewish event at Bondi Beach, but the bombs did not detonate.
Gunmen Trained Prior to Attack
Police said the couple also engaged in “firearms training” in what was thought to be the New South Wales countryside before to the shooting. Authorities revealed images of the accused firing shotguns and moving in a “tactical manner.”
ISIS Manifesto Video
According to investigators, the two reportedly produced a video in October in which they railed against “Zionists” while sitting in front of an Islamic State flag and describing their intentions for the attack.
The video apparently shows the father and son expressing “political and religious views” and “appearing to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack,” according to ABC.
Documents revealed that the couple conducted a nighttime “reconnaissance” trip to Bondi Beach just days before the murders.
Australian Prime Minister’s Vow
On Sunday, at 6:47 p.m. (0747 GMT), Australia observed a minute’s silence, marking exactly one week since the first reports of shooting. The antisemitic attack at the commencement of the eight-day Hanukkah festival was Australia’s deadliest mass shooting since a lone gunman massacred 35 people in Tasmania in 1996.
On Monday, Albanese stated that he would advocate for tougher new rules that would create “an aggravated offence for hate preaching”.
“We will not let ISIS-inspired terrorists win. “We will not let them divide our society, and we will overcome this together,” Albanese told reporters.
“As Prime Minister, I feel the weight of responsibility for an atrocity that happened whilst I’m Prime Minister, and I’m sorry for what the Jewish community and our nation as a whole have experienced,” he stated.
“The government will work every day to protect Jewish Australians, to protect the fundamental right as Australians that they have to be proud of who they are, to practise their faith, to educate their children and to engage in Australian society in the fullest way possible,” he stated.
Crackdown on Firearms
Premier Chris Minns said that the New South Wales government’s proposed gun control legislation would be the strictest in Australia when it was presented to Parliament on Monday.
One of the new limitations would be need Australian citizenship in order to be eligible for a guns license. Sajid Akram, an Indian national with a permanent resident visa to Australia, would not have been included in that.
Six rifles and shotguns were also lawfully possessed by Sajid Akram. A maximum of four firearms would be the new legal limit for recreational shooters.
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