Rapper Ali ‘Ay Huncho’ Younes, linked to the Alameddine crime clan, flies abroad and mocks the police
A rapper and alleged Alameddine gang member has taunted police while fleeing abroad after narrowly avoiding jail for his role in a vicious brawl.
Ali ‘Ay Huncho’ Younes, 26, and associates Moshtaba Hafizi, 26, and Charbel Nohra, 25, pleaded guilty to a brawl and were sentenced on Monday.
The trio had been charged with their involvement in a warehouse fight where a man was beaten with a pipe on November 27, 2021.
The victim was left with a broken neck, broken cheek and lacerations.
Younes, who received a community correction order and a fine as a result, went abroad just two days after his conviction.
Alleged Alameddine gang member and rapper Ali ‘Ay Huncho’ Younes (pictured), 26, has fled the country after avoiding jail for his role in a brawl
He shared a photo of himself sitting in a business class seat on a plane on his Instagram account on Wednesday night.
“After 5 long years of being detained by the authorities I am finally allowed to travel,” he wrote in the image’s caption in an apparent grin at police.
A number of Younes’ employees and relatives are currently abroad.
The alleged head of the Alameddine crime clan and Younes’ cousin, Rafat Alameddine, is believed to have fled the country for Lebanon. It is clear that he is with his cousin Hamdi Alameddine.
Senior member Massood Zakaria is in Turkey as Australian authorities work to have him extradited back to the country.
He was reportedly arrested by the Turkish Special Forces in January.
Zakaria, 27, was reported to have fled the country in December 2021 – just as an arrest warrant had been issued five months earlier for his alleged involvement in the attempted murder of rival gang member Ibrahem Hamze in Northern Sydney.
Younes, who goes by the rap name Ay Huncho, has been at the center of Sydney’s drill rap scene since his breakthrough track Lifestyle 100 in 2017.
His controversial lyrics have been criticized by critics – and the police – for glorifying violence and gang life.
Younes shared a photo of himself sitting in a business class seat on an airplane on his Instagram account, where he appeared to be mocking police
Alleged Alameddine associates Ali Younes, Masood Zakaria, Rafat Alameddine and Hamdi Alameddine. Zakaria is in Turkey, while the Alameddine cousins are said to have fled the country
Younes, Hafizi, Nohra had the brawl charges hanging over their heads for more than a year after the trio were wanted by police in the aftermath of the brawl.
According to court documents, the three men had gone to the warehouse, which had been converted into a “makeshift gym” for amateur boxing fights, about an hour before a fight broke out.
Zakaria was also present.
It is clear that a fight broke out when Younes’ associate Nohra punched the victim, who was then beaten with a pipe.
Magistrate James Gibson, however, told Fairfield Local Court there was no conclusive evidence to suggest what any of the men had done in the battle.
The court heard that the three friends, along with an unnamed fourth man, left the fight and got into a car that had been bugged by police.
Younes (above) was given an 18-month community corrections order over the brawl and fined $550 for breaching a parole order for when he was involved in another brawl in Kings Cross
The court heard the party “referred to someone who picked up a pole and a chair, and a person who was knocked unconscious and assaulted while unconscious.”
After pleading guilty to a brawl, Younes received an 18-month community corrections order and was fined $550 for breaching a parole order for when he was involved in another brawl in Kings Cross.
Hafizi was given a two-year parole order, while Nohra was given an 18-month community correction order and $200 on drug charges.