The 24-year-old man who allegedly opened fireplace alongside his father on a Jewish gathering at Australia’s Bondi Seashore has been charged with committing a terrorist act, 15 counts of homicide and dozens of different offenses, the New South Wales Police mentioned on Wednesday.
Naveed Akram has been charged with 59 offenses, together with 40 counts of inflicting wounding or grievous bodily hurt to an individual with intent to homicide, police mentioned in an announcement.
Law enforcement officials take away police tape from the scene of Sunday’s taking pictures at Bondi Seashore, in Sydney on December 17, 2025.
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Akram, who stays underneath police guard in a hospital, was anticipated to look in court docket on Wednesday through a video hyperlink, police mentioned.
He allegedly opened fireplace alongside his father, Sajid Akram, 50, at an occasion on the seashore on Sunday, killing fifteen folks and injuring one other 41, in response to officers. The alleged assailant’s father, who was additionally alleged to have fired on the group, was shot and killed by police, regulation enforcement mentioned.
The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Staff is main an investigation into the taking pictures, after Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon declared it to be terror-related.
“Police will allege in court docket the person engaged in conduct that brought about loss of life, severe harm and endangered life to advance a spiritual trigger and trigger worry in the neighborhood,” the investigators mentioned in saying the costs. “Early indications level to a terrorist assault impressed by ISIS, a listed terrorist organisation in Australia.”
Floral tributes left by mourners are seen on the promenade of Bondi Seashore in Sydney on December 17, 2025.
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Akram has been charged with committing a terrorist act, 15 counts of homicide, 40 courts of inflicting wounding or grievous bodily hurt to individual with intent to homicide, discharging a firearm with intent to trigger grievous bodily hurt, inflicting a public show of a prohibited terrorist group’s image and inserting an explosion in or close to a constructing with intent to trigger hurt, in response to police.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese instructed reporters Tuesday that the daddy and son traveled to the Philippines within the weeks main as much as the assault and should have been impressed by the ISIS terrorist group.
“It might seem that there’s proof that this was impressed by a terrorist group, by ISIS,” Albanese told reporters at a Tuesday press convention.
Twenty of those that have been injured within the assault have been nonetheless being handled at hospitals throughout Sydney, officers mentioned on Wednesday. Two of the injured have been cops. A constable was listed on Wednesday in vital however steady situation, whereas a probationary constable was listed in steady situation, police mentioned.
“Medical doctors. Nurses. Surgeons. Radiologists. Pathologists. And so many extra. We’ve seen humanity at its perfect, as you have labored tirelessly to save lots of lives,” Albanese said on Wednesday on social media. “We won’t thanks sufficient.”
ABC Information’ David Brennan contributed to this report.
