Teen terror suspect to be charged with supplying gun that 15-year-old Farhad
A schoolboy aged 12 is being monitored by counter terrorism forces in Australia, police have revealed.
“We’re shocked that a 12-year-old is on police radar for these types of matters”, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Jabar was later shot dead by a police special constable. New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull convened the summit in a bid to counter violent extremism.
Education department chiefs have also been brought in, as part of efforts to combat extremism among young people.
ABC reported on Wednesday that the 12-year-old boy was the youngest of 18 suspected extremists named in a court document in March.
A TEENAGE Sydney terror suspect faces another day in custody without being charged after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) was granted a fresh court order.
A control order places restrictions on where the subject can go, who they can meet, whether they can access the internet and can require them to wear a tracking device. He also declined to say where Jabar got the revolver he had used.
“Unfortunately there is a barbaric terrorist organisation in the Middle East that are reaching out through social media to our young people”, he told Nine Network on Thursday. People that have information understanding, awareness, concerns, we have to have a central point where they can respond and take those concerns’.
She continued: “If control orders prior to conviction are to be maintained and the age of application lowered to 14 years, the regime needs to ensure it contains suitable safeguards and that it is a necessary and appropriate response to the threat of terrorism”.
“We don’t know where the bottom is going to be, but obviously we’re very concerned about it”, he said. And in May, police arrested a 17-year-old in Melbourne and accused him of plotting to detonate three homemade pipe bombs.