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The father and son behind the attack on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, in which 15 people were murdered while participating in a Jewish festival, they were inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS). This was stated this Tuesday by the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albaneserevealing that the suspects, who initially acted alone, had two homemade flags of the jihadist group.
The president described the attack as a “meticulous, calculated and cold-blooded” actwhich has shocked the country and hit one of Australia’s most iconic places. “It doesn’t show what we are as a nation. We are a country that embraces tolerance and respect,” he said.
The chief of the New South Wales Police, Mal Lanyon, confirmed this Tuesday in a press conference that both suspects They had traveled to the Philippines in previous monthsalthough he did not indicate the reason for his trip. According to local media, they could have received military training in the Asian nation.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reports on the progress of the investigation at a press conference.
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For his part, Albanese indicated that the investigations, led by the New South Wales Police together with the Joint Anti-Terrorism Team, point to detailed planning of the attack and the absence, for now, of direct links with other cells.
However, he stressed that the investigation remains open with the participation of the Australian Federal Police, the internal intelligence agency ASIO and international partners from the Five Eyes group, an international intelligence alliance.
Albanese confirmed that the son, identified as Naveed Akram and currently in a coma, he was investigated in 2019 for possible links to the Islamic State, although he was not considered an active threat at the time.
“ASIO investigated it and it was not subject to ongoing monitoring. If there was subsequent radicalisation, that is part of what is being looked at now,” he explained. The father, Sajidhad also been interviewed then, according to Albanese.
“It seems [el ataque] which was motivated by the ideology of the Islamic State. The ideology that has existed for more than a decade and that led to this ideology of hate and, in this case, the willingness to commit mass murder,” the prime minister said in an interview with the public broadcaster ABC.
The authorities reported that in the vehicle of the attacker, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, two homemade Islamic State flags were found, as well as improvised explosive devicesaccording to Commissioner Lanyon, who stressed that the investigation is ongoing to clarify the reasons for the attack.
“We continue to work to determine what caused this tragedy and it is essential that investigators have the necessary time to do so,” he said.
The prime minister maintained that the attack had an anti-Semitic component and defended the measures adopted by his Government to combat hate, including the ban on Nazi symbols, the creation of an envoy against anti-Semitism, a national registry of hate crimes and the strengthening of immigration controls to detect extremist attitudes.
“We want to eradicate anti-Semitism. That is the goal,” he said.