Hamzy clan matriarch Maha’s CCTV system to be torn down

The NSW Housing Corporation has vowed to remove the $20,000 security set-up surrounding Hamzy matriarch Maha’s public housing home — and send her the bill.

This is fortress Maha, the housing commission compound that has undergone a major security overhaul in a bid to protect not only Hamzy family matriarch Maha Hamze, but five other relatives who officially call it their home.

But the elaborate $20,000 set-up surrounding her Auburn townhouse will soon be gone, with the Housing Department — unaware of who put it there — pledging to tear it down after The Daily Telegraph brought the additions to the government’s attention.

Maha Hamze outside her Auburn home.

Some of the cameras installed outside the townhouse.

Ms Hamze’s years living at the townhouse have been marred by multiple shootings, including one that saw her shot in the back through her own front door in 2013.

The most recent drive-by attack came in January 2021 when bullets were fired at the block, only for a stray one to hit a window at the nearby Auburn Hospital — shattering glass and cutting a nurse.

Police sources said it was not Ms Hamze who was the target of that attack, instead it was a known associate of her high-profile son Ibrahem, whose relatives live in another flat at the address.

Ibrahem, who is currently behind bars on remand for allegedly co-ordinating an attempted assassination at a Prospect Gym last year, still lists his official electoral address as his mother’s home on Auburn Rd.

So, too, does Ms Hamze’s daughter-in-law Natalie, whose crime boss husband Bilal was gunned down in Sydney’s CBD last June, and three other relatives.

There is no suggestion either Natalie or Maha Hamze are involved in criminal activity.

While Bilal and Ibrahem lived a high life of fancy restaurants, $500 Givenchy T-shirts and sports cars, their mother continues to receive a pension and live in a public housing home paid for by the taxpayer.

The CCTV camera system is estimated to have cost $20,000. Picture John Grainger

The security additions to Ms Hamze’s townhouse came in the wake of Bilal’s CBD execution last year.

With tensions between the Hamzy and Alameddine clans running high, up to 16 CCTV cameras and a large security gate were added to the public housing block.

A security expert said the tower of four CCTV cameras covering a 360 degree view would cost about $7000 and the remaining 12 cameras would total between $13,000 and $14,000.

Sources said the additions had not been made in consultation with the Land and Housing Commission, and as a result, they would now be pulled down at a cost to Ms Hamze.

Bilal Hamze was shot dead last year.

Ibrahem Hamze is behind bars on remand.

“The NSW Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC), along with our tenancy management partners the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ), are investigating unapproved modifications that have been made to a property at Auburn Road, Auburn,” a Land and Housing Corporation spokesman said.

“LAHC and DCJ are working closely with tenants at the property to understand the circumstances behind the installation of several cameras and poles as well as a security gate.

“Unapproved modifications will be removed at the cost of those responsible and the matter may be referred to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal at the completion of the investigation by LAHC and DCJ.”