A second foreigner has had his visa cancelled and been deported following his attendance at an illegal rave in Queensland. The 27-year-old German national pleaded guilty to state drug charges related to the rave in Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday. He was then detained by the Australian Border Force, which cancelled his visa on the grounds of that conviction in addition to separate earlier drug charges. His deportation follows that of a French national on January 19 that the ABF said highlighted their uncompromising approach to threats posed to the Australian community by those intentionally breaching COVID-19 restrictions. The New Year s party at Gallangowan State Forest, west of Noosa, attracted more than 1000 people between December 31 and January 2.
A second foreigner has had his visa cancelled and been deported following his attendance at an illegal rave in Queensland. The 27-year-old German national pleaded guilty to state drug charges related to the rave in Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday. He was then detained by the Australian Border Force, which cancelled his visa on the grounds of that conviction in addition to separate earlier drug charges. His deportation follows that of a French national on January 19 that the ABF said highlighted their uncompromising approach to threats posed to the Australian community by those intentionally breaching COVID-19 restrictions. The New Year s party at Gallangowan State Forest, west of Noosa, attracted more than 1000 people between December 31 and January 2.
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Subscriber only A German DJ was detained by border security officers outside Gympie Magistrate Court this morning after being caught with drugs at an illegal rave in the region on January 2. Moritz Alexander Wolf, 27, walked out of the courthouse in Channon St just after 11.15am wearing a black T-shirt and jeans. Five Australian Border Force officials were waiting on the footpath outside the courthouse when he emerged, two of them wearing the official ABF uniform. Australian security officers wait for Wolf outside Gympie Magistrates Court. The ABF officers, four men and one woman, met Wolf next the flag pole at the front of the courthouse and spoke with him for about 30 seconds. Wolf was then seen consulting his lawyer before calmly rejoining the group and disappearing inside the Gympie Police Station.