Australian police shoot “radicalized” 16-year-old

According to him, there are data that the 16-year-old was “radicalized on the Internet”. According to initial information, he acted alone.

Police received a call on Saturday night from a man who said he was going to commit “violent crimes” – but did not give his name or location, Western Australia Police Chief Colo Blanch said. Minutes later, police were called to “a man with a knife running around a car park” in the Perth suburb of Wolleton.

The boy did not comply with the policemen’s request to put the knife on the ground, Blanch said. Officers then used a taser, but it “didn’t have the desired effect.” The 16-year-old continued to approach one police officer, who then fired a shot. The boy died of his injuries at the hospital.

The man, who was wounded by the attacker, is in a “critical” but stable condition, according to police. The attacker allegedly had mental problems, as well as problems with radicalization. In recent years, he has participated in a program against extremist violence.

Crimes of this nature are rather rare in Australia. True, only a month ago, a man stabbed six people to death in a shopping center in Sydney.