{"id":196143,"date":"2025-12-22T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196143\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:27:05","slug":"bondi-gunmen-filmed-firearms-training-and-threw-explosives-into-crowd-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196143\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi gunmen filmed &#8216;firearms training&#8217; and threw explosives into crowd, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jamie McKinnell, ABC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JW0BO1_97503f1dfbb5c7d3f62534dfe2e3caca_avif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Immigration photos of Naveed (left) and Sajid Akram as they arrived in Manila on November 1.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nImmigration photos of Naveed (left) and Sajid Akram as they arrived in Manila on 1 November.<br \/>\nPhoto: ABC\n<\/p>\n<p>The Bondi gunman accused of killing 15 people conducted &#8220;firearms training&#8221; with his father in a regional area and recorded a video about their &#8220;justification&#8221; for the attack, according to documents released by a Sydney court.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four-year-old Naveed Akram faces 59 charges including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act over the attack.<\/p>\n<p>His father Sajid was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n<p>A court last week placed an interim suppression order over the police statement of alleged facts, but new orders today paved the way for a redacted version of the document to be released.<\/p>\n<p>It reveals allegations Naveed Akram and his father threw four improvised explosive devices towards the crowd in Archer Park &#8211; where a Jewish event was being held &#8211; when they arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Those devices did not detonate.<\/p>\n<p>In a video mentioned in the alleged facts, Naveed Akram and his father recite &#8220;political and religious views&#8221; and &#8220;appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jamie McKinnell, ABC Immigration photos of Naveed (left) and Sajid Akram as they arrived in Manila on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-196143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}