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A teenage boy has been charged with planning to carry out a terrorist attack on a local school, after police investigated him over threatening a business north of Brisbane with a knife.
Police were called to a business on Saltwater Creek Road in Maryborough on Thursday last week following reports that a person armed with a knife was making threats.
A 13-year-old boy was taken into custody and charged with offences including entering a premise with intent, going armed to cause fear and making threats.
Police from the Counter Terrorism Investigation Group then searched another address in Maryborough, where they seized electronic devices allegedly containing violent and extremist material.
The boy is the first Queenslander charged under the government’s new anti-hate laws.
He is scheduled to appear in the Hervey Bay Children’s Court later this week.
Acting Detective Superintendent Jason Hindmarsh said the teen had made threats to a local school, and would face further charges of planning to cause death or grievous bodily harm and possession of violent extremist material.
More to come.
