Mob and biker war goes too far


An enormous clampdown with sweeping police raids and arrests of bikers, mobsters and gangsters is underway in dramatic style in Australia after a rash of gangland hits. It’s spinning so fast it makes you dizzy. The Mob Reporter here with news of how underworld rivalries, turf, ambition and reputation has gone too far and how authorities are tamping it back down by changing their laws and regrouping their forces. 13 hits in 18 months — with three in two weeks — proved too much. Among the targets were the national sergeant at arms of the country’s strongest biker club and two members of the Ahmad crime family. It demanded action. And action there was. A huge police taskforce was unveiled on May 16, 2022, called Taskforce Erebus. It’s an amalgamation of police assets with an additional 60 full-time officers refocussed tot tackle the problem.
An early wave of arrests in Sydney’s sprawling suburbs targeted two of Australia’s most powerful outlaw biker clubs with seven arrests — the Comanchero MC and the Rebels MC. Also in the mix were also members of the Bandidos MC and the Finks MC. Arrests kept coming, day after day.
The root of the upswing in underworld unrest, police say, is a struggle for market share enflamed by a changing landscape and overlapping feuds, including between the Alameddine clan and the Hamzy clan and the Ahmad family, and between bikers — or bikies as they’re called down under. The Alameddine clan seems to have formed an alliance with the Comanchero, making for a formidable force.

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