Sydney’s streets are currently on fire. But The Daily Telegraph’s new doco series The Road To War delves into the feud that started it all.
Sydney’s streets are currently on fire.
In recent months, the underworld war that has been ongoing since late-2020 has escalated to a new level, something many who have followed closely in recent years would have thought was impossible.
First episode of The Road To War released on Monday, June 23
Gang wars are not a new thing for the suburbs of the Harbour City, in fact, they have been raging - with highs and lows - for the best part of the last 20 years.
But like anything, there has to be a first, and Sydney’s first gangland war was between the Razzaks and the Darwiches.
The conflict between the two began in the wake of the Sydney Olympics as the two families went toe-to-toe, gunning each other down in public and spraying the opponents’ homes with more bullets than police could count.
At one point, the Darwiches even considered using a rocket launcher to annihilate their rivals.
The Road to War is the latest docu mini-series from The Daily Telegraph’s Crime Editor Mark Morri and Chief Reporter Josh Hanrahan, taking you inside the biggest gang conflicts this city has seen.
While their award-winning previous work The War and The War II: Kill or be Killed have taken you inside the bloodshed and violence of Sydney’s underworld in recent years, The Road to War takes you back through the years to try and answer the key question: How did we get to this point?
Go inside The Daily Telegraph newsroom and on the road with our journalists, as they delve into the family feud between the Razzaks and Darwiches, the criminal rise of the Hamzy clan through Brothers for Life, and the tit-for-tat war of 2015 and 2016 that saw several big names shot dead.
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