Author: CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-MCLAY Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 10/03/2025 | 10:35:09
AI Summary:
An explosives-filled trailer that Australian politicians described as an antisemitic terrorism plot was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax. Police say it was never meant to be detonated. The cluster of attacks targeting places where Jewish people live, work and study were committed by a very small group. A trailer was found in January outside Sydney, packed with explosives used in the mining industry. The trailer was easily found and the explosives were visibly displayed, police say. But investigators said they “almost immediately” believed that the trailer’s appearance was “part of a fabricated terrorist plot, essentially a criminal con job”. The 14 people arrested Monday face charges in relation to the more than a dozen attacks investigators believe were orchestrated. The strange twist caps a summer where antisemitic crimes roiled Sydney and Melbourne, home to 85% of Australia’s Jewish population. There was “some comfort to be taken by the Jewish community,” Hudson said.
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