The letter of indictment filed by the Australian police and its details were published today (Monday). New details are emerging about the massacre at the first Hanukkah candle lighting party organized by a Chabad house in Bondi Beach, Sydney.
The indictment filed against Naveed Akram, 24, reveals that during the massacre, he and his father Sajid Akram, who was killed at the scene, threw four improvised explosive devices, three pipe bombs and another bomb disguised as a tennis ball, into the crowd. Although all of the devices were classified by police bomb squads as potentially lethal, a "technical malfunction" prevented them from detonating.
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In addition, a fifth bomb was found in the trunk of the vehicle with which they arrived at the scene.
The lawsuit also states that the two filmed videos in the spirit of the terrorist organization ISIS, which show them in shooting training in an isolated rural area of New South Wales.
The document, which includes blacked-out sections, includes screenshots from videos showing the two practicing shooting with firearms. "The defendant and his father are seen shooting shotguns and practicing operational tactical movement," the description of the evidence reads.
In one video from October, found on the defendant's phone, the two are seen sitting in front of a picture of an ISIS flag. Police claimed that the videos constitute evidence that the attack was planned for many months.
It also emerged that the two conducted a preliminary tour of Bondi Beach two days before the attack, and went up onto the bridge from which they were first seen shooting at the crowd.
59 charges were filed last week against Naveed Akram, after he woke up from a coma and was seriously injured in a shootout with police.
Among the charges filed against him: terrorism charges, and 15 counts of murder for the 15 victims of the attack.
