Police Had Early Doubts About Terrorist Link to Explosive Caravan, Inquiry Reveals

‘I expressed my suspicion over the motivation behind it from very early on,’ NSW Police’s Dave Hudson said.
Police Had Early Doubts About Terrorist Link to Explosive Caravan, Inquiry Reveals
Police tape at Franklin Wharf in Hobart, Tasmania of Australia on Jan. 30, 2024. AAP Image/Ethan James
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Senior New South Wales (NSW) police officers suspected early on that a caravan loaded with explosives and anti-Semitic materials, discovered in January on the outskirts of Sydney, was unlikely to be the work of terrorists.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson, who oversees counter-terrorism operations, told a parliamentary inquiry he had voiced these doubts in initial briefings with government officials.