Four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people days after a bishop was stabbed in a Sydney church, according to police documents
Police alleged they all “adhered to a religiously motivated, violent extremist ideology” and were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy charged with stabbing Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on April 15 as a church service was being streamed online. Gun ownership is heavily restricted in Australia under tough national laws, but there is a black market for firearms in Sydney.
The 16-year-old allegedly responded, “We’re gonna be planning for a while … we prefer to escape, but whatever happens, it’s the qadr of Allah,” the newspapers reported. A man places flowers outside the Christ the Good Shepherd church. The bishop injured in the attack gave his first sermon since the stabbing