Face facts, I’m a race target, says Salim Mehajer

The sacking of Auburn City Council was about Salim Mehajer’s ‘olive complexion’, the notorious former deputy mayor says.

Salim Mehajer says his ‘olice complexion’ has made jim a target. Picture: John Grainger

The sacking of Auburn City Council was not about alleged secret payments, sweetheart deals or councillors personally earning tens of millions of dollars from favourable land rezonings, but Salim Mehajer’s “olive complexion”, the notorious former deputy mayor has claimed.

In a rambling Facebook post, Mr Mehajer attacked two key whistleblowers of alleged­ council corruption, former councillors Irene Simms and George Campbell, of being “dole bludgers” who should be happy for the “capsule of butter” put on their tables by the likes of himself.

“It appears that everyone must be reminded of their positions in life, every so often ... and indeed I’d like to remind the two of you ‘dole bludgers’ that it is I, and indeed people like myself that is paying for that slice of bread and capsule of butter sittin­g on your kitchen table,” Mr Mehajer writes in the post to the Auburn community Facebook page Auburn 2144.

“Both of you seem to always hold such negative ideologies & have set ‘anti-development’ ideals­, yet when it comes to me or someone with an ‘olive complexion’ lodging a development application, I am grossly targeted.”

The 10 Auburn councillors were suspended indefinitely last week by the NSW government, which has ordered a public inquir­y into dealings between the council and property developers, after exposes by The Australian.

Yesterday interim admin­istrator Viv May terminated a move by council in December to sell a council-owned carpark to a company Mr Mehajer owned.