Father of Sydney church attacker saw no signs of radicalism, community leader says

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SYDNEY — The father of the teenager that stabbed an Assyrian bishop during a church service in Sydney saw no signs of radicalism, a community leader said on Wednesday (April 17), as police planned to charge people who attacked emergency services following the incident.

Police enter the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church with a clergyman after a knife attack took place during a service on Monday night, in Wakely, in Sydney, Australia, April 17, 2024.SYDNEY — The father of the teenager that stabbed an Assyrian bishop during a church service in Sydney saw no signs of radicalism, a community leader said on Wednesday , as police planned to charge people who attacked emergency services following the incident.

"He said other than him being rebellious to him... there were no signs. There were absolutely no signs to him," Kheir told Reuters. "It's very devastating, the Assyrian community have come from Iraq because they had been persecuted for being Christian," said Maria, whose family migrated to Australia from Iraq in 1993.The city's Muslim community is also on alert.

 

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