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Autistic Teen Released Under 12-Month Supervision After Synagogue Threat And Extremist Posts

The outcome intensifies scrutiny of an AFP undercover operation that a magistrate said encouraged his radicalisation.

Overview

  • A Children's Court ordered 12 months of strict supervision and released the 18-year-old after 357 days in custody.
  • The teenager pleaded guilty to threatening the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation and to publishing violent extremist material.
  • Police said he emailed a shooting threat under the name Adolf Hitler and posted an Islamic State video and photos of himself with knives and machetes.
  • The order bars unsupervised internet use, sets a 200‑metre exclusion around the synagogue, imposes a 10pm–8am phone curfew, and requires weekly forensic psychology sessions with fortnightly judicial reviews.
  • His parents say they will sue the AFP in the Federal Court over a 2021 covert online operation that a magistrate found encouraged his radicalisation, a finding that earlier led to terrorism charges being thrown out.