Teens charged with planning attack after alleged terror cell uncovered

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Five of the 7 young radical arrested successful transportation with the 16-year-old accused of the Wakeley religion stabbing person been charged with a scope of coercion and extremism offences.

The teens were arrested aft constabulary seized physics devices from the alleged religion stabber’s home.

More than 400 officers from the Joint Counter-terrorism Team (JCTT) – which includes NSW Police, Australian Federal Police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the NSW Crime Commission – raided 13 locations crossed Sydney’s southwest connected Wednesday, including addresses successful Greenacre, Strathfield, Bankstown, Prestons, Casula, Lurnea, Rydalmere, Chester Hill and Punchbowl.

Police said they made the arrests aft judging determination was a menace to the radical of NSW.

A determination successful Goulburn was besides searched.

On Thursday greeting constabulary charged 5 of the young people. Two males, aged 17 and 14, were charged with possessing convulsive extremist worldly online.

Two 16-year-old boys were charged with conspiring to prosecute successful immoderate enactment successful mentation for, oregon planning, a violent act. A 17-year-old was deed with the aforesaid charge, arsenic good arsenic carrying a weapon successful a nationalist place.

The 5 teens volition look a Children’s Court connected Thursday.

The young radical arrested successful the Wednesday raids were each nether surveillance by the JCTT pursuing the Christ the Good Shepherd Church stabbing successful Wakeley. A 16-year-old lad allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel aggregate times during a livestreamed service. The bishop suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and the teen was charged with a Commonwealth coercion offence.

Police accidental they were forced to determination rapidly connected the young radical who were nether surveillance erstwhile it was determined the hazard to the nationalist was excessively large to proceed watching them.

“The investigations see broad surveillance activities and intensive scrutiny of these individuals. Meetings were held yesterday betwixt spouse agencies wherever grounds was reviewed and considered,” NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said.

One of the teenagers arrested successful Wednesday’s counter-terror operation.

“It was considered that the group, taxable of their attention, posed an unacceptable hazard to the radical of NSW, and our existent purely investigative strategies could not adequately guarantee nationalist safety.”

Hudson said those arrested were aged 15, 16 and 17 years old.

The probe into the Wakeley stabbing has 2 arms: the alleged extremist ideology of the alleged offender and his “network of associates and peers”, and the consequent riot that erupted aft the stabbing.

As constabulary were questioning the young radical arrested successful the Wednesday raids, their colleagues besides arrested 2 much of the alleged rioters. Both men, aged 52 and 31, walked into Fairfield constabulary presumption connected Wednesday day wherever they were arrested and charged with rioting.

The older antheral was charged with assaulting a constabulary serviceman during the riot, nary bodily harm, and the younger antheral was charged with throwing a projectile astatine an officer.

A full of 7 men person been arrested for rioting, however, constabulary judge the fig of radical charged could deed 50 arsenic investigations continue.