The arrest of 7 teenagers in connection with the attack on the archbishop of the Sydney church

report Mehr News Agency According to the Straits Times, Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Department arrested seven teenagers during several raids related to the recent terrorist attacks in this country.

Australian anti-terrorism police officials have claimed that this “network” was probably preparing an attack. More than 400 police officers were involved in the search of 13 locations in Sydney after the stabbing attack on the archbishop of an Assyrian church in Sydney, Australia on April 15.

Following the incident on April 15, a 16-year-old teenager was arrested, and now the Australian police claim that seven other teenagers are now “detained with ideological motives as part of a larger network.” have became.” Mar Marie Emanuel, Archbishop of the Assyrian Church of Sydney, was stabbed in the head and chest during a recent attack. The police of this country immediately described the incident as a “terrorist attack with ideological motives”.

Dave Hudson, Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Police, said that the country’s police, by carefully monitoring behavior and monitoring movements, “have come to the conclusion that If they intend to commit a crime, we will not be able to prevent it, and therefore the arrest is justified.”

Australian police have announced that the detainees are between 15 and 17 years old. Chrissy Barrett, a counter-terrorism expert at the Australian Federal Police, said that the network “shares a common violent extremist ideology.”