Heavily armed police conduct raids related to Sydney gang violence including the Barbaro murder, and a series of killings being plotted by underworld figures.They moved in on four or five targets.
Nine men have been arrested among them Abuzar Sultani, a senior member of the Rebels MC. The other men are believed to be connected to a 'guns for hire' squad known as 'the Afghanis'.
Wow first Melbourne and now Sydney,damn the Australia is most violent than I thinked maybe will do a new underbelly season. Its strange that the ndrangheta was defeated by a bunch of bikers.
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So this guy got beat up in jail then when he got out talked shit about the guy and had to pay him 300K?Lol it doesnt sound like a gangster.Do you really think a real Ndraghnata would of done that.
Mick Hawi, ex-Comanchero biker boss. Ex everything now.
It was Mahmoud 'Mick' Hawi who began the trend in Australia of recruiting Lebanese males into Australian biker gangs.
Before that, I suspect most bike gangs would be too racist to allow Lebs.
The Muslim Lebanese (and Middle Easterners in general) are now behind shitloads of the organized crime in Australia, and I don't think they know how to be as discrete or as low-key as the Italians. Lebs like to be a lot more in-your-face, and they tend to move in groups. They're never tough when they're on their own.
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"It was all crap, right up to the moment he died" - an investigator's opinion - and epitaph - of John Holmes (Johnny Wadd)
They have legislation in Australia, basically deeming 1% clubs as terrorists, because of the infiltration by ISIL, specifically the Arabs and Muslims. They had ISIL attacks in 2015, I believe?
They have legislation in Australia, basically deeming 1% clubs as terrorists, because of the infiltration by ISIL, specifically the Arabs and Muslims. They had ISIL attacks in 2015, I believe?
Is it all Arabs and other Muslims there? Both the victim and rival behind it were if I am not mistaken.
Middle Eastern gangs play a prominent role in the Australian underworld. Not all of them are Muslim though. The Lebanese crime families mostly are Muslim (though there are also quite a few gangsters of Maronite Christian background) but there's also Assyrian organized crime and these are Chaldean Catholics.
Outlaw motorcycle gangs are heavy in the Australian underworld as well and their members are largely of British, Irish, Maltese and other European background. I'd even go as far to say that bikers are the number one factor in organized crime in Australia.
Vietnamese gangs have lots of operations in Australia and there are Pacific Islander gangs as well. Pacific Islanders are not as prominent over there as they are in the New Zealand underworld, but they're around and are largely used as muscle for the outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Ndrangheta are also around in Australia; big time operations, but a bit under the radar these days.
The Sydney gangland war (or the Gang wars) were a series of murders and killings of several known criminal figures and their associates that took place in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s.[1] A vast majority of the murders were seen as retributive killings and attempts to control the Sydney's drug trade and expansion of criminal territory.
Thanks for the info here. I’d not mentioned earlier anyone interested should look at Blue Murder. Not exactly 100% true and didnt cover everything but it was a close snapshot of the Wild West that Sydney was in those years. Cops and killers as best mates.
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Thanks for the info here. I’d not mentioned earlier anyone interested should look at Blue Murder. Not exactly 100% true and didnt cover everything but it was a close snapshot of the Wild West that Sydney was in those years. Cops and killers as best mates.
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"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green
Well-read psychopath behind six gangland murders A TOP Sydney crime boss and a young brash contract killer with a “Jekyll and Hyde” personality are behind up to six gangland murders in recent years, a special investigation by The Daily Telegraph can today reveal.The young gun-for-hire — who this newspaper will refer to as The Kid for legal reasons — has become a notorious assassin willing to whack anyone for the right price.The hitman may have 10 bodies to his name.
Police had issued a chilling warning months before Ghassan Amoun? was killed in a brazen daylight execution as he sat in a BMW outside an apartment building in western Sydney.
The gangland figure and younger brother of notorious Brothers 4 Life leader Bassam Hamzy was shot dead about 12.45pm on Thursday not long after he walked free from a short prison sentence.
Six months earlier, police warned that Mr Amoun, 35, was the next target in Sydney’s bloody underworld feud as a court granted him permission to attend the funeral of his slain cousin, crime boss Bilal Hamze.
Sydney’s gangland warfare continues to escalate as home in city’s west sprayed with bullets Police are under pressure to curb the violence believed to stem from organised crime following a spate of deadly shootings.
Gangland TV drama filming interrupted by real gangland funeral Lucy Manly By Lucy Manly May 22, 2022 — 12.00am
Against the backdrop of 13 gangland killings in Sydney’s west and south-west over the past 18 months, filming has begun on the 10-part drama inspired by famed underworld figure John Ibrahim’s autobiography Last King of the Cross.
The 10-part drama will explore Ibrahim’s rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, money, or prospects, to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul.
Actor Lincoln Younes – who plays the formidable nightclub owner – was pictured filming scenes for the new series in western Sydney alongside actor Callan Mulvey.
However, Emerald City is told that filming taking place at Western Sydney University on Tuesday was interrupted by a police helicopter hovering over nearby Rookwood cemetery where slain gangster Rami Iskander was laid to rest.
Iskander, 23, was shot dead outside his Belmore home last Saturday while his family was inside, just 17 days after his uncle Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad was killed in Greenacre in a similar attack.
The previous week saw Tarek Zahed, 41, and his brother Omar Zahed, 39, struck down by a hail of bullets after leaving the Bodyfit gym in Auburn. Omar died at the scene after going into cardiac arrest, while Tarek miraculously survived despite sustaining 10 gunshot wounds and may face amputation to his arm and leg.
Days ahead of the attack, Emerald City is told the pair were spied getting a lap dance at a Kings Cross nightclub.
Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed to face murder charge after dramatic arrest in Sydney Tactical police fired bean bag rounds into Tarek Zahed’s black BMW on Edgecliff street
Australia has a drug problem and it's that we can't get enough By Layton Holley Updated June 27 2023 - 9:19am, first published 2:30am
Australians are the most prolific users of cocaine and "ecstasy" in the world, according to the United Nations World Drug Report 2023.
The report says the use of cocaine in Australia and New Zealand remains the "highest worldwide", while ecstasy (MDMA) use remains "by far the highest worldwide".
Sydney’s cocaine wars are spiralling out of control 1 August 2023, 1:12pm
A police cordon after a gang hit on the streets of Sydney (Credit: Getty images)
The illicit moment of surreal euphoria from snorting a line of cocaine comes at a heavy price of misery and death for so many others – a dreadful toll that is plain to see on the streets of Sydney. The competition between criminal gangs for the city’s drug users has become deadly on a scale not seen in Australia for years. The latest victim, David Stemler, died in a hail of bullets in the early hours of Thursday. Stemler was the 23rd person to lose his life in Sydney’s drug wars over the last two years.
Just why demand for cocaine has skyrocketed in Australia isn’t clear. It’s not as if this dangerously addictive recreational drug has just hit our shores. As in Britain, cocaine has been on the streets for decades, and is a favourite recreational drug for middle-class Australians who dare flirt with it, whether or not they can afford to pay the steeply-rising prices demanded by dealers.
And what steep prices they are. Currently, street prices reportedly range between A$250 to A$400 (£130 to £210) a gram. Multiply those prices by 28 and the price per ounce is astronomical. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that national cocaine consumption, based on wastewater analysis, is about 5.6 metric tons annually, or 5.6 million grams. Currently, that means an upper-end, tax-free, street value of A$2.25 billion (£1.2 billion). By contrast, the price of a gram of gold in Australia currently is $A94 (£47).
July was a bumper month for bumping off in Sydney
Australian demand exceeding supply is making the country’s cocaine market a mecca for traffickers and importers, and easy money for crime gangs and families. Police and Australian Border Force estimates place the value of cocaine Down Under at up to six times the comparable street prices in Europe and North America.
The lure of super profits on cocaine here is encouraging imports not just from primary sources such as Colombia, but cocaine re-exported from the streets of Western cities like London and New York. The ‘product’ itself is reaching Australian shores in such quantities that the country’s world-class Border Force reckons that, despite its best efforts, it is intercepting only one-quarter of the cocaine pipeline, if that.
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Australian crime cartels appear to have banded together to import as much of the drug as they can lay their hands on. But cartels are cartels because they ruthlessly control their own markets. In the Australian underworld, crime lords are not economists, and normal economic – and legal – principles don’t apply. ‘Retail’ competition is not only unwanted; it is unhealthy and has turned very deadly, as criminal groups turn on each other in vicious and violent turf wars.
July was a bumper month for bumping off in Sydney. Australia’s largest city has witnessed such a spate of shootings as organised crime gangs turned on each other, to the extent that the wider world could be forgiven that Sydney has a sister city relationship with Colombia’s Bogota.
A ‘cocaine kingpin’, Alen Moradian, was shot dead in the garage of his home in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs at the end of June, his murder heralding unleashed violence spilling into Sydney’s suburban streets. In the weeks since, there have been a number of likely cocaine-related murders and attempted murders, including three shootings last week alone and a gunned-down lawyer fighting for his life.
Appallingly, one of those gun murders was last Thursday’s street hit on David Stemler. Worse, the bloodied body of the victim – a young, heavily-tattooed man facing court for drug possession – was left lying, partially uncovered, on the pavement while police attended, and reporters and bystanders gawked. Innocent children had to be protected from seeing the bloody carnage as they were shepherded past the crime scene on their way to school that morning.
Organised crime, biker and crime family violence has long been an ugly feature of Australian life’s underbelly since Ned Kelly’s time, so much so that the stories of notorious crime figures and families have been turned into films and several high-rating television series. But what we are witnessing in Sydney right now is unusual even by Kray-like standards.
Australian authorities and politicians are quick to denounce the shootings and killings as the consequences of a superheated illicit cocaine market. But other than the usual intensifying of police efforts to stop the underworld violence, and politician and media demands to invest still more billions in plugging the cocaine pipeline at the border, there are no solutions offered.
But what else can be done? While cocaine prices are so astronomical, existing traffickers and dealers will not only attempt to kill each other, but to destroy those attracted to tread on their patches by the lure of big and easy money.
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Would decriminalising cocaine end this tide of bloodshed? Some Aussies are convinced that this might be the best solution, the lesser of two evils. For most Australians, however, decriminalisation is a politically and morally repugnant step too far, with wider consequences too frightening to contemplate.
That, presumably, includes comfortably-off Australians happy to be generally law-abiding, yet flirt with the underbelly of society in order to get their drug-taking thrills. As long as they can get what they want, legally or otherwise, they don’t seem to care about who else suffers for their pleasure. But as long as they don’t, the street killings will continue.
Terry Barnes is a Melbourne-based contributor for The Spectator and The Spectator Australia
Man charged with execution of Sydney’s ‘Tony Soprano’ was best man at his wedding Sparos was best man at Moradian's wedding, and was even pictured at his funeral in July
Police ‘eradicate’ one of Sydney’s most high-profile crime gangs
The remnants of the high-profile Alameddine crime gang have been unravelled in Australia, police say, following sweeping raids that led to the arrest of more than a dozen people – including notorious rapper Ali “Ay Huncho” Younes.
A 250-officer strong operation, launched in Sydney’s south-west at 3am Wednesday, was targeting a major drug network. It followed the alleged shutdown of 26 “drug-run phones” connected to more than 50,000 alleged users.
As police cracked down on the alleged dangerous underworld of the Alameddine crew, many members fled to Lebanon.
The alleged leader of the Alameddine gang, Rafat Alameddine, has been living freely in Lebanon since November 2022 when he left Sydney weeks after being cleared of assaulting an Uber driver, The Daily Telegraph reported. Alameddine has not been charged with any offences related to the underworld war.
