Exiled crime kingpin Rafat Alameddine among trio wanted over Guildford murder of Salim and Toufik Hamze

One of Sydney’s biggest crime figues is being sought by NSW Police — along with two other men — over the alleged murders of a teen gangster and his innocent father in Guildford.

One of Sydney’s biggest crime figures is now officially wanted by NSW Police, along with two other men, after police allegedly uncovered a group chat discussing the murders of teen gangster Salim Hamze and his innocent father Toufik in Guildford in 2021.

Rafat Alameddine, head of the Alameddine organised crime network, John Ray Bayssari and Zaid Abdelhafez are now wanted on international arrest warrants for two counts of murder, with all three living known to be living offshore.

On top of the arrest warrants for Alameddine, Bayssari and Abdelhafez, police made two arrests in NSW on Wednesday – that of Masood Zakaria and Adam Achrafi.

Police arrested Zakaria at Goulburn Supermax jail and swooped on Achrafi at his Austral home, with both charged with two counts of murder and being involved in a criminal group.

The Daily Telegraph understands police will allege that all five men were involved in a group chat about the murders of Salim and Toufik Hamze on October 20, 2021.

NSW Police have issued an arrest warrant for crime kingpin Rafat Alameddine over the murder of Salim and Toufik Hamze.

They are also hunting for alleged Alameddine crime clan member John Ray Bayssari has also left Australia.

Salim Hamze had been linked to several shootings in the conflict between the Alameddine and Hamzys before his death.

One of those was the fatal shooting of Shady Kanj, a low-level drug runner for the Alameddine crime clan, who was lured to a dead-end street and gunned down in mid-2021.

In the months before his death police had begun to pay a large amount of attention to Salim, including catching him in possession of a gun, but his father too had tried to put him on the right path by signing him up to work a construction job with him - hoping to turn him away from a life of crime.

Salim had just arrived at his father Toufik’s home on Osgood Street to head off to work on the morning they were both killed.

CCTV previously released by police shows a balaclava-clad gunman running up to the red ute the father and son had just got into, before slipping on the grass, and then regaining his footing and opening fire.

Zaid Abdelhafez is wanted by NSW Police.

Masood Zakaria was charged on Wednesday morning.

Homicide Squad Commander Danny Doherty said detectives had spoken to the Hamze family on Wednesday morning, who were happy to learn it was still being investigated three years on.

“The Hamze family have been contacted and they’re surprised that we’ve actually kept on going, but they were very pleased that we haven’t stopped and we won’t stop, and we never will,” Detective Superintendent Doherty said.

“This has been a callous murder (to investigate), we’ve spoken about this murder over many years and again we have an innocent man whose been shot dead, because we believe that Salim Hamze was the target of this organised criminal network.

“The people that we’ve mentioned (as wanted) are not just low-level soldiers, we’re talking about upper-echelon of the organised crime network. So when you remove the aces from a house of cards, you watch it fall, and that’s what we’re seeing.”

Toufik and Salim Hamze were killed outside their home in 2021.

CCTV released by NSW Police of the gunman who carried out the double murders. He remains outstanding.

Police sources said Alameddine and Bayssari are alleged to have been architects of the hit, while it is believed Abdelhafez was in the getaway car on the morning of the double murder.

Police do not allege Zakaria or Achrafi were the gunmen but rather that they, like the men offshore, were crucial in the “planning, resourcing and execution” of the murders.

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald heaped praise on detectives for their persistent investigations, saying he was said he was “proud” of their efforts to try and clean up the streets.

“This is outstanding police work and the community of New South Wales should feel very, very safe with the work that these people do,” Mr Fitzgerald, the head of the State Crime Command, said.

Just moments after arriving at his father Toufik’s home on Osgood Street to go to work together on October 20, 2021, Salim and his dad would be killed.

“The callous murders of father and son, Toufik and Salim Hamze, was one of the worst organised crime assassinations we’ve seen in Australia, in which an innocent man was caught up in the violence and depravity.

“Now these three men are officially wanted on the charges of murder, we are appealing to them today to come home and face the consequences.

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