Police arrest a decorated former SAS soldier who was shown in a Four Corners program shooting an Afghan man in a wheat field. He is expected to become the first Australian serviceman or veteran to be charged with a war crime under Australian law.
abc.net.au/news/former-sas-soldier-arrested-over-afghanistan-killing/102119554Police have arrested a decorated former SAS soldier following a years-long investigation into alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
Former trooper Oliver Schulz, 41, was shown in an ABC Investigations-Four Corners story in 2020 shooting an Afghan man in a wheat field in Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan. The ABC understands Mr Schulz was arrested this morning by the Australian Federal Police in the Goulburn area, in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands.The investigation was carried out by the Office of the Special Investigator , the body set up to probe alleged war crimes following an Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force inquiry led by Paul Brereton, an Army Reserve major general and NSW Supreme Court judge.
ABC Investigations understands that a dedicated OSI team made up of homicide detectives and an intelligence officer examined the killing for more than two years.An AFP spokesman told the ABC the AFP and OSI do not comment on operational matters, as a matter of longstanding practice.
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