AFP charging almost one person a week for targeting politicians, says commissioner – video
The Australian federal police commissioner, Krissy Barrett, says police are ‘charging almost one individual every week for targeting commonwealth parliamentarians or high office holders’. Speaking at a joint press conference with Victoria police on the investigation into Monday afternoon’s attack on the Indi MP, Helen Haines, Barrett says people who make online threats against parliamentarians are often ‘absolutely shocked’ when officers show up at their door to execute a search warrant or lay charges. Barrett says the AFP had no specific intelligence indicating ‘something as atrocious as what happened on Monday afternoon’ would occur
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Brendan Nugent facing three charges over alleged attack on MP Helen Haines
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