Officers from the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team have been executing search warrants in Sydney as the fallout continues from the stabbing of a church bishop.
Counter-terrorism police have raided multiple Sydney properties a little over a week after a bishop was stabbed during a live-streamed church sermon. NSW Police said a series of search warrants had been executed in the city on Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team. "There is no current threat to public safety and no connection to Anzac Day commemorations," police said in a statement.
The counter-terrorism squad is made up of state and federal police, as well as officials from ASIO and the NSW Crime Commission. The execution of the search warrants follows a terrorism charge being laid against a 16-year-old over the attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley on the night of 15 April. The stabbing, which investigators say was religiously motivated, left Assyrian bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and priest Isaac Royel injured before the attacker was subdued.
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