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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty, Josh Butler and Nino Bucci

Bondi royal commission: report calls for better policing of Jewish festivals after ‘high’ terror risk flagged for Hanukah event

Mourners place flowers at a memorial at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Commissioner Virginia Bell has delivered her interim report of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion, focusing on the actions of security agencies in the lead-up to December’s Bondi beach terror attack in which 15 people were killed. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA

Sydney’s Jewish community told police of a “high” threat of an attack at December’s Chanukah by the Sea festival at Bondi beach, but New South Wales police appeared not to have completed a comprehensive risk assessment for the event, an interim royal commission report has found.

The interim report of the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion, established in the wake of December’s terror attack, found no gap in current laws that could have prevented the shooting. But it did call for greater coordination of policing at Jewish festivals and events.

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