A 17 -year -old teenager who He has tried to embark armed and forcibly on an airplane at the Avalon airport, in Australia, It has been reduced by a group of passengers and crew members and subsequently arrested by security forces, without for now have transcended details about the suspect’s motivations.
The Victoria State Police indicated in a statement that the presence of agents was claimed in the place after “a male entered a commercial flight with a firearm”, which turned out to be a shotgun, before stating that he would have managed to access the place after manipulating the safety fence in the facilities.
“The police located two backpacks and a vehicle that belonged to the young man”he stated, before specifying that the artifiers analyzed these objects “as a precautionary measure.” “Fortunately, no one has been injured in the incident,” he added.
He also stressed that the adolescent, resident in Ballart, “is in custody and will be interrogated by the police.” “Research around the incident is still underway, but there is no active threat to the community,” he added.
According to the information collected by the Australian news agency AAP, the plane was preparing at Avalon airport, the second most important in Victoria, to take off the city of Sydney.
The Superintendent of the Victoria Police, Michael Reid, has acknowledged that “it has been a terrifying incident for the passengers of the plane”, while applauding “the courage of passengers who were able to reduce” to the suspect, whose identity has not transcended for the moment.
Reid has stressed that the authorities are in contact with officers of the anti -terrorism agency to analyze the event, although he stressed that for now it is too early to make an assessment on the motivations of the detainee.
