{"id":73342,"date":"2026-08-16T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/73342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:50:21","slug":"crime-figure-fadi-haddara-shot-in-melbournes-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/73342\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime figure Fadi Haddara shot in Melbourne\u2019s west"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crime figure Fadi Haddara has been shot in Melbourne\u2019s western suburbs and is fighting for his life in hospital.<\/p>\n

Haddara was shot in Marigold Ave in Altona North on Sunday night in a suspected gangland ambush.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s believed he was shot as he sat in a vehicle in the driveway of a property.<\/p>\n

He was rushed to hospital and is being treated for life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

A Victoria police statement issued at midnight said: \u201cThe 48-year-old man is believed to have been in a vehicle at the time of the shooting\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA crime scene has been established and officers from the Major Crime Scene Unit will attend to process the scene in the morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this stage the incident is believed to be targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n

A crime scene remained in place on Monday morning, with Marigold Ave residents waking to a heavy police presence,<\/p>\n

Steven Scott, who lives three doors away, said he heard multiple gunshots about 8pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He came outside and saw Haddara being loaded into an ambulance, while some occupants of the house whose driveway he was shot in were yelling at police.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t come near us \u2014 leave me alone, leave us alone,\u201d Mr Scott said he heard them yell.<\/p>\n

Haddara is suspected of being a major figure in Victoria\u2019s illicit tobacco trade.<\/a><\/p>\n

Haddara was charged with firearms offences and affray by the Lunar taskforce in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n

Those counts were later dropped.<\/a><\/p>\n

More than a decade ago, he was the target of a major organised crime operation called Skyborne.<\/p>\n

That work, by the former Santiago taskforce, resulted in him being jailed for firearms and gun trafficking.<\/p>\n

He has been taken on in recent years by feared exiled underworld identity Kazem Hamad.<\/a><\/p>\n

Haddara\u2019s businesses came under fire after Hamad made his move into the black market smoke sector.<\/p>\n

His smoke shops, a restaurant and auto workshop were among businesses torched in attacks believed to be linked to the Hamad syndicate.<\/p>\n

Haddara has been regarded as a formidable figure in Melbourne\u2019s underworld for years.<\/p>\n

Several associates of Haddara contacted by the Herald Sun on Sunday night were unaware the underworld figure had been shot.<\/p>\n

But they predicted Victoria\u2019s tobacco war would be at the centre of it.<\/p>\n

Haddara had been a major player in the black market before Hamad was released from prison and deported to Iraq from where he led a firebombing and extortion campaign from late 2023 onwards.<\/p>\n

Haddara was under threat while he was being pushed out of the cut throat black market. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose things never die,\u201d one associate said.<\/p>\n

Haddara\u2019s businesses came under attack at the peak of the firebombings.<\/p>\n

Hamad is now serving a life sentence in an Iraqi jail.<\/a><\/p>\n

But sources say Hamad\u2019s crew, known as the 313, remain active as his underlings seek to take control.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were at the scene in Altona North on Sunday night where Haddara was shot.<\/p>\n

It follows a number of other shooting incidents in Altona North this year.<\/p>\n

On July 31, a house on Seventh Ave was peppered with bullets in a dead-of-night incident.<\/p>\n

A tobacco shop off Millers Rd was shot at in April.<\/p>\n

A month earlier, patrons at a cafe close to the tobacco shop ducked for cover when a gunman opened fire at them late in the evening.<\/p>\n

Series of underworld shootings<\/p>\n

The Haddara shooting is the latest in a succession of ambushes on big Melbourne underworld names in the past three years.<\/p>\n

In August, 2023, tobacco trade players Mohammed \u201cAfghan Ali\u201d Keshtiar<\/a> was fatally wounded in South Yarra.<\/p>\n

Organised crime wild man Gavin Preston died a month later when a hit team pounced on him at a Keilor cafe.<\/p>\n

In January last year, Hawre \u201cHarry the Como\u201d Sherwani was gunned down by killers who posed as police to pull his car over at Caroline Springs.<\/p>\n

Hamad foe Sam \u201cThe Punisher\u201d Abdulrahim was next to go, ambushed in an underground carpark at Preston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime figure Fadi Haddara has been shot in Melbourne\u2019s western suburbs and is fighting for his life 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