Teen who attacked Sydney church with knife showed no signs of radicalisation, father says

He had shown no signs of radicalisation, the father of the teenager who attacked a Sydney church with a knife on Monday said. This is what an official of his community said today, with the police explaining why they described the incident as “terrorist”. The bishop as well as several other people who were in the church have been injured and remain in the hospital, although their lives are not in danger. The young perpetrator was arrested and is being treated at the same hospital, where he will remain for a few more days. The attack on Monday night, which injured Bishop Mar Marin Emmanuel of the Assyrian Church of Christ the Good Shepherd, is being treated by New South Wales police as a “terrorist” act motivated by religious extremism. The secretary of the Lebanese Muslim Union, Gamel Heir, told Reuters that the 16-year-old's father had not noticed any signs of radicalization in his son. “He said that apart from the reaction to him (…) there were no signs of radicalization,” he stressed […]
Source: News Beast

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