An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. Often different rival criminal families are interlocked in feuds, resulting in a fair amount of violence. "People were shooting from so many different directions that no one knows who shot the bullet that killed Machhour's father.". Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Local Mayor Oscar Yildiz told the Age that the violence had spiralled out of control and that innocent people could be killed. A large number of former Lebanese citizens immigrated to several major German cities under political asylum and refugee status. ", Source countries / production: "the majority of amphetamines consumed in Australia is produced in this country in clandestine laboratories. This consignment consists of papers and photographs relating to the Saady and Wehby families, Karma Melkie, Australian Lebanese Historical Society projects, the Cootamundra Project, Annual General Meetings 2004-2015, administration records and photographs. The Triple Frontier, a tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, is often used by Lebanese groups connected to political parties but also by Arab Mafia groups as a heaven for smuggling and money laundering.[7]. Section 35A of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) outlines a further defence: it is legal to possess or manufacture a prohibited substance if the substance is contained in a product where the substance cannot be readily extracted, or in a product not for human consumption, or if the substance is possessed for the purpose of its disposal as waste or its destruction. Back in Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta godfathers were putting on presure to be paid their $10 million. | Learn more about Allison H.'s work . 0 View. The attacks were reported as a war between two rival Lebanese crime families, the Darwiches and the Razzaks. But many of the major players now are either related to these families, or closely linked within the criminal milieu.