The 17-year-old who broke through a fence at Victoria’s second-largest airport and was allegedly holding a shotgun as he attempted to board a commercial flight may have communicated with a foreign element before the event, counter-terrorism police say.
As part of their investigation, they are examining whether the boy, who is from regional Ballarat, may have communicated with a foreigner or foreign entity over the March 6 incident, when he allegedly climbed through a hole in a fence at Avalon Airport, near Geelong—about 90 minutes drive from Melbourne—before walking up to the aircraft around 2.20 p.m.
