A Perth magistrate has rejected an application by an alleged neo-Nazi to clear the court during a hearing into the shooting of a suburban mosque.
Bradley Neil Trappitt, 25, of Greenmount, appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court on Friday charged with three counts of discharging a firearm and destroying property.
The charges were in relation to three shots fired into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Queens Park on February 4.
Trappitt was arrested with Marshall Jacob Hort, 24, of High Wycombe - who is charged with the same offences - after police conducted raids on homes across Perth.
Hort appeared in court alongside Trappitt.
A third man, Dominic Helmut Peter, 19, of Kalamunda, was arrested later and also appeared with Trappitt and Hort, charged with one count of possessing an unarmed firearm.
Police allege Peter supplied the other two men with a .303 calibre rifle used in the shooting.
All three are alleged to be members of the extreme nationalist group Combat 18 (C18), which police claim has effectively been disbanded in Western Australia due to the arrests.
Appearing before Magistrate Paul Heaney, Trappitt applied to have the court cleared during the hearing.
Mr Heaney rejected the application, stating: "We don't do that here.
"We have open courts in Australia," Mr Heaney summed up before granting all three men bail to reappear on July 2.
Outside the court, Trappitt refused to answer reporters' questions relating to his association with C18, which police have described as "an organisation specialising in hate crime and neo-Nazi affiliated".
Originally based in the UK, C18 has chapters all over the world and is based on the ideas of neo-Nazism and white supremacy.
The number 18 is derived from the initials of Adolf Hitler, with A and H being the first and eighth letters of the alphabet.
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