Muslim leaders call for investigation into Melbourne teen terror suspect shooting

Rasa - Muslim leaders called for a full investigation into the fatal shooting of a teenage Muslim man after he stabbed two counter-terrorism officers in Melbourne last night.

News ID: 1221

Date: 24 September 2014 - 14:17

RNA - “I think it was a little bit pre-emptive,” Ghaith Krayem, Secretary of the Islamic Council of Victoria, he told 3AW radio, expressing disappointment with the police press conference after the incident, Herald Sun reported on Wednesday, September 24.

“The police have come out very clearly and almost have said it was the young man’s fault, and I don’t know in the fall of time that may prove to be the case, but I think within a couple of hours I was disappointed.

“I think we need to allow the processes to play out and the facts to be known because the family quite frankly is really struggling,” he added.

According to onIslam, going voluntarily to meet police officers, the 18-year-old Narre Warren man, named as Numan Haider, was shot dead outside Endeavour Hills police station.

After the incident, police officers made a press conference blaming the dead teen for stabbing an Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer and a Victorian police officer.

Haider was reportedly involved with Al-Furqan, a group raided by police in Melbourne’s southeast in 2012, but had not had recent contact with them.

People who knew him said he appeared to be a “good kid” who complained about having his passport removed and about “harassment” from the AFP.

The Islamic Council of Victoria expressed “deep sorrow” over the incident.

“There needs to be a full and objective investigation into this incident to ensure that such a tragedy is never repeated,” the council said in a statement today.

“This tragedy highlights the real cost of a failure to deal with these serious issues and why we have made numerous calls on the Australian government to deal with the root causes of alienation and disaffection of people such as this.”

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