Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the Croydon Park shooter appearing in court

A man who allegedly sprayed up to 50 bullets on police in Sydney’s inner west has been charged with a string of offences.

Artemios Mintzas, 60, allegedly shot 'indiscriminately' at passing vehicles, including police vehicles in Croydon Park on Sunday evening.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says police revealed there were no drugs involved, nor a clear ideology. 

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International correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business. I mean, let's be clear what
he is telling them to do some cultural appropriation and
also sit in the sun and get a real intense burn.
So there's a lot of people who are going to
be very upset about what we said. Murrayold's Ossie correspondents
with us Allo muz afternoon. Heather, So that Sydney shooters

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appeared in court? Is he yes? He has sixty year
old man Temios mints Us in court with his family.
Did not apply for bail. He'll be back in court
again in December. He's facing twenty five charges, eighteen of
them shooting with intent to murder. So it couldn't get
much more serious than this, and then at least fifty bullets.

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They are still trying to work out precisely how many
shots were fired in this completely bizarre and random event.
I mean, police made it very clear before any court
appearance there were no drugs involved. As best as they
can tell, the guy wasn't drunk. They didn't find any
ideology that would be driving this. There was no manifesto

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saying I want the world to stop or whatever. So
it's just a real mystery at this stage. So he's
been remanded in custody and no doubt between now on
the start of December, please are going to try and
work out just why he's pulled this weird stunt. I mean,
there's one guy in hospital still shot through the neck
and shoulder as he drove. Pay was the passenger in

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the car just driving. It's a very busy road. It's
not quite Kerrang a happy road, but it's not far short.
It's a very very busy artery. So this guy's gone
bang bang bang for nearly two hours. Why the crops
didn't lob a rocket propelled grenade through the window of
the apartment, I don't know, but took him a long
time to get this guy into custody. So all these
questions yet to be answered. As I said, one guy

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stid in hospital, sixteen others were treated for flying glass
mass What is the graffiti that's been sprayed in Melbourne?
I was disgusting. It says glory to Humas in dirty,
great big letters that cannot be missed from the street.
And of course it Today is the second anniversary of
the Hummas attack in Israel. Twelve hundred dead, two hundred

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and fifty taken hostage. So it's the last thing anyone
wants to see over here. Some idiots are out and
about discussing and condemned by the government, by the opposition.
Everybody who's got half a brain will condemn that sort
of that sort of graffiti, you know. And we're not
immune here in Sydney. I mean it was down in

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Melbourne tonight. In Sydney. There's a Glory to our Martyrs
demonstration been organized out for the western suburbs at or
Southwest Sydney Bankstown. The Premier, Chris men said, terrible timing.
Come on use any other of the three hundred and
sixty four days of the year. And this afternoon New
South Wales police in the Supreme Court trying to block

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a march this Sunday that's proposed to start from the
center of town and end up at the Sydney Opera House.
Police say on public safety grounds and simply can't be
allowed to happen. A busy Sunday afternoon, lovely Sunday afternoon
spring in Sydney. The Opera House has got ticketed events,
it's got that lovely opera bar there, you'll have people
having lunch. I don't want ten thousand lunatics descending on

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the place and you know and making a ruckus Police
Salersten sort out some other endpoint for your march and
we'll facilitate that. But the Opera house must be off
limits for public safety. Interesting muzz. Thank you as always
appreciate talking to you. Murray Old's Australia correspondent. For more
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