http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...es-hells-angels-ont-detrone-la-mafia.phpOrganized crime: the Hells Angels have dethroned the mafia
The Hells Angels are now at the very top of the organized crime pyramid in Quebec.
They have dethroned the mafia, which has occupied this place for more than 30 years, while the police have found in recent months that, in certain circumstances at least, chieftains have had to pay rebates of several thousand dollars to bikers for get the right to operate their business in the territories of these, revealed police sources to La Presse.
These same sources do not observe the same movement for the benefit of the mafia which has, for the moment, no leaders who stand out.
"We no longer see any odds rising to the leaders of the mafia. All we see are ratings that go up to the bikers and even from the Italians. "
An informant
Such a portrait would have been unimaginable in the beautiful days of Vito Rizzuto, where the godfather, respected throughout the criminal world, ruled with an iron fist at the very top of the organized crime pyramid in Quebec.
One year to the day after Operation Magot-Mastiff of the Sûreté du Québec, which decapitated the Alliance - mafia-bikers-street gangs - this structure set up by Vito Rizzuto, first to protect his rear during of his return to Montreal in 2012, then to resume his title of godfather and keep control, no longer exists.
The natural death of the godfather in December 2013 torpedoed the Sicilian clan. The Magot-Mastiff strike was another blow, so much so that the weakened and disorganized mafia gave way to the Hells Angels, which became the number one criminal organization in Quebec since the SharQc trial ended abruptly and the release of dozens of members in good standing, we were told.
According to our sources, organized crime in Quebec is currently controlled by the Hells Angels, who are setting up a "superstructure" guided by "a committee of decision makers" that the police place at the very top of the pyramid.
NEW BRUNSWICK AND ONTARIO
According to our information, this committee of decision makers would consist of Mario Brouillette - who has yet officially announced his withdrawal from the Hells Angels -, the member in good standing of Montreal Martin Robert and the brothers Sylvain and François Vachon, of the group of five irreducibles who benefited from a stay of proceedings in the SharQc trial in October 2015.
In addition to this committee of decision-makers, the Hells Angels have a lieutenant in each of the regions of Quebec and count on several school clubs, of which about 160 members, according to a police assessment, have been observed acting directly for the "big club". The Hells Angels have also joined forces with the 80 members now at large in the three active sections, Montreal, Trois-Rivières and South.
"Even though they have three sections, they decided to work together. Trois-Rivières, Montreal and South, it could be a single chapter. The territories are all mixed. "
- A source
Our informants estimate that thanks to this superstructure, the Quebec Hells Angels control at least 80% of all Quebec, including territories of Montreal formerly under the control of the mafia, extended their tentacles in New Brunswick and increased their influence in Ontario.
Officials of the Regional Mixed Squads (ERM) of the Sûreté du Québec, who have the mandate to fight motorcyclists, refused to comment on the information obtained by La Presse.
"The Hells Angels have been a fixture in the organized crime scene in Quebec for almost 40 years. The fight against organized crime remains a priority for us and our partners. "
- Guy Lapointe, captain of the SQ
While the Hells Angels are at the top of their game, the Montreal mafia has no real leader since Operation Magot-Mastiff and the consecutive murders of three major members of the Rizzuto clan in 2016, say our sources.
COLLABORATION WITH MAFIA
The reign of the Sicilians seems over and the Mafia Table of Management, set up after the natural death of Vito Rizzuto in December 2013 and to which the various clans were to pay their taxes, is dissolved.
The police do not rule out, however, that the Montreal mafia can once again have its godfather or a leader one day, and families in Toronto and even Italy have a say in the choice that will be made.
Despite the upheaval in the organization chart of organized crime in Quebec, there is no animosity between bikers and mafiosi, even as individuals from both groups rub shoulders regularly and work together, according to our sources, making the line that separates Hells Angels and mafia more and more diffuse.