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Oz averts disaster
The heavy police presence at several Sydney beachside suburbs at the weekend averted a potential disaster, Assistant Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has said. More than 2,000 police were on duty as beachgoers heeded police warnings to stay away from the flashpoint areas of Cronulla, Coogee, Bondi and Maroubra, where police had established partial lockdowns. Police wanted to avoid a repeat of the December 11 North Cronulla race riots and the apparent retaliatory attacks that followed.

Mr Scipione said the massive police numbers at the weekend were justified with "evidence of white supremacist-type activities". Officers attached to Operation Seta arrested 18 people overnight, including five men caught in Brighton-le-Sands with a 25-litre drum of petrol and equipment used to allegedly make fire bombs. It is understood the men, who were found with commando-style utility belts, dust helmets, police scanners and portable radios, are attached to a white supremacist group. Their arrest during a routine car check led police to close off the southern bayside suburb to all but residents of the area.

A 17-year-old male from Keiraville, near Wollongong, was later charged with being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and is due to face Sutherland Local Court on January 17. Three other people are due to appear in Waverley Local Court including a 19-year-old from Carlingford and an 18-year-old from Dandenong, in Victoria. The pair were allegedly caught with petrol bombs on a public bus bound for Bondi following a tip-off from the driver. The third person to face court is a 21-year-old Narwee man charged over his alleged role in the North Cronulla riots on December 11. He was charged with two counts of riot and affray. A 19-year-old Long Jetty man will also appear in Wyong Local Court, north of Sydney, after being charged with affray overnight.
affray, a noisy fight. Can Mohammedanism be considered a white supremicist group?
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