What clan does Sergio Piccirilli belong to? I hate how in Canada mob guys don't have clearly defined roles and ranks and membership unlike in the US.

Sergio Piccirilli is from the D’Amico clan of Granby.


For the ranks, i really don’t know.

Luigi D'Amico was deported back Italy but I don't know where in Italy and I think it's a good chance he's passed away by now. The last report had at least one of the sons has been living in the Dominican Republic and the government was going after them pretty hard for owed taxes that added up into the millions.

It's said the Silvano brothers are running the drugs in Granby now.

Crazy that many factions of organized crime from montreal operate in the dominican republic.
The rizzuto’s had or maybe still have casinos over there.
The quebec HAs open a HA chapter in the dominican republic.
And many haitian gangsters from montreal have houses, clubs in the DR.
Also there are prostitution rings in the DR run by haitians from montreal.

Yep the Rizzuto’s would have hit him but the failed hit on Desjardins by Roger Valiquette (if we believe Andrew Scoppa) changed everything and caused Desjardins to kill Montagna with Mirarchi’s help.

Also on the theory someone posted about Mirarchi possibly being behind the failed hit on Leo Rizzuto, I thought Mirarchi made peace with the Rizzuto’s around the time the story leaked that Mom and crew (with Rizzuto help) was planning to hit Raynald in prison? Wasn’t there a story claiming that or am I wrong? We haven’t heard much of anything about Vic and Raynald’s partnership since he’s gotten out of prison

The rule of thumb here is, once you become powerful, it's only a matter of time before someone challenges you.

I think if Leonardo is replaced , the next leader will be of Sicilian origin from Cattolica Eraclea or Siculiana not necessarily born there. No matter how loyal Sollecito is, he does not qualify.

I'll disagree with that. Right now as far as we know Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito are co leaders. Both are equal neither out ranks the other. But we know that Stefano Sollecito is more respected and Leonardo Rizzuto is viewed as weak. If something were to happen to Leonardo Rizzuto I don't think anyone would replace him as this equal co leader with Stefano Sollecito.

There were the tapes that had Sollecito implicate Leonardo is weak, right? Any other sources? I don't know how accurate the Scoppa book is, but it made Sollecito look like a greedy guy who kills too many people for too little reason, when I remember right. And even Vito was telling Scoppa murders were not coming from him, but people were pushing him to authorise them. Maybe that's what he wanted Scoppa to think. Maybe that's what he wanted Scoppa to tell everybody he was talking to. And right now, it seems things like that are whats getting Sollecito into trouble through Silvas cooperation. So the ill guy near death, who got lot of competition out of the way, will soon take the blame and others get a pass?

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...vise-par-un-incendie-criminel-a-montreal

“Significant damage”: a restaurant targeted by an arson attack in Montreal

What's up with all of these arsons? Just kill whoever you wanna kill already.

Some of the arsons are linked to the mafia.
But many of them are also link to lebanese organized crime. Specially in Laval. Many restaurants don’t want to pay for protection, so they burn their buisness.
And the owner has to close, because the insurance doesn’t want to insured them again.

That is right, and if you happen to own a house next door to these Cafe's/restaurant . The insurance companies will make you pay high premiums.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...e-stupefiants/cinq-suspects-arretes.php#

Five suspects arrested

Le commerce d’un mafieux visé par une attaque :
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2023/08/02/un-commerce-vise-par-des-projectiles-a-montreal-est

It's amazing, someone really dislikes this guy. They are relentless.

^^^^
Des coups de feu visent un commerce lié à un mafieux
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-visent-un-commerce-lie-a-un-mafieux.php

Could all of this aggression towards Pizzi be because he linked up with HA, similar to Del Balso?

with pizzi at this point who knows?

a few theories though or possible enemies.

1. the rizzuto/sollecito faction, still being led by leonardo and stefano.

2. davide barberio-these 2 were thought to have partnered up to control r.d.p and mtl north, perhaps there was a falling out.

3. another as yet unknown mafia cell clearly using young fearless street gang members/associates.


who it is not

1. francesco del balso-he is dead, and no known close associates have been alleged to have taken up his rackets.

2.a mexican cartel- i say this only because pizzi has been long described as a high level cocaine importer, however as most on here would agree the cartels do not play around with arsons and pot shots at cars. the M.O. being used is straight up mtl mafia 101 so i think we can eliminate any cartel.

3. HA - if pizzi is alleged to be allied with them (robert/plouffe faction) and was with del balso then what chapter would be instigating these assaults?

-a reason for this continued aggression also has yet to be revealed. is it over the book/gambling, an unpaid drug debt or failed import???

Agreed, if Stefano is still active (many rumors say his cancer has had him out) he’s definitely the boss if Leonardo is killed or goes away. Don’t forget that Vito also put Arcadi in charge on the street when he was deported so I don’t think birthplace matters much.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-de-coiffure-evacuations-preventives.php

Arson in a hair salon, preventive evacuations

(Montreal) An arson attack targeting another business in Montreal forced the evacuation of tenants located nearby, in the middle of the night, as a preventive measure.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...un-vus-detruit-par-le-feu-lundi-soir.php


An SUV destroyed by fire on Monday evening

Canada is the Wild West. I find it insane the amount of mob related hits/violence here, and the US there isn’t any really. The hits over the last 15 years must be into 4 figures+.

Meurtre de la belle-fille d’un mafieux: le «cerveau» de l’assassinat arrêté à Toronto
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...no-un-deuxieme-suspect-arrete-en-ontario


Le SPVM arrête un deuxième suspect
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...o/le-spvm-arrete-un-deuxieme-suspect.php

According to our information, Ms. Iacono would have been the victim of a mistake about the person and it was her spouse who would have been targeted that day.
According to our sources, the attack that resulted in the death of Ms. Iacono was a response to the attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto, youngest son of the late mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, on March 15 in Laval. .

What do ya’ll think about the husband ?
He probably wanted to revenge is father’s death.
But now, he lost his wife. And probably will want more revenge.

And do ya’ll think the rizzuto’s got no choice but to kill him ?

Also the lapresse and the journal de montreal have two conclusion about the hit.

Lapresse:

According to our information, Ms. Iacono would have been the victim of a mistake about the person and it was her spouse who would have been targeted that day.
According to our sources, the attack that resulted in the death of Ms. Iacono was a response to the attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto, youngest son of the late mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, on March 15 in Laval. .

Journal de montreal:

Everything suggests that the murder of Claudia Iacono was not a mistake on the person and that the businesswoman was indeed the target of this attack.


So the two news say two different things.
She was the target and she was not the target…. What do ya’ll think ?

Considering Anthony Gallo has been targeted since his father was shot dead in Mexico, he was probably the target again.

Both articles have been updated to add the name of this newest suspect: Tyranne Andre Greenidge.

^^^^
Second suspect arrested in killing of former Mafia leader's daughter-in-law
https://montrealgazette.com/news/crime/police-arrest-second-suspect-in-claudia-iacono-killing

Second arrest in shooting death of Claudia Iacono, Montrealer killed in May
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/08/14/claudia-iacono-second-arrest-shooting-death/

Police arrest second suspect in Ontario in Claudia Iacono killing
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/police-...ario-in-claudia-iacono-killing-1.6518725

Un deuxième suspect arrêté dans l’affaire du meurtre de Claudia Iacono
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2003195/meurtre-claudia-iacono-arrestation-mafia-montreal

THE INVESTIGATION

Canada at gunpoint, the great war for the control of coca in the port of Montreal: a long trail of blood between bosses of Italian origin
Canada-investigation: the drug war for control of the port of Montreal is bloodying the country

July 29, 2023 at 07:00
2 minute read

Canada at gunpoint, the great war for the control of coca in the port of Montreal: a long trail of blood between bosses of Italian origin
You don't need followers, who are many (37,000), to tell the figure (and the genesis) of the murder of Claudia Iacono, mother of two, killed at 39 in Montreal at 4.28 pm on 18 May last. Parking of the Salon Deauville between Jean-Talon and De La Savane streets in Montreal, six shots fired while the woman is parking the SUV in the "Il Triangolo" shopping area. Mafia ambush. Doubts? Zero.

Because more than social networks are related: Claudia was the wife of Anthony Gallo, daughter-in-law of Moreno Gallo, boss of the Canadian Cosa Nostra, in the past historically linked to the Rizzuto clan (later betrayed by him) killed on November 10, 2013 in Acapulco with nine shots gun from a killer dressed in black who surprised him at the table (at dinner) in the "Forza Italia" restaurant. Three months ago, Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the boss Vito escaped an ambush on the provincial highway 440 in the jurisdiction of the Sûreté du Québec. Two of him shoot 6 9-gauge shots at him, the side of the Mercedes GLE 53 becomes Swiss cheese, they wound him in the shoulder and chest, he manages to continue his run by hiding in the parking lot of a funeral home. Miraculously alive.

Courses and appeals. Bullets bouncing from field to field. Blood calling for blood. Keep an eye on the dates: November 10, 2010 - the same day and month as Gallo - Nick Rizzuto was killed. He was having lunch at home in Montreal, a sniper shot him with a precision pointer. A sniper. He died at 86 years old. Exchange of rude anniversaries, one might say.

For Canadian investigators - ca va sans dire - the track sinks into this never dormant war between Calabrian and Sicilian criminals, a decades-long "question and response", interspersed with fragile mafia pax that roots in times when - that is - the Rizzuto organized the "Sicilian takeover" in 1978, of the Montreal mafia by the Cotroni organization, people from Calabria. A feud with losses (dozens of dead) for both groups: bosses, solicitors, traffickers and drug dealers, businessmen and half-socks: lead does not question origin and rank.

Antonio Nicaso, essayist, university professor of organized crime in Quebec


But is this enough? Is the ancestral call of revenge, the revenge DNA of mafia and para-mafia groups enough to explain the long trail of blood that colors the map of crimes in North America? It really seems like no. Antonio Nicaso, essayist, university professor of organized crime in Quebec, appropriately widens the compass and his analysis converges with that of several investigators. At stake would be control of the port of Montreal, a "central port of call for the drug market from (and to) New York," he says. Immense spaces, boundless businesses that perhaps also tell why - in these parts - between 2017 and 2019 seven drug traffickers were killed. Detail: based on personnel and investments in the port in question - and until recently - only 20/25 containers were checked per day: less than 1% of those landed on the docks from all over the world. And then there is the soft underbelly of border territories: Indian reservations where there is no national sovereignty. "They are ideal corridors for transporting drugs and weapons." It is no coincidence that the Canadian route is considered one of the most appropriate for attributing the so-called "virginity license" to containers with respect to the risk parameters used by the border police in investigating shipments also linked to transit ports.

"Moreover - adds Nicaso - there is the theme of synthetic drugs in whose trials Canada is the leading country in the world". Another planetary business. “By now in North America, Fentanyl has completely supplanted cocaine. They are very strong drugs and they cost less - explains the teacher - they have synthesized heroin, they are synthesizing cocaine with pink cocaine, they have synthesized cannabinoids with a much higher thc and a lower cost than, for example, that guaranteed in countries where marijuana has been legalized.

The 'Ndrangheta is not competing for this world: an equation, this, betrayed by the official papers that disengage the Calabrian group of the Rizzuto clan from a pure affiliation. Instead, there is a criminal "melting pot" that records "Calabrian, Sicilian, Apulian and even French-Canadian components," says Nicaso. And the 'Ndrangheta? He doesn't participate in the war, he dribbles in midfield and observes: «Clearly, if the Calabrian component of the Rizzutos were to win, they would benefit from it». But the surnames that return – Mammoliti, Montagna, Violi, Luppino – are only descendants. Far enough away for no one from Calabria to intervene to stop the hostilities.

https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2023...p;state=91073b3fced2477ebab6ec196b7d442f