NSW Police open files on alleged Hamzy, Alameddine war in Supreme Court

A drug rip off by the Alameddine crime family against their bitter rivals the Hamzys sparked the gangland war which claimed the life of family patriarch Mejid Hamzy, police believe.

A drug theft by the Alameddine family from their bitter rivals the Hamzys sparked the gangland war which claimed the life of family patriarch Mejid Hamzy, police believe.

NSW Police opened the case files today on Sydney’s underworld war in a stunning bid to convince a Supreme Court judge that two members of the Hamzy family should be hit with powerful court orders limiting their freedom.

Murdered underworld figure Mejid Hamzy, whose brother and cousin could be placed under orders limiting their movements.

Police want Ghassan Amoun and Ibrahim Hamzy – the brother and cousin respectively of Mejid Hamzy – placed under Serious Crime Prevention Orders, saying they could each have reasons for wanting “retribution” over Mejid’s death.

The orders can limit who they speak to, where they go, what phone apps they use and impose many other conditions.

Lawyers for NSW Police are focusing on the bloody escalation of tensions between the Hamzy and Alameddine families in the weeks before Mejid was shot dead outside his Condell Park townhouse on October 19.

A car linked to Mejid Hamzy’s assassination attempt.

Criminal Groups Squad Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Read said a confidential “human source” told police a Hamzy-owned drug stash had been stolen.

“The Alameddines had stolen an amount of drugs from the Hamzy organised crime network,” Det-Ch Insp Read told the court.

Then on October 14, a close associate of the Alameddines, Shaylin Zreika, was set upon in a Sefton street in broad daylight by three men who police allege were Ibrahim Hamzy and two other members of his family.

CCTV of the attack shows Zreika being chased and beaten with a pole.

Police claim Zreika refused to tell them who his attackers were, instead saying the issue had “all been dealt with”.

On October 17, three days after the Sefton attack, 10 gunshots were fired into Ibrahim Hamzy’s Auburn home.

At 12.35am on October 19, 15 gunshots were fired into the home of prominent Alameddine family member Rafat Alameddine.

Seven hours after that shooting, masked gunmen ambushed Mejid Hamzy outside his Condell Park home.

“Mejid Hamzy, the brother of Ghassan Amoun ... was shot and killed,” barrister for NSW Police Lachlan Gyles told the court.

“Mejid was the brother of Bassam Hamzy, one of Australia’s more notable criminals.”

Both Amoun and Hamzy are fighting the orders.

In separate proceedings, police are also seeking a Serious Crime Prevention Order on Rafat Alameddine.

Police have also raised concerns the notorious Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy, who is still serving time for murder, had allegedly exercised control over his associates from jail in the past.

The court heard Bassam Hamzy once sent a letter to Mejid outlining “the code all his family should live by” and referred to it as “a constitution”.