Federal police officers investigate a residential premises as part of counter-terrorism raids in Seabrook in Melbourne. Photo / AAP
A family caught up in Australia's biggest counter-terrorism operation is reportedly set to launch legal action, claiming to have been unfairly targeted.
The brothers, aged 15 and 14, and their mother have told Fairfax Media they were mistreated as police took 12 hours to search their home in Sydney's southwest
but found nothing.
Using the name Mohamed, the older of the brothers says he was woken at 4.30am by men in balaclavas who bashed the door in and dragged his mother out of bed without giving her a chance to cover herself.
Mohamed claims she was also punched because she tried to resist, and that he and his brother were handcuffed during the ordeal.
"They bought in dogs to smell the place, they bought in metal detectors, they scratched the doors, they dug up the backyard, they looked through all the books and they found nothing," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
