The Joint Counter Terrorist Team (JCTT) has made seven arrests during raids across Sydney in the wake of the alleged terrorist incident which saw a religious leader stabbed in Western Sydney last week.
Joint NSW and Federal Police operation leads to arrests of seven teens after 400 officers conduct raids in southwest Sydney
Police have made seven arrests so far and five individuals are assisting police with further inquiries. “If they were to commit any act, we would not be able to prevent that and we believed, through the investigation, that it was likely that an attack might ensue,” he said. "If the threat, we believed as of yesterday, was not so great, we would have preferred further time to explore many of the things... but we decided yesterday that we had to escalate, had to interdict, and this group had to be touched. And that's happened today,” he said.
A joint Australian Federal Police and NSW Police operation has arrested seven people. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard
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