{"id":463934,"date":"2025-12-22T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463934\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:59:10","slug":"bondi-beach-shooting-suspect-trained-with-his-father-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463934\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach shooting suspect trained with his father, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, Australian police documents released on Monday allege.<\/p>\n

The men recorded a video about their justification for the meticulously planned attack, according to a police statement of facts that was made public following Naveed Akram\u2019s video court appearance Monday from a Sydney hospital where he has been treated for an abdomen injury. <\/p>\n

Officers wounded Akram at the scene of the Dec. 14 shooting<\/a> and killed his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram.<\/p>\n

New South Wales state government confirmed Naveed Akram was transferred Monday from a hospital to a prison. Neither facility was identified by authorities.<\/p>\n

The statement alleges the 24-year-old and his father began their attack by throwing four improvised explosive devices toward at crowd celebrating an annual Jewish event at Bondi Beach<\/a>, but the devices failed to explode.<\/p>\n

Police described the devices as three aluminum pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, black powder and steel ball bearings. None detonated, but police described them as \u201cviable\u201d IEDs.<\/p>\n

Authorities have charged Akram with 59 offenses<\/a> including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded survivors and one of committing a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

The antisemitic attack at the start of the eight-day Hanukkah celebration was Australia\u2019s worst mass shooting<\/a> since a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania state in 1996.<\/p>\n

The New South Wales government introduced draft laws to Parliament on Monday that Premier Chris Minns said would become the toughest in Australia.<\/p>\n

The new restrictions would include making Australian citizenship a condition of qualifying for a firearms license. That would have excluded Sajid Akram, who was an Indian citizen with a permanent resident visa.<\/p>\n

Sajid Akram also legally owned six rifles and shotguns. A new legal limit for recreational shooters would be a maximum of four guns.<\/p>\n

Police said a video found on Naveed Akram\u2019s phone shows him with his father \u201crecite their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack.\u201d <\/p>\n

The men are seen in the video \u201ccondemning the acts of Zionists\u201d while they also \u201cadhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to Islamic State,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

Video shot in October show them \u201cfiring shotguns and moving in a tactical manner\u201d on grassland surrounded by trees, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months,\u201d police allege.<\/p>\n

At Bondi, an impromptu memorial that grew near the Bondi Pavilion after the massacre as thousands of mourners brought flowers and heartfelt cards was removed Monday as the beachfront returns to more normal activity. Part of the memorial will be preserved by the Sydney Jewish Museum.<\/p>\n

Victims\u2019 funerals continued Monday with French national Dan Elkayam\u2019s service held in the nearby suburb of Woollahra, at the heart of Sydney\u2019s Jewish life. The 27-year-old moved from Paris to Sydney a year ago.<\/p>\n

The health department had said before Akram was discharged that 13 patients injured at Bondi remained in hospitals on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3881,396,17367,356,206956,57,4222,4228,207013,15056,50,3677,13048,5343,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-463934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-bombings","10":"tag-chris-minns","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-dan-elkayam","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-gun-violence","15":"tag-indictments","16":"tag-naveed-akram","17":"tag-new-south-wales","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-shootings","20":"tag-sydney","21":"tag-terrorism","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115762165452774881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463934","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=463934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}