The importance of street gangs in Quebec's criminal ecosystem | Isabelle Richer
The rise of the street gangs.
Sorry, this video is in french, but I guess some of ya’ll are from Montreal.
Before, there was three major organizations in the criminal world of Montreal. You had the Italian mafia (Cotroni and after the Rizzuto’s), the Bikers (hells angels) and the Irish Mob (west end gang). Today, we could say that the irish mob is not one of the major factor anymore. Sure you got some irish gangster that still hold weight, but they are not one of the top factors anymore.
Montreal, got many criminal groups, you have the lebanese, the turks, the algerians and morrocans, the greeks, the africans (like congoleses or cameroonian), the black-anglo (jamaicans, scottians or other west indies) and the haitians.
Before, you had the big three, italian mafia, hells angels and irish mob.
But today, in 2024, could we say that the big three of montreal are the Bikers (hells angels), the italian mafia and the street gangs ? And more specifically, the haitian street gangs that have became groups of organized crime ? People like Woolley, Celestin, Mompoint, Cadet and their groups.
