A hairdresser whose gangster lover was executed as he lay next to her in bed was allegedly stalked from prison by a notorious criminal.
Police have issued an Arrested Violence Order for Fatima El Hage, 31, to protect her from a man jailed for the gangsters’ shooting of a nine-year-old girl in her pajamas in Sydney’s south.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Mahmoud Rizk is the man accused of stalking and intimidating Ms El Hage, after Rizk pleaded guilty to his role in the attack on the girl.
He was shot in the hip while standing outside a home in Connells Point wearing his Dr. Seuss pajamas while helping unpack car purchases on July 8, 2022.
As he lay bleeding on the floor, he asked his mother, ‘Am I going to die?’
The shooting, considered the most horrific in Sydney’s gang war, occurred after Rizk and another man arrived at the address looking for a member of the Brothers 4 Life gang.
Fatima El Hage has had a series of unfortunate encounters, starting with her gangster lover being murdered behind her, her husband’s Lambo set on fire, and now being chased from prison.
Fatima El Hage and Mahmoud Rizk (above), who police have now charged behind bars for allegedly stalking her from Silverwater Prison, where he was locked up for a shooting of a child.
Instead, bullets were fired at three children, one of them hitting the girl, and Rizk fled the failed attack by swimming across the Georges River when a getaway car failed to start.
Rizk, who was also El Hage’s lover, eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring and accepting the murder.
While in custody awaiting trial on the charges, in March last year he allegedly harassed Ms El Hage from inside Silverwater Metropolitan Remand Prison.
NSW Police Raptor Squad arrested Rizk in Silverwater in July 2023 and charged him with stalking and causing fear of physical or mental harm.
The charge was heard at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday, but his identity has not been revealed until now while he was still awaiting trial for his role as a driver of the mafia group. The mastermind behind the assassination attempt has never been identified.
Rizk’s alleged harassment of Ms. El Hage is just one of a series of traumatic incidents he has suffered.
Mahmoud Rizk was arrested after a nine-year-old girl was shot in the hip during a botched hit on a Brothers 4 Life gang member in Connells Park in 2022.
After the nine-year-old girl was shot in the hip while unpacking groceries in her Dr Seuss pajamas, she asked her mother, “Am I going to die?”
Ms El Hage is suing New South Wales Police for trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder following the shooting of her lover Kemel ‘Blackie’ Barakat’ as they lay side by side in bed in 2017.
The couple were sleeping at around 2.30am on March 10, 2017 when killers burst into their unit in Mortlake, in the south of the city, and executed him under a hail of bullets.
She was later accused during a court trial of one of Barakat’s conspirators of being involved, but was completely exonerated.
Last year, El Hage was also left traumatized after a $400,000 Lamborghini Huracan rented by her new husband, Mahmoud ‘Bargo’ Bargshoon, was set on fire.
Witnesses saw two people carrying jerrycans moments before the fire broke out on a street in Olympic Park, western Sydney, with the 724 Coupe bursting into flames at 2.30am, causing the vehicle to melt on the road. .
Then a voluptuous portrait of El Hage sitting on her builder husband’s lap sparked a text message dispute between her and Bargshoon’s previous girlfriend, a woman named Rose.
Fatima El Hage was stripped of an AVO in her name by police after she was allegedly harassed by a former lover behind bars after he was jailed for his role in the shooting of a girl, 9
The Lamborghini rented by Fatim’s husband, valued at $400,000, was set on fire by two people with a jerrycan on a street in the Olympic Park, where it melted.
Rose claimed that a watch that can be seen on El Hage’s left wrist in the photo is an $18,000 diamond Rolex, which he lost at Bargshoon’s home in late August 2022.
When Rose and Bargshoon’s three-month relationship ended, she confronted him about the watch, and he denied having it.
Rose repeatedly texted him about the watch and El Hage firmly denied the allegations on her husband’s behalf, saying “my husband is a billionaire.” He would never steal a watch.
Fatima El Hage’s planned lawsuit against the police and the state for the murder of Kemel Barakat sought millions in compensation for “illegal detention and endangering her life.”
At the time, El Hage was unaware of Barakat’s links to known criminals and bikers and the pair were in a secret relationship, but he says he thought he had met the love of his life.
Ms El Hage was in a secret relationship with Kemel Barakat when assassins broke into his room and shot him dead in an underworld attack in 2017.
She recalls Barakat waking up and instantly ‘patting’ her to the other side of his custom-made king-size double bed as he was being shot. With his face buried in her blankets, she was sure the attackers would be the next to target her.
“I always wonder why they let me go,” he told Daily Mail Australia. “I want to know why they let me live.”
During the 2020 NSW Supreme Court trial of Barkat’s former friend Ahmed Jaghbir for being an accessory to the murder, Ms El Hage was questioned and accused of being involved in some way.
Jaghbir was found guilty of handing 29-year-old Barakat’s killers a key to his Mortlake unit after helping ‘Blackie’ fix the door to his house, which police had broken down.
A judge found the evidence El Hage gave during the trial to be “honest” and “largely consistent” and said “it was difficult to imagine the horror of what he experienced that night.” She also thought they were going to kill her.