Navid Akram, the surviving suspect in the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, faces 59 charges.
Among other things, he was charged with 15 counts of murder and one count of terrorism, New South Wales Police said.
His father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene of the shooting.
Fifteen people were killed and dozens were injured. in the shooting on December 14, when more than 1.000 people attended a beach event in Sydney to celebrate Hanukkah.
Police declared the attack a terrorist act targeting the Jewish community,
It is the deadliest shooting in this state since 1996.
Akram also faces 40 charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder and one related to causing the public display of a prohibited symbol of a terrorist organization.
Suspect Nadeem was injured during the incident and had his first hearing while in a hospital bed, a local court in New South Wales said.
The case has been postponed until April 2026, he added.
Akram will be formally questioned once the medication wears off, Mal Lanyon, the local police commissioner, previously announced.
“In fairness to him, he needs to understand exactly what’s going on,” Lanyon said.
Twenty people injured in the attack remain in hospitals across Sydney, with one of the wounded still in a critical condition.
Police have described the attack as a terrorist incident, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attack appeared to be "ideologically motivated." Islamic states".
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Two days after the tragedy, it was determined that the father and son had been in the Philippines in November.
They were in the country from November 1 to 28, the Philippine immigration bureau told the BBC.
Their final destination was the southern city of Davao, an immigration spokesman said.
Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines using an Australian passport, while his father Sajid had an Indian one, border authorities in Manila told the BBC.
Sajid Akram is originally from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, but has had “limited contact” with his family who are still there, a police official from the Indian state of Telangana said.
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Among the victims were two rabbis, a man who survived The Holocaust, the greatest Nazi crime of World War II, and a ten-year-old girl.
An elderly couple, Boris Gurman and his wife Sofija, who were trying to protect others by wrestling with one of the gunmen, are also among the victims.
More than 20 people were taken to hospital with injuries, including two police officers.
Jack Hibbert, a 22-year-old police officer, has gone blind in one eye and faces a “long and challenging recovery,” his family said.
Another police officer is among 21 injured people being treated in hospitals across Sydney.
Thousands of people gathered on December 17 to pay their respects to British-born Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the first funeral held for the victims of the shooting.
The Jewish community criticized Prime Minister Albanese for not taking enough measures against antisemitism.
He defended himself, claiming that he had taken a number of measures, such as appointing the country's first envoy for anti-Semitism, tightening hate speech laws, and increasing funding for social cohesion projects and Jewish institutions.
Rabbi Schlanger's death is an "indescribable loss" for the community, Rabbi Levi Wolf said at the funeral.
"Eli was torn from us, doing what he loved most."
"Spreading love and joy and caring for his people with endless self-sacrifice during his life, but also in death, he distinguished himself as one of the highest and holiest souls," he added,
Rabbi Schlanger helped organize the celebration of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights.
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