NSW police issue Rafat Alameddine a crime prevention order in bid to calm Sydney gang war

Police lawyers are working to curtail the freedoms of the notorious Alameddine in the hope of calming Sydney’s simmering underworld feud.

Lawyers for NSW Police have begun trying to clip the wings of the notorious Alameddine clan via an onerous court process in the hope of calming Sydney’s sizzling underworld feud.

Rafat Alameddine was handed a court summons on Wednesday for a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) which, if signed off by a judge, could significantly curtail who he speaks to, where he goes and how much cash he can have.

Rafat Alameddine’s life could be subject to strict conditions. Picture: Adam Yip

It comes weeks after police initiated the same process against two members of the Hamzy family – known rivals of the Alameddines.

Family patriarch Mejid Hamzy was shot dead outside his Condell Park home on October 18, sparking fears an all-out gang war would erupt on the streets of Western Sydney.

There is no suggestion the Alameddines were behind the execution of Hamzy.

Rafat Alameddine, whose brother Talal Alameddine supplied the gun used to kill NSW Police accountant Curtis Cheng in 2015, is the first of his clan to be served an SCPO summons by police.

He was one of 22 people served with a 72-hour Public Safety Order in the days after Mejid Hamzy’s execution, temporarily banning him from neighbourhoods inhabited by his Hamzy rivals.

Mejid Hamzy was shot dead outside his Condell Park home.

Once those orders timed out, senior police turned to the SCPOs and the stringent controls the orders allow them to impose on an individual’s freedoms for up to five years.

However the process to gain one of the orders is an onerous one for police, who must compile enough evidence to convince a Supreme Court judge a person’s liberties should be cut.

Rafat received a 15-month good behaviour bond in 2018 for his role in a luxury car racket.

The case of his SCPO will go before a judge on December 10.

Police will this month continue their court battle to have the SCPOs placed on the two Hamzy family members, Mejid’s brother Ghassan Amoun and another relative Ibrahim Hamzy.

Police tailor a specific set of conditions for each person they attempt to place under an SCPO. The restrictions can include which devices and apps they use, who they can speak and how much cash they can be in possession of.
The Daily Telegraph approached Alameddine’s lawyer Abdul Saddik who declined to comment on the matter this morning.