There are fears a new bikie war could spiral out of control in Australia.
In the past month, a Brisbane tattoo parlour has been firebombed, a man shot eight times and bashed with a baseball bat inside his home, a brazen daylight bashing outside a Gold Coast pub and a violent brawl outside a Brisbane shopping centre.
Forensic investigators set up a crime scene at tattoo parlour Koolsville Studios for days after the shop was deliberately set alight late last Thursday night.The fire came two days after the shooting of alleged Rebels member Gokhan Turkyilmaz on the Gold Coast on Tuesday night. A steel grate was also smashed through the windscreen of a car and another car was found burnt out in bushland nearby.
Supt Pond said police were continuing to crack down on illegal bikie gang activity, and the wider community shouldn’t feel intimidated. But Bond University criminologist Dr Terry Goldsworthy said the obvious escalation in violence meant it was more important than ever that police were able to crack down on warring gangs.
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