Australian police detain jihadist sympathizer plotting New Year’s Eve attack in Melbourne

[New World Explorer]

A 20-year-old Australian citizen has been arrested for plotting a shooting rampage in Melbourne's central square while it is packed with New Year's Eve revelers.

“What we will be alleging is that he was intending to use a firearm to shoot and kill as many people as he could in a Federation Square area on New Year’s Eve,”

The carnage was supposed to unravel at the Federation Square in downtown Melbourne, which is usually flooded with tens of thousands of people on December 31, celebrating the arrival of a new year.

As recent as in September, the country’s top counter-terrorism chief, assistant commissioner for counter-terrorism in New South Wales Mark Murdoch, now retired, said that despite all the efforts by the law enforcement and intelligence a major terrorist attack is “inevitable” on Australian soil.

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