An inner west man accused of a weeks-long spree of spray-painting offensive messages has been charged with more than 50 offences.
Felix Kiera was picked up by general duties officers patrolling Petersham’s Crystal Street in the early hours of Sunday morning. They allegedly came across the 21-year-old spray-painting over the top of decals supportive of Indigenous and gay communities.
Felix Kiera at Newtown Court.Credit: Kate Geraghty
He was arrested and taken to Newtown police station, where officers charged him.
Police claim he had been damaging and spraying offensive messages on buildings and political posters in Erskineville and Newtown since before the federal election. He has allegedly targeted the Greens, the Indigenous community, the gay community and the Jewish community in that time.
On Sunday morning, he was charged with 21 counts of knowingly display a Nazi symbol, 23 counts of property damage, eight graffiti offences and one trespass offence.
He was refused bail to appear at Parramatta Local Court.
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