{"id":452729,"date":"2025-12-17T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:29:15","slug":"bondi-shooter-naveed-akram-charged-by-nsw-police-over-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452729\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi shooter Naveed Akram charged by NSW Police over terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bondi gunman Naveed Akram has been formally charged with 59 offences over the attack which claimed 15 lives.<\/p>\n

The offences include 15 counts of murder, committing a terrorist act and 40 counts of causing wounding\/grievous bodily harm to person with intent to murder.<\/p>\n

Naveed Akram remains in hospital under police guard and was represented by a Legal Aid lawyer for his first court appearance on Wednesday, which took place via audio-visual link in a virtual court before Magistrate Daniel Covington.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old made no application for bail and it was formally refused with his case scheduled to be mentioned again on December 22.<\/p>\n

A second gunman, Akram’s father Sajid, was shot dead by police at the scene.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People gather to lay flowers at scene of Bondi Beach shooting. (ABC News: Jak Rowland)<\/p>\n

Just after 6:40pm on Sunday, the pair opened fire on a community gathering celebrating the Jewish festival Hanukkah near the iconic beach.<\/p>\n

Large crowds on Wednesday gathered at a Bondi synagogue for the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger<\/a>, who had been the head of the Chabad mission in Bondi for 18 years.<\/p>\n

He leaves behind a wife and young children, including a two-month-old baby.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people were injured, including four children and two police officers.<\/p>\n

Constable Scott Dyson and Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert<\/a> are among 20 of those injured who remain in hospital.<\/p>\n

Attack allegedly inspired by Islamic State\"A<\/p>\n

NSW Police have maintained a heavy presence at the scene of the shooting. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)<\/p>\n

Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Sunday night declared the shooting a terrorist attack based on the incident taking place at a religious festival, the types of weapons used and items found at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police investigators now say early indications pointed to a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State, a listed terrorist organisation in Australia.<\/p>\n

“Police will allege in court the man engaged in conduct that caused death, serious injury and endangered life to advance a religious cause and cause fear in the community,” a NSW Police statement said.<\/p>\n

The police investigation, which has been described as “massive” and “complex”, is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Sajid Akram held a registered firearm licence since 2015 for recreational hunting and was permitted to possess six firearms.<\/p>\n

Long arm guns were used in the attack and all firearms have since been seized.<\/p>\n

NSW Premier Chris Minns has recalled parliament ahead of Christmas next week to consider proposed limits on the number of firearms<\/a> a licensed shooter could own, reclassify straight shotguns and prohibit belt-fed ammunition magazines in those weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bondi gunman Naveed Akram has been formally charged with 59 offences over the attack which claimed 15 lives.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,11329,42480,6478,207013,50,9309,207308,101,114031,207699,207698],"class_list":{"0":"post-452729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bondi","10":"tag-charged","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-naveed-akram","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nsw-police","15":"tag-sajid-akram","16":"tag-shooting","17":"tag-terrorist-attack","18":"tag-where-is-bonnyrigg","19":"tag-who-were-the-shooters-at-bondi-beach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115733737410559437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}