SYDNEY: Australian police stated seven individuals who posed an “unacceptable threat and menace” to the general public have been arrested after anti-terror raids that concerned greater than 400 officers on Wednesday (Apr 24).
Police stated the people had been linked to a 16-year-old accused of stabbing an Assyrian Bishop in Sydney and adhered to a “religiously motivated extremist ideology”.
Deputy police commissioner Dave Hudson stated it was “possible” the group could possibly be plotting an assault, though no particular goal was evident.
“Their behaviour, while underneath surveillance, led us to consider that, in the event that they had been to commit any act, we’d not be capable to forestall that,” he instructed reporters.
“And we believed, via the investigation, that it was possible that an assault would possibly ensue.”
Police stated all of the offenders had been juveniles.
