The men had paid a cash deposit for a semiautomatic rifle, which they had planned to use to kill as many people as possible in Melbourne's CBD. 9News
's CBD, killing multiple people with a rifle, have each been sentenced to a decade behind bars.
The two brothers and their friend, who met through a multicultural youth centre, were arrested at their homes in Melbourne's north-western suburbs in November 2018 before they could carry out the attack.They had paid a cash deposit for a semiautomatic rifle, which they had planned to use to kill as many people as possible in Melbourne's CBD.
The group then discussed travelling overseas to fight for the Islamic state and devised a plan to use a firearm to kill people in the CBD.Police arrested the men four days later, before they had bought the weapon.
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