Tarek Zahed: Balenciaga gangster draped in $895 t-shirts and obsessed over gym selfie gunned down

Police chiefs have now set up a separate Strike Force Leary to probe the shooting and work with Strike Force Raptor which was also boosted by another 30 officers from 115 to 145 detectives.

‘It is shocking, disturbing and unacceptable. When it happens in a public place, at 8pm, at a gym, it will not be tolerated,’ NSW police minister Paul Toole said.

‘If you are part of Sydney’s underworld, we are going to hunt you down. We will actually kick down doors.

‘We will raid homes, we will raid businesses, we will harass you, we will disrupt your everyday life to stop this kind of activity out. It is unacceptable.

‘If you are involved, an associate then I say to you right now, you better rethink your actives. We will come after you and lock you up.’

Lots of hiding places available, plenty of food, not many predators except maybe your neighbour’s cat.

‘Although I don’t think a cat could take down a rat of that size. You’ll need a terrier or a brown snake.’

‘Having seen behind the scenes at a few Westfields, this doesn’t surprise me at all,’ another commenter said.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Westfield for comment.

The ruthless enforcer had been a marked man for weeks, with gangland rivals putting a seven figure bounty on his head, believed to be worth between $1million and a staggering $7million.

On Tuesday night, someone almost got their bumper payday.

Despite the warnings about the hitmen hunting him, Zahed, 41, refused to stay away from the gym. As a result, he was cut down in a hail of bullets alongside his younger brother Omar, 39, on Tuesday evening.

Omar was killed instantly, but Zahed has grimly held on to life after being shot 10 times in the body and head, leaving him critically injured.

The pair had been told to get out of town just days earlier.

‘The two brothers were warned last Thursday,’ revealed NSW state crime commander Michael Fitzgerald.

‘Their lives have been at risk for some time.

‘They decided not to follow our recommendations to leave this state.’

The crowd turned on him with abuse as he ambled down the aisle, holding up play midway through the crunch match, and the umpire ordered him: ‘Just sit in the nearest seat.’

Another video clip gave a clear insight into his volatile fury.

He was caught on CCTV talking to younger associate Mohamed Aouli at a private birthday function in Crown Casino’s a’Mare restaurant in Sydney’s Barangaroo.

Zahed leads him to a toilet before suddenly unleashing savage blow after blow as his sidekicks herd the unwitting victim back inside, before the door closes.

Zahed – the Comanchero’s sergeant-at-arms – was in line to take control of the national bikie gang network after leader Mick Murray was jailed while awaiting trial for a 2019 murder.

Police today admitted that the Comancheros was Australia’s ‘largest criminal organisation.’

It follows links between the bikie gang and the Alameddine crime family – where the bikies act as brutal enforcers

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Zahed has been in and out of jail after setting his dog on one man, stamping on another man’s skull in a drug row – leaving him brain damaged – and shooting another after a wild street fight

Zahed has effectively been the recent leader of the NSW Comancheros since state boss Mark Buddle fled overseas in 2016 after he was linked to the murder of a Sydney security guard.

And Zahed’s own life of crime dates back 27 years to 1995 when he was first convicted of assault.

Since then, Zahed has been in and out of jail after setting his dog on one man, stamping on another man’s skull in a drug row – leaving him brain damaged – and shooting another after a wild street fight.

More recently, the Comancheros had been linked to an alleged $1million drugs haul of meth and MDMA seized by police in Bankstown last December which saw two other members of the bikie gang arrested.

Zahed was also said to have been making enemies while living in Victoria, which may also have sparked the hit.