Matilda was the youngest of 15 people killed by Sajid and Naveed Akram in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
“And if anything since the incidents at Bondi, it continues, publishings of the young girl Matilda who was murdered in Bondi, a 10-year-old, and says allegedly ‘f— you’ and ‘f— Israel’,” Kahler said.
He said there would probably be more charges.
Muamer Nukic (left) leaves the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon with a supporter (right). Credit: Cloe Read
“He seems to have shown no insight into this offending … he puts it down to free speech, but it’s not free speech, it’s completely offensive, it’s inappropriate.”
Kahler opposed Nukic’s application for bail.
Emma Kearney, representing Nukic, submitted her client could be granted bail with conditions including social media restrictions.
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She said none of the comments showed intention to harm anybody.
“The alleged offending, in a nutshell, my client is somebody with pro-Palestinian views,” she said, adding he had no criminal history.
Kearney said it was a tricky line to walk when it was surrounding political unrest and an active war where inevitably there would be people supporting each side. She said many of the comments did not reach the threshold.
Kearney said Nukic had migrated to Australia in 1993.
“He’s an Australian citizen. Prior to that, he was living in Bosnia, which is where he was born. He was held there in a Serbian concentration camp before he was able to move to Australia.”
Kearney said the maximum penalty for the offending was three years.
Online profiles for Nukic say “anti-Zionist” in his bio, and show he has worked as a senior protective officer since 2001.
Magistrate Lewis Shillito granted Nukic bail, with conditions including social media restrictions, and reporting to police.
“There is a consistency to the theme underpinning the messaging that is self-described as being anti-Zionist, that is asserted to go beyond simply that, and be anti-Israeli broadly and to be expressed as being supportive of … prescribed terrorist organisations including Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar Allah,” Shillito said.
“I think it is demonstrable from every single one of them … that any pro-Palestinian ideologies that might underpin the defendant’s commentary is wholly outstripped by the nature of the comments and the acts that his comments are said to be supportive of, including repeated and recent acts of violence against persons, including in Australia, noting that there are comments responsive to posts about the recent Bondi attacks.”
Nukic was supported by his family, who waited outside the court for his release. Nukic and his supporter, who shielded his identity, did not respond to questions by waiting media.
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