{"id":17586,"date":"2026-06-05T05:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17586"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:38:04","slug":"bondi-beach-terror-attack-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed-charged-with-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17586","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach terror attack hero Ahmed Al Ahmed charged with assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/582870\/ahmed-al-ahmed-recounts-how-he-disarmed-one-of-the-gunmen-in-bondi-beach-terrorist-attack\">Bondi Beach terror attack hero<\/a>\u00a0Ahmed Al Ahmed has been charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC understands Ahmed, 44, is accused of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/581887\/parents-of-man-who-wrestled-gun-from-bondi-beach-shooter-call-son-a-hero\">assaulting his father<\/a>\u00a0during an incident at a home in Bankstown in Sydney&#8217;s south-west in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Wednesday 3 June 2026 a 44-year-old man was served with a Court Attendance Notice for common assault (DV) and stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (domestic),&#8221; NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in Bankstown Local Court on 29 July.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed told the ABC of the alleged incident: &#8220;It&#8217;s fake information \u2026 it&#8217;s not true at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any information at all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his main focus was looking after his health and had more operations planned on his arm to address injuries sustained in the 14 December terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was praised for his actions when he was seen in footage from the Bondi Beach terror attack wrestling a rifle from gunman Sajid Akram.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot multiple times after the altercation and required multiple surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was hailed as a hero by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as vision of his actions was seen across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; ABC<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bondi Beach terror attack hero\u00a0Ahmed Al Ahmed has been charged with assault. The ABC understands Ahmed, 44, is accused of\u00a0assaulting his father\u00a0during an incident at a home in Bankstown in Sydney&#8217;s south-west in March. &#8220;On Wednesday 3 June 2026 a 44-year-old man was served with a Court Attendance Notice for common assault (DV) and stalk\/intimidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17588,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions\/17588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}