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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n No gift articles left<\/p>\n You’ve used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month.<\/p>\n Close<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n A man has been charged over alleged \u201coffensive behaviour\u201d on the footbridge at the centre of last year\u2019s Bondi Beach massacre.<\/p>\n A 53-year-old man was arrested at 3pm on Friday at the beach\u2019s northern pedestrian bridge, on which father-and-son gunmen Naveed and Sajid Akram stood as they killed 15 people.<\/p>\n Witnesses said the man had hung a flag from the bridge, NSW Police said in a statement. Unverified photos from social media show a Palestinian flag hanging over the side of the bridge.<\/p>\n Police said he had \u201cperformed offensive hand gestures\u201d, but a spokesperson declined to detail what they were.<\/p>\n The man was taken to Surry Hills Police Station, where he was charged with behaving in an offensive manner in a public place. He was denied police bail, and will appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n It is not the first incident to occur on the bridge since December\u2019s terror attack killed 15 people, mostly Jewish, and injured dozens. In April this year, a 22-year-old man was sentenced to 12 months in prison after he stood on the bridge and mimicked shooting.<\/p>\n There has been extensive discussion about what should happen to the bridge. In the early days following the December attack, Waverley councillors debated<\/a> whether the bridge should be removed or kept as a tribute to the victims. Premier Chris Minns said he supported the bridge being removed to avoid it becoming a \u201cghoulish reminder\u201d of the violence.<\/p>\n More to come<\/p>\n Be the first to know when major news happens. Sign up for breaking news alerts<\/a> on email or turn on notifications in the app.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n No gift articles left<\/p>\n You’ve used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month.<\/p>\n Close![\"Anthony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791590773_367_7f66d78339bf177d8e83440607f90261076bb6ead344236414b45cf6935ace99.png\")
Anthony Segaert<\/a> is the Parramatta bureau chief at The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously an urban affairs reporter.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 10, 2026 \u2014 8:09am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-922412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}