We have a crime war raging in central Sydney. This war is a test of strength between two crime families and on Thursday night the head of one of those families was brutally murdered after consuming a meal at a prominent Japanese restaurant.
Bilal Hasmze died in a hail of bullets as he crossed Bridge Street, just five minutes from Circular Quay. He is is part of an ongoing fued with the Alameddimes family and Hamze is a relative of the nororious " Brothers for Life " founder Bassam Hamze. Police have issued warnings that similar attacks on several others in the Hamnze network now seem inevitable.
All this seems a reversion to the Americasn gangland wars of Prohibition, back in earlier times. Fortunes were being made running illegal alcohol to the mass market and this quickly fell to the task of organized Crime. " Speakeasies " cropped up in most neighbourhoods and these fought an ongoing war with the Police.
Over the years that followed, gangster gangs acquired automatic weapons and hijacking the inwards supplies of others became common. Alcohol was coming ashore on beaches, coast to coast as the world's alcohol industry responded to an export market.
The American Treasury became alarmed at this untaxesd profit flowing into gangster hands and repealed prohibition. Vast sections of the country elected to stay " dry " and remains that way today. Gun violence remains an untended problem because the right to own a gun is protected in the Constitution.
Guns became harder to legally acquire in Australia after the Port Arthur massacre. There is more profit to be made running guns now that strident control measures are in place. The gun numbers in Australia are again steadily growing.
It will be interestintg to see how the police respond to this challenge. As long as the two gangs continuie to wipe each other out they are conent to let gangsters take care of gangster business. It only becomes a police matter when the public get involved.
Unfortunately, life just doesn't work that way. Both police and public casualties are inevitable in this gang war unti law and order institutes control.
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