A Sydney man who allegedly offered the pistol utilized in a deadly terrorist plot in opposition to police shared photographs of ISIS beheadings and suicide bombings and referred to the “enemies of Allah,” a jury has been informed.
Mustafa Dirani is accused of conspiring with others to do an act of terrorism which led to the deadly capturing of police accountant Curtis Cheng exterior the NSW Police Pressure headquarters in Parramatta at 4.30pm on October 2, 2015.
Dirani additionally faces a back-up cost of supplying a firearm to an unauthorized particular person. He has pleaded not responsible to each expenses, claiming he had no involvement in any terrorist conspiracy.
As a NSW Supreme Courtroom retrial kicked off Wednesday, crown prosecutor David Staehli SC stated months earlier than the assault, Dirani had made extremist posts in a WhatsApp group chat with associates together with Raban Alou that confirmed he was considering a terrorist assault.
“He posted numerous photographs and a few audio information … which referred to beheadings and suicide bombs carried out by ISIS,” Mr Staehli stated.
Responding to a June 2015 invitation by federal police to Muslims to have a good time Eid collectively, Dirani is alleged to have written: “That evening we’ll see the apostates taking the enemies of Allah as allies.”
A police search of Dirani’s Marsfield dwelling after Mr Cheng’s homicide discovered CDs of Islamic music generally known as nasheeds, a few of which contained extremist content material, in addition to a sequence of books concerning the formation of Islamic State, the jury heard.
Mr Cheng was shot at the back of the pinnacle by 15-year-old Farhad Mohammad who had walked to the police headquarters from Parramatta Mosque.
The teenager, wearing conventional Islamic clothes, was killed after participating in a gunfight with police safety guards.
A bloodstained be aware in Mohammad’s handwriting was discovered on his physique.
“Oh you disbelievers, know your safety means nothing to us,” he wrote.
“Quickly by the desire of God exalted, your nights will flip into nightmares, your days into hell.”
Mohammad’s older sister left Australia the day earlier than the assault, heading to Syria the place she met her future husband, an assault planner for Islamic State. The couple have been killed in a deadly drone strike by American forces 5 months later.
Mobiles owned by Mohammad and his sister have been discovered beneath a public rest room door in an house subsequent door to Alou’s household dwelling in Wentworthville, the jury heard.
On the day of the assault, Dirani and Alou met at Parramatta Mosque. Alou obtained a cellphone name from Talal Alameddine the place they mentioned the “handover of one thing,” Mr Staehli informed the jury.
Quickly after, Alou and Dirani took separate automobiles to Jones Park the place they met Alameddine. The three males then drove to Warwick Highway in Merrylands close to Alameddine’s home.
Alou and Dirani then drove to Merrylands Park the place they have been once more met by Alameddine. It was potential, however not definitively confirmed, that one thing was handed over at this second, Mr Staehli stated.
After Alameddine cycled away, the remaining two males drove to Alou’s Wentworthville house the place a white envelope was allegedly taken out of Dirani’s automobile.
Dirani then drove again to Marsfield, and Alou returned to Parramatta Mosque the place it’s alleged that he handed the pistol to Mohammad within the ladies’s prayer corridor.
Mr Staehli acknowledged the Crown’s case in opposition to Dirani was circumstantial however pointed to proof from a listening system in Alou’s Toyota, cellphone intercepts from Alou’s cellphone and police surveillance because the pair drove by means of western Sydney on the day of the assault.
The inferences from this proof would depart no various aside from that Dirani was concerned in a terrorist plot, the barrister stated.
The listening to in entrance of Justice Deborah Sweeney continues on Thursday.
