Alleged Bondi gunmen threw ‘tennis ball bomb’, new paperwork say

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The gunmen who allegedly carried out a lethal assault on a Jewish competition at Bondi Seaside final week threw 4 undetonated explosives firstly of the assault, together with a "tennis ball bomb", in line with newly launched paperwork.

Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with dozens of offences together with 15 counts of homicide over the assault at a Hanukkah celebration on 14 December. Akram, who was shot by police in the course of the assault, was launched from hospital on Monday and transferred to a jail.

The second alleged gunman, his father Sajid Akram, was shot useless.

The pair recorded a video manifesto in October wherein they sit in entrance of the Islamic State group flag, in line with police paperwork.

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The Akrams "meticulously deliberate this terrorist assault for a lot of months", police alleged. Movies discovered on Naveed's telephone confirmed the pair have been motivated by "violent extremist ideology" linked to the Islamic State group.

They embody one video wherein the pair sit in entrance of an Islamic State flag and element their motivation for the Bondi assault and condemn "the acts of 'Zionists'", police alleged. Naveed additionally seems to recite a passage from the Quran in Arabic within the video, police alleged.

One other video allegedly confirmed the pair conducting firearms coaching in what police consider to be rural New South Wales in October. "The Accused and his father are seen all through the video firing shotguns and transferring in a tactical method," police alleged.

A short lived suppression order had been made on the actual fact sheet final week to guard the identities of the survivors of the assault. The order was revoked on Monday after an software to the New South Wales Native Court docket by media firms though the names of most survivors have been redacted.

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CCTV recorded at Bondi seashore two days forward of the assault additionally confirmed the Akrams driving to the realm and finishing up reconnaissance, police alleged.

"The Accused and his father, S Akram, are seen to exit the automobile and stroll alongside the footbridge, being the identical place the place they attended two days later and shot at members of the general public," police wrote.

CCTV additionally captured the pair leaving rented lodging within the Sydney suburb of Campsie hours earlier than the assault "carrying lengthy and ponderous objects wrapped in blankets", police alleged.

Police mentioned the objects, which have been positioned in a automotive, have been three firearms, home-made improvised explosive gadgets together with the "tennis ball bomb" and two Islamic State flags.

They later drove to Bondi the place they parked and positioned the flags on the within of the entrance and rear home windows, police alleged. After eradicating the firearms and selfmade bombs from the automotive, they walked in direction of the footbridge from the place they carried out their assault, police alleged.

Three selfmade pipe bombs and the tennis ball bomb have been thrown as they approached the bridge, police alleged, however didn't explode though they have been assessed as "viable". A fifth explosive gadget was later discovered of their automobile, police had beforehand mentioned.

Naveed Akram, who was shot within the stomach and critically injured by police, didn't seem at Monday's courtroom showing.

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