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Comancheros bikie kingpin Tarek Zahed has shown off the gruesome aftermath of ab infamous attempt on his life for the first time in a selfie taken with scandal-plagued footy great Wayne Carey.
Nicknamed the 'Balenciaga bikie' or 'Gucci gangster' for his love of designer clothing, Zahed was shot 10 times outside a gym in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn in May 2022.
His brother Omar, 39, went into cardiac arrest and died at the scene after he was shot several times in the arms, stomach and legs, while Zahed was rushed to Westmead Hospital in critical condition.
He survived the attack but suffered significant injuries, including losing his right eye.
While his catastrophic injuries had previously been shown in a mugshot, this is the first time the damage to his eye has been shown clearly.
Doctors were stunned at his recovery from the shooting after he spent months in hospital, but there was nothing they could do to save his eye, which was destroyed by a bullet.
Outlaw bikie Tarek Zahed is pictured with Wayne Carey. He lost his right eye after being shot several times in a gangland hit
The shooting outside a Sydney gym in 2022 saw Zahed (right) shot 10 times and killed his brother Omar (left)
Zahed (pictured) has been nicknamed the 'Balenciaga bikie' for his love of designer clothes
In the weeks leading up to the horror shooting, the former Comanchero national sergeant-at-arms was warned by organised crime detectives to 'stop going to the gym, change your routine'.
His friends even begged him to 'play it safe' and stop after learning that a $1million bounty had been put out on him by rivals.
Last August, it was reported that Zahed would move to Melbourne after he was freed from jail after spending two years behind bars for destroying evidence related to the execution of family friend Youssef Assoum in Sydney in 2014.
Police arrested him for that crime in dramatic scenes that saw officers in tactical gear fire rubber bullets into his BMW.
Zahed had no involvement in Assoum's death, and Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Carey knew Zahed's identity and past when the photo was taken.
The image has surfaced shortly after Carey, 54, attracted headlines over visiting a trendy bar in Melbourne's inner south east, where two other patrons a accused him of engaging in a sexual encounter with marketing executive Kate Aston.
Both Carey and Aston vehemently deny any 'toilet tryst' took place.
Carey lashed out on X following the incident, adamant the two women who filmed the vision had created a 'disgusting narrative'.
Given his scandalous past, 'Duck' didn't garner much support on social media from footy fans.
Zahed (pictured) was the national sergeant-at-arms for the Comanchero gang
AFL legend Wayne Carey lashed out in anger after he was featured in a video taken in a trendy Toorak wine bar
The women who took the video (pictured) accused Carey of having a sexual encounter with a woman at the venue - which he and the woman have both denied in no uncertain terms
Many referenced his infamous cheating scandal with Kelli Stevens, the wife of his North Melbourne teammate Anthony Stevens, which became footy's biggest scandal when the news broke in March of 2002.
Others raised his alleged glassing of ex-fiancée Kate Neilson.
In 2007, Carey was accused of smashing a glass into her face as the pair were having dinner at a restaurant while holidaying in Miami.
He was arrested and charged by police and later pleaded guilty to two counts of battery of a law enforcement officer and one count of resisting arrest with violence.
Some commenters pointed to the September 2022 incident that saw Carey kicked out of Perth's Crown Casino when a bag containing a white powder fell out of his pocket while he was gambling.
Carey said the bag contained crushed-up anti-inflammatory drugs.
And his guilty plea to a charge of indecent assault after grabbing a woman's breast outside a Melbourne nightclub in 1996 was also raised by footy fans who used it to shoot down his complaint about not consenting to the filming of the video.
Speaking on Sam Newman's You Cannot Be Serious podcast, Carey revealed his anger over the Toorak video.
Carey (pictured, with partner Jessica Paulke) branded the people behind the video 'vile and disgusting'
'You've got two ... disturbing ... women who want to do this to another woman,' he fumed.
'That's all they were doing, they were s**t-shaming another woman.
'I’m not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are. I’ll let the law take care of it.'
Carey added that one of the women's claim that she heard people 'grunting like pigs' in the toilet just before the video was taken is 'completely made-up crap.'
'I'm blown away that (two) women in their 40s could think this was a good idea,' he said. 'How will they explain this to their children?'
