Australia's Brutal Gang Families Waging War in Sydney

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sydney has long been Australia’s “Sin City”, a pot of gold for crooks with the right connections and friends in the police. But over the past two years an altogether more deadly war has broken out for control of the city’s streets, pitting two Lebanese families and so-called “Postcode Gangs” in a feud that has shocked the nation. And at the top of it all is a fearsome biker-in-exile who has risen beyond even the Italian mob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.1	Tariq Zahid is not a guide to be messed with. A man mountain, built like a brick outhouse,
1:08.0	and on remand for a 2014 murder, Zaid is a massive player in the Comancero, Australia's most powerful biker game.
1:17.2	And he operates out of Sydney, the nation's most popular city.
1:21.4	A slick dresser, the media has taken to calling him the Bilinciaga Baikie, but he's a violent
1:26.9	thug, keen to cause mayhem wherever he goes, and despite being clever enough to keep his fingers off most high profile crimes, cops are close to charging Tarrick for that 2014 hit.
1:40.0	Contract hits are nothing new in Sydney's Royal in Gang War, controlled from afar by muscle-bound bikeies, patrolled on the city streets by two families of Middle Eastern origin, and below them trigger happy street gangs separated by their postal codes.
1:55.4	It's a strict hierarchy, populated by Islam and drug adult kids ready to do anything
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