The Postcode Wars: Street gangs, drugs and organised crime | Four Corners

This program contains course language and content that may upset some viewers that you fight for in your area and as silly as it may seem to most people, to us here it is something that can be bought on the

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s of Sydney and the Battle lines are drawn between zip codes, everyone is doing well. Now everyone knows what lines to take and if you are willing to follow that path you have to be prepared to go to war, the conflict is claiming young lives and there are no rules, there is no guide on how to deal with loss. a brother and show is wanted for being one of the live ones but the whole story goes beyond the headlines they only want to talk we point knives at their heads we have metal on our hips if we see you we are going to go after you We enter a hierarchy powerful and dangerous

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that reveals how it extends from bikers and organized

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families to kids in

postcode

gangs

fighting for their turf.

Why did you stop him? I don't know much about Himane, so I can't. really speaks highly of it, why did you need to stab him and then if you didn't know much about him, it happens to be a Friday afternoon in Maryland, in the western suburbs of Sydney, a gang called ml60 agreed to meet us at a parking lot full of sports for these young people's area Pride runs deep to be honest it's just that we hold it down for the area and then anyone who goes against us just like anyone who goes against their movie our area is FM , anyone who goes against us goes against our family, what is it? involved in the way you live, especially uh priest will be killed because no, no, no, don't do that, not in front of the camera, don't do that when night falls, other gang members arrive, they are willing to answer more questions, but there are limits.

Everything is red hot for us because we don't lie and then you're saying you're going to answer questions about what's red hot right now. Yes, we will answer some depending on how hot we think it is. They say we are wearing masks tonight because some of them are accused of serious crimes. Well together as a group, we have members who have been charged with gbh who have members who have been charged with armed robberies, members who have been charged with Pursuits, one sentence, weapons, what. types of weapons mainly knives, hammers, water knives and hammers are used for what you know and how they are generally used for when okay can you tell me when?

When it comes to violence, it usually ends with bloodshed. Would they usually carry knives? sometimes, but our Time Force protection is yours for a little bit of this, it's called Zip Code Wars because it's games of different zip codes, different areas, they represent their area and the problem is that it has also become normal for them to feel that. They have to defend their territory They have to defend where they live OAS Menzel, 18, lives with the consequences of Sydney's

postcode

wars

. A year ago he lost his best friend Jason to violence in the west, the great west and south west of Sydney, yes, in all regions. has its own little

gangs

within those regions, conflicts over territorial drug money, you know, there are many contributing factors and you will find that these days they are more ruthless, impulsive, you know, uh, they don't take into account the public or to the community, they just do what they want to do, foreign stations are often flashpoints in conflict in 2016, two postcode gangs clashed in a fight at Mount Druitt station.

CCTV shows the moment a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a crowd of up to 100 people since then. The dispute between rival areas has continued. There have been at least six deaths in the last

four

years. The most recent was the stabbing of a 17-year-old at this year's Easter show. Oasis was fighting to stop more deaths after the alleged murder of his friend. create an organization called youth against violence. I don't want to see another young man. You know, it hurts me every time I hear about another young man being murdered by another young man because of zip code gangs over petty disagreements. it's real like I relived it and I was like oh I'm trying my best to do something to stop it but a lot of people are just normalizing this yeah okay kids are getting stabbed by the news like no no by the news .

Do something about it Recognize it's a problem first, then step up and do something about it Oasis friend Jason Galligan, 16, was allegedly beaten to death in a prolonged attack that a magistrate described as torture. Police allege that his attackers sought notoriety in the gang. forced Jason to denounce his rivals in a video posted on social networks, so in the video that circulated they told him several times to denounce the gang. He was told several times why he was still being beaten to report that gang, how do you handle that? Knowing those are the accusations, we never wanted to believe it was Jason and we still can't believe it's him.

You know that of all people you know that he was never a violent person. They were all tough people, probably some of the nicest people I ever met. You know, there's no point in Granville in western Sydney. The 19-year-old demons and his team are showing us his territory. We only have about five families leaving this beach. Marks, they formed a bond growing up together as children. Well, you still like a slave head. close the hall with your feet like it's the kids restaurant but yeah this is where it all started these guys call themselves amn and as needed they see me and my brothers yeah like we come into this world, just trying money and stuff, you know. the thing went to another you meet new people you try to do these things you know and we can't be friends and you know we built a good bond and what happens when someone tries to get your friend you know you want to back them up I know, as a good friend, would you know that you hear the sirens ringing for India, yes, non-stop, non-stop, oh yes?

The city of Fairfield at a local train station. The demons tell us about the brutal reality of zip code politics. Yes, many types in Is it dangerous for you to cross into certain areas in Sydney? No, well, yes, obviously we all know that there is a conflict in Western Sydney, there is a war going on at the moment, so yes, everyone knows what lines to take and if they are willing to do it. go around you know you have to be prepared to go to war you know what the hell he was recently released from juvenile detention last year he stabbed a 20 year old seven times in the neck chest and back with a box cutter can you tell ? about the stabbing that you were involved in what happened there, um, you know, Buffet personal, yeah, I had a problem with one of my brothers and one thing led to another, was it because of him or me, you know it's in the wrong area in the At the end of the day you were carrying a knife that day I didn't know I was carrying it I didn't know I was carrying it directly What do you mean you didn't know?

I just looked in my bag and there was a you know. There was something there so CCTV obtained by Four Corners shows demons and their friend approaching their victim, they ask him where he is from before attacking him, given what happened to you, given you were locked up for it, would you think twice before do it again? Like I said, my brothers are my brothers, you know, loyalty stands, so yeah, I wish you knew to make sure I do better next time. A sense of belonging is central to this ongoing conflict until there is a problem and I guess that's why. we started to be like brother, we love this Hood for any Loco, he's been a gang leader for most of his adult life, you fight for your area, you know, and as dumb as it seems to most people here, It's something to die for you.

I know it's yeah, for me personally I've never felt Australian, you know, and I was born here, but I've always felt like a noun, draw, you know, this is my home. The 30-year-old took to the

street

s as a teenager to escape being sexually abused by a male relative at home gang violence locked him up in prison for nearly a decade I still have the idea I still have the desire to be violent and all That, but now I just rebuke him directly Back then I used to sit there daydreaming about the day I would die, you know, walking up to enemies like it was like an honor for me to die, you know, like I just wanted to enter an enemy prison, you know, like 20 or 30 of them and I just let them beat me to death and just did the best I could, you know, so Franny lives with her grandmother and the Housing Commission in the house she grew up in, okay, yes, you're right, it's coming, there's not much to see.

Honestly, dirty laundry, but this is my prison cell, I call it my prison, so yeah, you bad against the wall, yeah, like we do in jail, oh really, yeah, just so you can get in under the mattress for us because we. You can come in if you don't want anything special, but it's your home. I like when I was in prison. Franny founded one of the most ruthless gangs in Australia. Look in the back, so obviously it means a lot to you, so yeah, yeah, it means a lot, yeah, um, I'm out of the game though, but like I said, you can't like that the love for those guys is still there . two was his zip code, the zip code tattoo that you have, yeah, what was the reason behind getting that one?

Like I said, man, I was proud and I'm still proud of the manual, you know, and that's why I can tell why these kids are doing these things here, you know? They just continue with the same culture, but you know it's like I'm older and I understand that there's a bigger picture than zip codes. Franny says things have changed since he was out on the streets on social media. Fame is now a driver of violence, it's just the same stuff of pride and ego, but nowadays it's on a global platform, all I have to do is get a knife and be like these brothers in the area local, you know, being a gangster and I feel like that's where the change started to happen.

I feel like before kids did it, you know, they were so attracted to fame and so attracted to attention that a long-standing rule of life in a gang is not to talk about the crimes committed, but about a new La subculture has turned that code on its head. A violent genre of rap known as drill is being used by gang members to gain notoriety. Drill music by its nature, I suppose, is a darker form of rap music. The basis of dual music is that unless you've actually committed the crime, so unless you've committed the act you're singing about, you generally can't sing about that act.

That's the difference between rap music, where you can sing about an incident that happened or bring up a social injustice. light, but while the drill is really about I did this first, police say the drill music has fueled tensions between the war and the gangs, I saw an escalation of violence between two, you know, the two groups, the Inner West group and the Great West group, and both. subscribe to two different um um rap groups at the time and some of the music was about a Tit for Tat type scenario and there was some bait in the Tit for tats which started with a deadly fight in 2018.

CCTV from that night shows two Rival groups armed with weapons clashed with each other in an underpass in western Sydney, a 20 year old young man called Tino Henry was stabbed in the fight, he died within minutes, in particular it was a very cruel violent assault that led to the stabbing death of that individual and the The music that was written about that incident obviously not only fueled the fire that was already there when the group 1-4, affiliated with the Mount Druitt gang, released this song, the message was seen as a mockery to his District Rivals 21 on Tino. death I have friends watching them you see how they put George in a box, they put him in Box 21, what they hit him, ha, I guess that makes them funny, three months after the message the response came with the puppy on the side, missing of respect Fallen The soldiers, that is a suicide, District 21 responded to the fire with its own clue, if we see in a criminal offenses committee we will act on the criminal offense, but it is a very fine line between freedom of expression, and now You know, someone incites violence against another and we should always do that. protect the element of freedom of expression without a doubt, have you found any strange examples where drill music has incited violence?

Among the groups an important artist on the police radar is the rapper a hunchback earlier this year filmed a music video in enemy territory the shots obsessed although I'm dirty I'll be lurking on their blocks red dots and started talking to Fez they want they're just talking we're aiming for their heads the 25-year-old is a member of Sydney's notorious alamedeen family police allege his criminal network is responsible for drug importation money laundering kidnappings and shootingspublics Bloody feud spills into the heart of Sydney's CBD his music videos ring the media attention he and his family received this morning Eunice handed himself over to unrelated matters but rarely gives interviews, hey, My friend, he has a very close-knit circle of friends where he doesn't really trust many people outside of that world, one of the few disputes for interviewing a top boss is Mahmoud Fazal from ABC's background report, he doesn't usually trust people. media because of the way his family was portrayed in the news.

Mahmoud was previously a member of an outlaw motorcycle club for the past three years. I reported on the drill scene. I built a relationship with him over several years, but a lot of that relationship was based on my background. I was mixed up with the streets when I was young, so drawing on that and having long conversations with him. built and gained the trust of him over several years in a foreigner whose real name is Ali Eunice outside court on the morning of a bail hearing. Hey, she's just been granted permission to travel to Canberra to perform his first headline show.

He just shows that I'm out of luck. no, there's no dramas on my shows, nothing, you know, I just go there to do my show, I give the fans what they want and they go home, you know, everyone's having fun, a hunting show is accused of Fray Reckless, grievous bodily harm and assault with intent to participate in a criminal group has pleaded not guilty what have been his intestinal conditions to date uh curfew being reported daily um am I allowed to enter licensed premises unless it is related to the work um a lot associated with everything, but I can't associate with a lot of the people can't live New South Wales possible gave up Khan Antonio Exit point national international very, very strict intestinal conditions yes, so these are quite harsh conditions conditions very, very harsh yes, I hunt, the show is prohibited from associating me with members of the Almadine Network organized crime, including his own cousins, obviously, my family, they have all been charged, they are like half of my children, most of my children are in jail and the news, the telegraphs and all the media label us as the most dangerous crime family in the world. the country, you know, it's obviously and I'm part of it, supposedly yeah, I mean, The Syndicate is supposedly involved in a deadly feud with Sydney's other major crime family, the damage eats up the conflict is part of a war of gangs that have been seen at least a dozen. murders in the last two years, as well as other drive-by shootings, one of them targeted ahan Show's cousin in his home suburb of Maryland, this is Maryland Park, as you can see, there are police everywhere, yeah , as soon as you walk in, you see it.

Does seeing a police car make you nervous? There's nothing to be nervous about. I'm not doing anything wrong, so it's not like I'm running around with anything illegal. Thank you. A hunch wants to show us the house he grew up in. At that time we were all together, we couldn't talk to each other. I was allowed to associate with my cousins ​​back then, he was a teenager when he had his first interaction with the police. This is my first Raider here to be honest, your first raid. by the police, yes, it was here where they gave me an FPL order, what is this provision of fire water?

It's like you're not allowed to carry weapons. It's a firearms prohibition order, that's what it's called. I received a kind of firearms permit letter when I was 18 years old. Yes, he was quite young and my house was broken into. Searching for weapons, did you find any? No, no, I don't carry weapons, how many times do you think you've been rated? I couldn't tell you. After there were too many, you lost count, yes, you lost count. I was graded only here in this house. I have a six seven times and then in my house, after this, probably the same house, after that, the same and then the house. after that the same thing I moved about three

four

times after that they all rated me numerous and when it was the last one about two months ago in New South Wales A specialized police squad called the raptor is responsible for disrupting organized crime networks the unit is led by Acting Deputy Commissioner Jason Weinstein.

We have prevented a series of homicides and, certainly, a series of kidnappings and other crimes. Reptar focuses solely on those individuals who facilitate, whether from the street level, all the To get to the top end of the organized crime element, one hunch has told us that he and his family are being severely harassed by the police. What is his response to that? No, I would say that is not the case at all, why is he attacking him? So I said, well, I don't apologize for attacking those who associate with organized crime. You know, we do it legally now.

If Mr. Unes is one of those individuals, then yes, I would say don't apologize for that. but if Mr Jones is not associated with elements of organized crime, then I would expect that he would not receive any attention from the New South Wales police force. At the heart of Sydney's gang war is a ruthless battle to dominate the nation's drug trade. Bricks of cocaine and other narcotics imported into Australia are processed in secret, constantly changing locations, known as trap houses, after security risks are assessed. Mahmoud Fazal has arranged a visit to one of these places on the basis that he does not know the location of the trap house or the identities of the people who will accept him, as I understand it, they will blindfold me and take me somewhere that will show me how his world.

Okay, you've been told to meet in a public place. Moonwood returns in hours. He later was shocked by what he saw. I was pretty, what happened was quite intense. I got in a car for about 20 minutes and then jumped out of the car into another car and drove for another, let's say, 20 minutes. He was completely blindfolded. All the way, Mumu tells me how they took him to a shipping container where they took off his blindfold. Two guys came in completely passed out, with gloves and a backpack, and pulled out three guns. The images show the young people placing three high-powered weapons. a table before unloading the ammunition they looked like teenagers armed with incredibly dangerous weapons they also saw cocaine being cut there were a few ounces of cocaine they tell Mahmoud how crime syndicates work but as a condition for filming I don't want their voices to be broadcast, so the The way it operates is to start with entry level positions, so it's dealing

drugs

, stealing cars and attacking to collect debts and if they do those jobs well, they are offered more serious crimes, like shootings, kidnappings. and sometimes murder makes you nervous, it's a little nervous, yes, it's mainly about seeing people who are so young, brought into that kind of world, young people are part of a powerful criminal hierarchy that extends from bikers and families criminals up Street police say postal gang children are being used by organized crime as foot soldiers.

They have prepared them for a life of crime and desensitized them. They earn your trust. They offer them a reward. They make them feel loved and belong to something. And then they will. breach of trust Four Corners has uncovered a link between postcode gangs and Sydney organized crime networks in a shooting late last year four alleged associates of the alamedeans were attacked outside this gym bullets narrowly missed the children in an accident next door we can reveal one of the The alleged gunman is a 24-year-old nicknamed Freddy, he has been a prominent member of the Mount Druitt postcode gang.

Police allege that Freddy was hired by Ibrahim Hamsi, who was the target of an attempted bombing just months before one of the young men accused of planning that shooting. is ahan Show's good friend Joseph fakai, seen here in a music video, has pleaded not guilty, police alleged that vakai is a senior member of a street gang called kvt the kvt, a group of Pacific Island youths who They were definitely used for the purpose of building muscles for one of the crime families in South West Sydney, police say the KVT gang is part of the Alamedine crime network, some of them have gone from being elements of foot soldiers within from that gang to probably what I would call the middle structure of that crime family and they could facilitate the movement of

drugs

, the storage of firearms, they can go and carry out kidnappings on behalf of their organized crime family.

Police have alleged that a hunting show is key to recruiting young gang members into the Alamedeen criminal network. We wanted to ask you about this on the day of our interview. A high-ranking member of the network attends in person. He was one of the men shot outside the gym last year. The condition of the interview is that we are not allowed to use his name or show his face. Are you responsible for recruiting a new gang? members of the alma crime network Dean no 100 no, what about the members of the kvt police who allege that alamedeans use kvt gang members as foot soldiers?

I don't know, but I don't know what that is, so do you deny it or just yeah, um, I just want to remind you of the activities in the game from the sidelines, the associate frequently intervenes, I mean, it's like there's no evidence that They flatly deny that the Alamedines are a criminal family, yes, there is no criminal network, there is nothing like that. it's just that that's something that the police have invented what the media has invented is that there is no such thing about there is no crime The Police Network has described him as a lieutenant of the Alamedeen Crime Network as one of the Australia's most wanted fugitives.

He has a warrant for conspiracy to murder. Do you know where Nissan Zachariah is now? No, are you sure of that, why are you laughing? Nice question, funny questions, why is he funny? It's a serious question, although since the police are looking for him, he is said to have fled the country, so do you know where he is, you would say if you didn't comment, while a hunter refuses to answer questions about real-life crimes, insist that his lyrics are authentic, make sure the Sixers have helped your music career by having your family's notoriety associated with I mean, it's helped because people know that I'm not a fake rapper or people know that when I rap you listen to reality, you know you are not hearing anything false.

I come from that background, so I would say that "I'm the realest rapper this country has, the most dangerous. I don't know, that's what the public decides. We're allowed to film with a hunting show for the last time. Ambra, the VIP section is filled with his team. Some of them are known to the police, there are also alleged members of the kvt gang, including a rapper known as NASA Nova, who is accused of assault a few days later. like this are carried out. Police have previously advised places to cancel drills. Geeks or general symptoms we would not let a domestic violence offender go out and sing a song about what he wants to do to his partner and commit. acts of violence.

We would never allow it, we wouldn't accept it socially and I don't know why we would let groups go on and sing about harassing another side with the right to commit an act of violence. drilling come from a Von environment. It's not by choice, it's by environment. I pray that you come home when they see us. They run, the violence in the drill cannot be denied, but the artists say that the music is not understood. I have two clubs in two districts and some bad beasts tell me to miss this, eh, for Martin Muen, the drill is helping him process his pain, the trees, his son.

His brother Mac had just launched his music career when he was allegedly murdered the night of his death. Mac took part in a home invasion allegedly targeting a member of a rival postcode gang before being hunted down and nearly killed in Sydney, he needs to say he seems to be growing up. For most of us, it wasn't necessarily difficult to stay out of trouble because it's possible, but you face a lot of conflict. Unfortunately, conflict leads to more conflict, so yes, Martin is under the name Just M. He has created a record label in honor of his brother and uses rap to help young people get off the streets and out of the justice system.

Music is like therapy, so for me writing music helped me through a lot of bad times, that's the best way to say it, so yeah. Instead of going out to make situations worse, I dedicate myself to music because I feel that since the incident with my brother I discovered that music is the best way out for me. Do you think the criticisms about it are fair? No, you cannot criticize someone's education. someone if someone has had difficulties growing up that is not in your handscontrolling it this month marks the second anniversary of Max's death there are no rules there is no guide in terms of how to deal with the loss of a sibling not like that as you grow as a Person you find ways to deal with.

I guess luckily for me I found that music was the first thing that came and helped me and I think from then on it led me to help other people. I don't know where it will take me. From there I'll sit on the side, so come in, yeah, a lot better this time, yeah, yeah, it's this side that way, a lot of the gang members we've met are wannabe drill artists, hey, yeah but we won't stop like we're kind of fully automatic we've got screams we've got backs probably causing habits again 19 year old demons he's in south west Sydney tonight filming a freestyle rap for his social media trying to leave the life of gangs to focus on his music but that's not easy when his music is about his crimes in this song he's rapping about the stabbing he committed last year.

Is there pressure to keep building street cred for yourself to keep committing violent acts to support your music? I mean, for me, look, you know, look at music. It doesn't have to be violence, yeah, all the time, like we're making new music, you know, aside from all the violence and stuff away from all the violence, you know a lot, we're trying to be legit, but it must be hard when a lot of the drill is about that, yeah, it's like western Sydney, we've got a dark past, you know, it's deep, you know, now it's time for us to talk about it, sometimes they cut your throat, leave a seat , I can't.

I finally understood it brother, this bar is foreign.