A 15-year-old boy charged with plotting a terrorist attack in Sydney was denied bail on Friday in the Children’s Court. Magistrate
Elizabeth Ryan told the court she had concerns the boy would commit
an
extremely serious offence or endanger others if he was released on bail.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested during a series of police raids on homes on Thursday in Sydney.
Also
charged was Ibrahim Ghazzawy, 22, and three other men who were already
in custody, facing other terrorism and firearms counts.
They were
charged with one count each of conspiracy to conduct an act in
preparation for a terrorist act, which carries a sentence up to life in
jail.
The Children’s Court was told that police had discovered a
text from the boy to a man saying: “I’m going to get to paradise through
banana, God is great, No God but Allah.”
Police said banana was
the boy’s code word for a gun. Police seized photos of the boy
brandishing a firearm as well as copies of photos in his phone of a
beheading by the Islamic State group and cheering Islamist radicals.
He was already on bail for possessing an illegal gun.
Police
alleged the boy was an associate of a group of men charged with
supplying a gun to a 15-year-old boy who shot a police worker and died
in a gunfight with police in October outside Sydney police headquarters.
Police alleged the group including the boy, were planning to attack a police building in Sydney.
The boy is due to appear in court again Feb. 5(dpa/NAN)
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