The NSW police are continuing their investigation before charging the individual, according to Webb taking their time because the immediate threat had been averted.
Australian police have said they foiled a potential antisemitic attack on discovering a trailer packed with explosives in northwest Sydney, alarming the Jewish community following a spate of arson and graffiti incidents.
Police are “not happy” details relating to caravan packed with explosives strong enough to create a 40-metre blast radius in Sydney were leaked to media and made public.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has agreed with police assertion that a caravan full of explosives in Sydney was an act of terrorism.
Australian city's Jewish community on edge after police — who kept the incident secret until it was leaked — say they're probing possible connections to recent antisemitic attacks
The explosives located in a caravan could have caused a 'potential mass casualty event', authorities have said.
Australian police believe explosives found on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of antisemitic arson and graffiti crimes that has been waged in major cities for months.
Queensland Police are working with New South Wales after a potential anti-Semitic terror attack was foiled in Sydney’s northwest.
Photographs published by the Australian Jewish Association on social media showed graffiti including phrases such as "Jew dogs," and "Jews are the real terrorists."
A Sydney school is vandalized with antisemitic graffiti in the latest attack on Australian Jews:: January 30, 2025:: Sydney, Australia:: Chris Minns, New South Wales Premier“It is utterly appalling and shameful that an individual would spray racist hate-filled messages on a school.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes, officials said on Tuesday after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.
Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, emphasized that the operation targeting these antisemitic crimes is “just getting started.”