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there was a tim when criminal gangs kept their dirty business to themselves but over the last few years what only can be cakked a war has exploded .
with crime families and outlaw motorcycle gangs fighting to the death of control of
a billion drug trade
increasingly caught in the cross fire,innocent men , women and even children .
tonight we’ll take you inside a top secret police operation that’s part of the fightback a treasure trove of encrypted messages including orders to kill .
revealing this bloody gang war is deliberate and directed.
the criminal underworld was once another world to ours a place where bad guys killed bad guys
but left ther rest of us- alone.
tonight we’ll track how gangland vendettas have turned into all at war
spiraling violence spilling into the suburbs
now few are safe.
when bullets fly..
mayhem and destruction over a drug trade
worth billions.
most of us are still surpised at the brazen way drug gangs operate , the shootings day or night doesn’t matter.
attacks on houses
attacks on individuals in broad daylight
there’s a complete disregard for public safety it’s a complete disregard for the community and is also about dominance and intimidation .
later in our exclusive report austrialian federal police takes us inside a recent top secret police operation
that cracked gang communication .
what the killers are actually saying to each other.
they uncover for this one 50 threats to life and those threats to life are threats to harm like serious.
the deadly players in this gang war are now are chillingly familiar.
crime families, like the hamsy’s and alameddine’s and the outlaw motorcycle gangs including the most feared the comchreros and the hells angels.
their deadly confrontation at sydney airport in 2009 was the first time the gang war went public. it was prpbably the sidney airport brawl that really made everybody realize just how brazen crime gangs are willing to be these days.
two rivals bikers meet by chance in Melbourne flying back to sidney, both call for reinforcements on arrival, the quantis domestic terminal is teaning with travelings.
this never be broadcast before, mobile phone footage captures what happens next
it’s hard to make out but amidst all the chaos of the full scale brawl – a murder is being committed.
Hells angels biky anthony zervas
is being bashed and stabbed to death.
comanchero boss mahmoud ” mick” Hawi was convicted of the murder reduced to manslaughter on appeal and realeased in 2015.but in the vicious cycle of payback in the burgeonig gang war, hawi was always marked for death
14 february 2018
one afternoon hawi goes to his gym down in his local area of rockdale and as he comes out and gets in his car about to drive off a gunman runs up to the driver side door and just unloads into the driver seat and shoots hawi dead. to that point it’s arguably the biggest gangland execution sydney had.
going way back, do you ever really leave the gang, you leave it in three ways;grow up, grow out ,get killed or go to jail well of course that came true to hawi.
the person one of the people involved that was charged with being involved in the shooting of hawi himself gets out of jail for other unrelated offense to the murder and then gets gun down himself in the middle of the city.
there’s no glamour in living by the sword die by the sword
comanchero boss mick hawi ‘s public execution in 2018 was eclipsed two years later by another biky murder even more brazen.
2020 , nick martin was boss of the rebels gang in perth. he became a target
bashed in public in one occasion ,martins luck finally and sectacularly ran out….
sitting with his family a the drag races he ws murdered by a sniper with a single shot from a high-powered rifle from over 300 m away.
martins funural procession featured a casket covered with 100 dollar bills.
nick martin had many enemies even inside his own rank, but in death the biky appears to be larger than life.
it’s probably the most audacious killing in the history of the gang wars.
the shooter, who was an ex- soldier was eventually arrested he’ done the hit for a 100, 000 dollars .
the ever escalating gang war sometimes covers a death toll that rises by the day.
you got 25 bodies on the street.
innocent people
longtime underworld figures
members of gangs crime families
it’s calculated and if you look at the milliona od milliona of dollars that police have hd to put into fighting it there’s no doubt that it’s a war.
and it’s a war where every underworld code is being broken targeting not just gang members but women,putting the public even children in the line of fire.
november the 29th 2020 these four men are about to enter the local gym in sydney’s west ,suddenly there’s a volley of shots. what happens next is truly terrifying.
next to the gym is a child car center .
the bullets came within millimeters of the children playing inside
in a mark of just how brazen and uncaring this war has become ,the shooter slowly and calmly drive vy to check how their attempted hit has gone.
living their stolen car burn out a few suburbs away.
police often talk about the rule book of the underworld,supposedly existed back in the day where there was a.. i guess its bit of an honor amongs thieves , there was a code and if there was any doubt that no longer existed it’s probably best shown that it was gone in in late 2022.two women were shot dead as they were about to head off to a night out together
2022
Lametta Fadlallah, left, and Amy Hazouri
it was around 8 : 50 p.m. the women was sitting in the back seat about to be taken to a party in the front a20 -year old male driver.a 16 year old girl beside him.
in the criminal world lametta fadlallah is someone who has known really well to the police probably the best way to describe her as a female gangster, she was somebody who rolled with a lot of underworld figures.
she’d been married married previously to a couple of underworld figures, she was considered somebody who would carry a gun, she could get your weapons she was a bit of a person who was able to source things for people in the underworld.
ignoring the pair in the front seats , the killer’s target was clearly Lametta but Amy Hazouri would not be spared .and whether he knew which one was which or just knew that one of them was definitely his target didn’t matter because essentially he and this other come of sprayed the whole back seat with blood stain and cut both women down just like that.
if there was any doubt that this out -of – control – gang war is growing ever more heartless
it comes when we’re given exlusive access to one of the most extrodinary australian federal police operations in in recen times.
called operation kraken , it seized 38 gang members,25 weapons
and over 200 kg of drugs
and 1.2 million dollars in cash.
but there was another prize that was far far more valuable to investigators.
operation kraken successfully shut down an encrypted criminal communications network called Ghost, incredibly this high- tech app used by hundreds of organiz drug gangs in australia and around the world
was run by a mannered tech whiz who still lived at home with his parents.
breaking this unlikely alliance between murderous criminals and a computer geek yielded a treasure trove of information.
this is one of the phones that they seized during operation kraken which has got the ghost application embedded on this phone – and looks like a normal phone.
yep, normal phone, camera in the back and what you can see in here -just bearing in mind that this was a device sees during operation kraken , so it’s evidence.
but what we see in here is we see the chats , we see any images that they’ve sent or received,videos it’s their communications is what we get in the phone . this phone was in a hand of one of the criminal gang before the federal police got it.
what the criminals were actually saying to each other in heir ghost messages is proof positive the terrible bloodshed of the gang war is deliberate and directed.
so it was things from aggravated robberies to assaults to actually threats to kill, domestic violence .
the federal police were able to intervene on all occassions.killings were prrevented- this time.but australians shouldbe terrified about what may be coming next overseas as well as high- tech communication networks gangs are developing cruel new weapons of war.
Dutch police recently uncovered this ganngland hideout they found a torture chamber inside a converted shippong container,complete with dentist chair.
pliers ,handcuffs and scalpels
NEXT
We take you deep inside a recent gangland crime that involves kidnap, torture and a 30 million dollar ransom.
it’s 3 :00 a.m june 1st 2021, police are called to a home in sydnieyäs western suburbs.
that is the big thing ,why do australians have such a high demand for drugs?
one of issues that australian police sruggling with is particularly cocaine and the demand is there