Brothers for Life
Brothers for Life, also Brothers 4 Life or BFL was a Middle Eastern crime gang, active in south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Legal authorities first heard of BFL in May 2007 from notes found in the Lithgow gaol cell of Bassam Hamzy, the leader of the gang and a convicted murderer. The gang came to public prominence largely from internal disputes between the Lebanese Australian Bankstown chapter and the Afghan Australian Blacktown chapter.
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Brothers for Life, also Brothers 4 Life or BFL was a Middle Eastern crime gang, active in south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Legal authorities first heard of BFL in May 2007 from notes found in the Lithgow gaol cell of Bassam Hamzy, the leader of the gang and a convicted murderer. The gang came to public prominence largely from internal disputes between the Lebanese Australian Bankstown chapter and the Afghan Australian Blacktown chapter. Two members Yehye Amood, 27; and Bassim Hijazi, 32; were shot. Amood died after being hit eight times. Hjazi fled to Lebanon while refusing to assist police investigations into the shooting. Mejid Hamzy was killed during a targeted daylight shooting in Condell Park on the 19th October 2020. Several other gang members were seriously injured. Operation Apollo and Operation Talon were the police operations to deal with the gang. On 27−28 October 2014, five BFL members were arrested and charged with Hamzys’ murder.
Less than a week later on 3 November at Winston Hills, previously arrested BFL member Michael Odisho was shot several times. On 4 November a 13-year-old girl was wounded by shotgun pellets by her brother Masood Zakaria. On 7 November three BFL Bankstown members, Abdulmoud, Abumoud and Soumoud Hassan Khalil, were allegedly shot in a car outside a cafe in Bankstown. Four men were arrested about 40 minutes after the shooting in Parramatta. On 11 November Sarkhel Rokhzayi, 22, Mobin Marzei, 18, and Karimi Wahedi, 20, were charged in Burramatta Court with attempted murder. On 17 October 2012 a drive-by shooting targeted a home in Winston Hills. On 2 August shots were fired at a dwelling in Lignite Place, Eagle Vale. Just after midnight on 29 October in Bardo Circuit, Revesby Heights, another B FL member, Mahmoud Hamzy,. 27, was shot dead. In the same shooting Omar Ajaj, 24, also a BFLMember, was wounded.
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