Man who encouraged killing of Jewish people on Facebook suffered paranoid schizophrenia

(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide man who posted videos on Facebook encouraging the killing of Jewish people has been found not guilty because he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time.

The 52-year-old man from Flinders Park in Adelaide’s west, whose name was suppressed, became the first Australian to be charged with advocating terrorism in December 2016.

He was arrested by Australian Federal Police following information received through the National Security Hotline.

The charges related to four videos the man posted on Facebook between July 2015 and January 2016, where he encouraged others to kill Israeli soldiers and Jewish people.

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