George Bejat kicked out of Mr Percival’s prior to firebombing, shooting

Former Bandidos president George Bejat was involved in a confrontation at a trendy Brisbane bar just weeks before it was firebombed and sprayed with bullets.

EX-BANDIDOS president George Bejat was kicked out of a trendy riverfront bar just weeks before it was firebombed and sprayed with bullets, it can be revealed.

George Bejat leaves the Brisbane Watchhouse in 2014.

The Sunday Mail can reveal Bejat, 33, was asked to leave Mr Percival’s bar at Brisbane’s bustling Howard Smith Wharves precinct in November last year.

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Police said the public altercation that led to him leaving the venue was “quite confrontational” in which “inappropriate and threatening language and behaviour” was made towards venue staff and security.

But The Sunday Mail does not suggest Bejat, a convicted cocaine trafficker who was once the Bandidos centro chapter president, is responsible for the firebombing or shooting.

The event involving the infamous playboy, who is best known for his role in the infamous Broadbeach bikie brawl on the Gold Coast, was only one of the incidents that has taken place at Mr Percival’s in recent months.

A still from CCTV showing a fire at Mr Percival’s at Howard Smith Wharf in December.

In the early hours of December 21, a man threw a firebomb into an open side door at the venue.

And the venue was peppered with bullets after at least one person on an inflatable boat fired multiple shots at the building while travelling along the Brisbane River about 2am on January 6.

A still from CCTV showing a fire at Mr Percival’s at Howard Smith Wharf in December.

The venue was closed when both crimes took place, and despite a number of staff being inside at the time of the shooting, no one was injured.

Shell casings, that produced no sufficient DNA evidence, and the boat, stolen from Surfers Paradise between December 26-29, were later found by police in nearby Norman Park.

A person is believed to have fired shots at Mr Percival’s from this boat.

Detectives are investigating any links to the three incidents but say they are keeping an open-mind to what led to the firebombing and shooting, and who is responsible.

Investigators released an image of a man they wish to talk to following a shooting incident and suspicious fire at Mr Percival’s.

Police have launched operation Sierra Stackbolt, headed by detective Superintendent Tony Fleming, Coordinator of Queensland Police Service Regional Crime and Intelligence, to find who is responsible.

Det Supt Fleming told The Sunday Mail the investigation remained “very, very active.”

“The interviews with people who may have information of value have continued and we will certainly continue to focus on any opportunity we can to bring someone to justice and bring them before the courts,” he said.

Mr Percival's at Howard Smith Wharves has been the target of both an arson attempt and a shooting. Picture: AAP Image/Josh Woning

Det Supt Fleming praised the work of all police involved and said he was “generally very impressed by the work of the crews.”