Organized Crime Group Fabricated Plot to Attack Australian Synagogue: Police

Organized Crime Group Fabricated Plot to Attack Australian Synagogue: Police

News March 10, 2025
Organized Crime Group Fabricated Plot to Attack Australian Synagogue: Police
Sydney (Quds News Network)- An organised crime network fabricated a plot to attack a synagogue in Australia to divert police resources, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. In January, authorities discovered explosives in a caravan, initially believed to be part of a terrorism attack. However, they soon realized it was a fabricated plot designed by criminals to cause fear and mislead police resources, according to reports. The AFP confirmed no actual threat existed, and the plot was a criminal con job. The investigation, Operation Kissinger, identified several suspects, and authorities are working with international law enforcement. The AFP aims to reassure the Jewish community, clarifying the plot's intent to cause chaos and distract from other criminal activities. New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson told a news conference, “[The plot] was about causing chaos within the community, causing threat, causing angst, diverting police resources away from their day jobs, to have them focus on matters that would allow them to get up to or engage in other criminal activity.” The country’s counterterrorism unit had considered releasing information to the public earlier but it had been receiving tip-offs about other related “terror plots”. However, “we are now confident that all these tip-offs were fabricated, and the caravan plot was an elaborate scheme contrived by organised criminals domestically and from offshore“, the AFP statement said. Krissy Barrett, AFP’s deputy commissioner for national security, said the fake caravan plot had a “chilling effect” on the Jewish community. “What organised crime has done to the Jewish community is reprehensible, and it won’t go without consequence. There was also unwarranted suspicion directed at other communities – and that is also reprehensible.”

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