Suspect in mass shooting at Bondi Beach Jewish festival appears in court

SYDNEY (AP) — A antheral accused of sidesplitting 15 radical successful a wide shooting astatine a Jewish festival connected Sydney's Bondi Beach appeared successful tribunal Monday for the archetypal clip since his merchandise from the hospital.

Naveed Akram appeared successful Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court via a video nexus from the maximum information Goulburn Correctional Center 200 kilometers (120 miles) away.

He did not participate pleas to the charges against him, including execution and committing a violent act. The little tribunal quality focused connected extending a gag bid that suppresses the identities of victims and survivors of the onslaught who person not chosen to place themselves publicly.

Defense lawyer Ben Archbold told reporters extracurricular tribunal that Akram was doing arsenic good arsenic could beryllium expected and it was excessively aboriginal to bespeak immoderate volition of pleas.

Akram, 24, was wounded and his begetter Sajid Akram, 50, was killed successful a gunbattle with constabulary aft the onslaught connected a Hanukkah solemnisation astatine the formation Dec. 14.

The younger Akram is adjacent scheduled to look successful tribunal April 9.

The constabulary probe is 1 of 3 authoritative inquiries examining Australia’s worst alleged violent onslaught and the nation’s worst wide shooting successful 29 years.

One involves the interactions betwixt instrumentality enforcement and quality agencies earlier the onslaught that was allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group.

A royal commission, the highest signifier of nationalist inquiry, volition analyse the nature, prevalence and drivers of antisemitism mostly arsenic good arsenic the circumstances of the Bondi shooting.

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