SYDNEY.- The Australian police pressed charges and laid 59 charges this Wednesday to one of the suspects of the anti-Semitic attack in the Sydney’s popular Bondi Beachwhile we celebrate Funeral of two of the 15 dead.
.As the investigation continues to develop, Australia is going through one Social and political reflection on anti-SemitismGun control and whether police protection for Jews at events like Sunday’s was adequate given the threats they faced.
Naveed Akramthe 24-year-old suspected gunman, was charged on Wednesday after he woke up from a coma in a Sydney hospital, where he had been since police shot him and his father in Bondi. His 50-year-old father Sajid Akram died at the scene of the accident.
The fee includes For every deceased victim, there is a murder case and a terrorist attacksaid the police. Akram was also accused 40 cases of assault with intent to murder in connection with the injured person and placing an explosive near a building with the intent to cause harm. Police said the Akrams’ car found at the scene contained homemade bombs.
According to a court statement, Akram’s lawyer did not enter any pleas or request his client’s release on bail during a video appearance from his hospital bed.
Akram was represented by Legal Aid NSW, which has a policy of not making comments to the media on behalf of clients. This is expected He remains in police custody at the hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to a prison.
“The police will allege in court that the man was involved in the acts caused Death, serious injury and endangerment of the life of others at a. to promote religious concerns and spread fear in the community.”said the New South Wales State Police.
“Initial evidence suggests that a Terrorist attack inspired by ISIS (Abbreviation for the jihadist group Islamic State), an organization considered terrorist by Australia,” police added in a statement.
Meanwhile, families from Sydney’s tight-knit Jewish community gradually gathered Start burying their dead. The attack’s victims ranged in age from a 10-year-old girl to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.
The Jews are usually buried within 24 hours after his death, but the funeral was delayed due to forensic investigations.
Eli Snaker, father of five children and known as “Rabbi of Bondi”He was the first victim to be buried after being honored with a service in the city Chabad of Bondi Synagogue.
Family and friends wept as his body was carried to the synagogue in a black coffin.
“Everyone who knew him knew he was the best of us”said one of the leaders of the Australian Jewish community, Alex Ryvchin, before the funeral.
In the afternoon, mourners filled the Chabad synagogue for the rabbi’s memorial service Yaakov Levitan39 years old and father of four children.
Several police patrols patrolled the streets around the Bondi Synagogue as crowds gathered to pay their respects.
“My heart goes out to the community today and every day” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke on the radio this Wednesday.
The head of government said the attackers had been radicalized “Ideology of hate.”
Meanwhile, questions are increasing as to whether the authorities they could have acted beforehand to thwart the attack.
Naveed Akram, supposedly an unemployed bricklayer, had attracted the attention of Australian intelligence in 2019 but he was not considered an immediate threat.
The police are investigating whether the two met Islamist extremists during a visit to the Philippines weeks before the attack.
This was confirmed by the Philippine immigration authorities They spent almost the entire month of November on the southern island of Mindanao. Region with a long history of Islamist insurgencies.
Muslim separatist militant groups such as the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines once expressed support for IS and have historically harbored small numbers of foreign militants from Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Philippine military and police officials say there have been no recent signs of foreign militants in the south of the country.
Armed with Father and son fired long-barreled rifles for 10 minutes on Bondi Beach before Sajid Akram was shot dead by police.
Albanese praised this Wednesday the heroism of a couple in their 60s who were murdered in the attack, after footage captured by a vehicle camera showed them fighting one of the attackers.
“I pay tribute to Boris and Sofía Gurman. Boris attacked one of these terrorists when he got out of the car. And that caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Gurman.”said.
Albanese also visited on Tuesday Ahmed al-Ahmed, who became a true hero in the country and around the world after he managed to snatch the rifle from the hand of one of the attackers.
His filmed gesture went viral on social media.
The Australian authorities agreed Tightening of laws that allowed Sajid Akram to own six weapons.
There were mass shootings rare in Australia since a lone gunman killed 35 people in the resort town of Port Arthur in 1996.
However, Australia has recorded one in recent years constant increase in private weapons.
Sunday’s attack also revived allegations that the country was in danger Delaying the fight against anti-Semitism.
Australian Jews at the funerals expressed unsafeness, anger and frustration that the government has done little to combat anti-Semitism.
“Do we feel safe? To be honest, the answer is ‘not really’.”commented Rabbi Yossi Friedman during a tribute to the victims.
“Our grandparents and great-grandparents, survivors of the Holocaust, came to escape the hatred and bloodshed, the pogroms and persecution.”he explained.
“We’ll find it here again.”
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