The detained man faces charges of defending the performance of the service.
The busiest Australian Airport in Sydney caught a brief panic on Wednesday as a result of police intervention. The police arrested the suspect, one of them inadvertently fired, TASR writes according to AFP.
The police first received a report that a 41-year-old man in the check-in of the check-in of national flights is a “suspicious” report, said its commander Scott Raven. When the police approached him, he became more verbally and physically aggressive.
An incident at the airport
Subsequently, they decided to arrest him, but during that time there was a struggle and a “unintentional shot” of one of the intervening cops. The local media published images of a police officer controlled their weapon, while his two other colleagues kept the man on the ground. The witnesses of the incident talked about a loud shot.
Police commander Raven said that no one was injured in the incident, and there was no danger to the public. However, the circumstances of the shooting are investigated. The commander added that the police with a detained man spoke at the airport already on Tuesday afternoon, “in connection with several incidents relating to his behavior”; Then he left the airport after the interview.
Accusation and process
After Wednesday’s detention, he was accused of defending the police in the performance of the service and that he was disturbed by public order at the airport. In the case of convicts, the first charges are punished up to two years in prison, while the second is a fine of $ 3,000.
The man from the Australian state was released on bail. The process will start in September. Sydney airport returned to normal operation after the incident.
