- Neil El-Kadomi, the chairman of Parramatta Mosque, kicked a cameraman
- He became irate when he was asked about Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar
- Jabar stormed police headquarters in Parramatta on Friday afternoon
- He shot accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, in the head outside the police station
- Iranian-born schoolboy visited the mosque before the killing on Friday
Published:
14:43 GMT, 5 October 2015
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Updated:
15:11 GMT, 5 October 2015
A
leader of the mosque that 15-year-old gunman Farhad Jabar Khalil
Mohammad visited before shooting a police accountant has lashed out at
members of the media, as the place of worship hands over a month's worth
of security footage to police.
Neil
El-Kadomi, the head of Parramatta Mosque, on Marsden Street, kicked a
cameraman from Nine News as he was being questioned and photographed
outside the mosque on Monday.
Mr
El-Kadomi, who denied any association with the teenage killer, appeared
to be having a verbal altercation with the cameraman when he lifted his
right leg and kicked him.
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Neil El-Kadomi, the head of Parramatta
Mosque, on Marsden Street, kicked a cameraman from Nine News as he was
being questioned and photographed outside the mosque on Monday
A
NSW police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that there have been
no formal complaints lodged in relation to the incident.
Schoolboy Farhad Jabar Khalil
Mohammad, 15, (pictured) stormed a police headquarters and gunned down
an accountant in an 'act of terrorism'
Mr
El-Kadomi was questioned about his affiliation with Jabar- who was
gunned down by police during a shoot out on Friday - after it was
reported the 'radicalised' youth had visited the mosque to change into a
black robe just before he stormed Parramatta's police headquarters.
On
Sunday, Mr El-Kadomi denied he knew 'the boy' and claimed the teen was
an infrequent visitor at the mosque, The Age reported.
'He
died and his secret died with him. I don't know if it's terrorism. What
the boy's motive is we don't know,' chairman of the Parramatta Mosque,
Neil El-Kadomi said.
'We
are Australian and we live in Australia. The mosque has no link to the
crime. The community is very shocked by what happened,' he told The Age.
This
comes as detectives investigating the death of 58-year-old police
accountant Curtis Cheng are set to review a month's worth of security
footage from the Western Sydney mosque, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The
mosque, located only a few blocks from where the fatal shooting took
place, was raided on Sunday morning 'with the full support' of community
leaders, a NSW police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
Farhad,
who is of Iraqi-Kurdish background and is reported to be a Sunni
Muslim, is understood to have been living with his family in an
apartment block in North Parramatta.
On
Friday afternoon, Jabar walked towards the nearby police station,
stopping at his school en route to dump his backpack which contained
material linked to a Sydney Islamic bookstore.
The
Iranian-born youth then concealed his gun in his clothing and headed
towards NSW Police headquarters in Parramatta, Sydney, where he shot Mr
Cheng in the back of the head.
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