Shock new footage emerges from fire attack on Lovitt Technologies

A chilling new video has emerged on social media claiming to show footage from the attack on a Melbourne business by radical activists.

The same social media page that anonymously posted a video from a person claiming credit for the attack on Monday posted the new footage.

“STOP ARMING ‘ISRAEL’ OR ELSE,” the caption on the new post reads.

“Footage from the cell that hit imperialist weapons firm Lovitt Technologies in Greensborough on the 5th of July.”

The video appears to have been filmed from a body-worn camera and shows a fire being lit under the front wheel of a car.

The person in the footage then spray-paints a message on a car before running away.

At least two other people also run away.

Throughout the new clip the contentious protest chant “Death, death to the IDF” is played.

The previous video, still unverified, shows a person speaking with a digitally altered voice and dressed head to toe in black.

It was posted by the same account as the new video as a “Communique from torching of three vehicles at Lovitt technologies”.

CCTV of the incident shows five people entering the businesses just before 4am on July 5 and setting fire to three cars.

“This is a clear and serious threat,” the person said in the previous video.

“If you continue making weapons or components of any kind there will be consequences. Consider this a warning.”

The person then said their motives were anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Australian sentiment.

“After 21 months of an accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people by the illegitimate Zionist entity, eight decades of American warmongering and imperialism, 2½ centuries of the most violent colonial oppression, ethnic cleansing and murder of Aboriginal peoples across so-called Australia, Lovitt Technologies has chosen its place at the intersection of these catastrophes,” the person said.

The group claimed it was targeting Lovitt because the firm supplies components to weapons companies including Lockheed Martin, BAE and Boeing.

The company previously received a grant for work on the supply chain for F-35 fighter jets, a version of which is used by Israel.

The video threatened the workers at the Melbourne office and said the group had been “watching” them.

“Every worker in this supply chain is complicit,” the person said.

Police confirmed on Monday they were investigating the previously released video and the incident.

“The matter is now being investigated by the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes personnel from Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman told NewsWire on Monday.

“Investigators are aware of a video which has been circulating where a group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

“This video is being reviewed as part of the ongoing investigation.

“Police have already released CCTV of five people they would like to speak to in relation to the incident. Each person was dressed in black hooded jumpers, backpacks and gloves.”