The police fear the return of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins
The imminent release of boss Raynald Desjardins, heralded as the event of the year in organized crime, could reignite a bloody war with his rivals in the Montreal mafia.
This will be the most important event in organized crime since the return to the country of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto in 2012 after being imprisoned in the United States for his participation in murders, â€commented a police source, recalling that Desjardins is at loggerheads with the Rizzuto clan, of which he was once a close collaborator. Fight to finish Several police forces are preparing for a war to be ended between the veteran Desjardins, who is associated with the Calabrian wing of the mafia, and the new generation of the Rizzuto clan led by the son of the late godfather, Leonardo Rizzuto, and Stefano Sollecito, son of ex-interim chief Rocco Sollecito. According to our sources, it would be "very unlikely" that the Sicilian clan and that of Desjardins, both decimated by dozens of murders since 2004, come to cohabit peacefully. Rather, the authorities predict that the two enemy groups will come to confront each other to "make a master" once and for all, using firearms. In the police community, it is reported that the animosity of the Rizzuto-Sollecito clan is still alive in the place of Desjardins, which an informer in Italy has already identified as the one who "led the war" against the Rizzutos.
In addition, Raynald Desjardins himself was the target of a plot to kill him in a penitentiary in 2015. It is none other than the former head of the Hells Angels, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, who admitted his guilt in this case in which the gang leader Gregory Woolley, closely linked to the sons Rizzuto and Sollecito, was also indicted. then released. New soldiers The police also believe that Desjardins, who still has considerable financial means, has already surrounded himself with new "soldiers" to protect him and help him get revenge. The boss would have taken advantage of the time he was incarcerated in a maximum security penitentiary in the Maritimes to ally with the Spryfield MOB, a violent gang from Nova Scotia which has been raining and shining in this province for two decades (see other text below). The presence in the Montreal area of ​​certain individuals linked to this gang is arousing police interest and apprehension within the Mafia, according to our sources.
Desjardins] possibly thinks it comes from [Stefano] Sollecito, for a lot of reasons. Sollecito may be the first person to whom Raynald Desjardins' doubts have gone. " “Desjardins waged war on Vito [Rizzuto], we all know that. Sollecito [...] is on Rizzuto's side. His son, Me Leonardo Rizzuto, is with you in the alliance you have made. " “It was easy to see that for about a month, Sollecito had feared greatly for his life. [...] It does not take the head with Papineau to know that Desjardins, it will take revenge. "
HANDS OF THE MARITIMES
Raynald Desjardins recruited his new henchmen from a penal colony in the Maritimes where he had been transferred after his head was put on a price by his rivals in Quebec in the fall of 2015. The unlikely alliance between the mob boss and Spryfield M.O.B. is believed to have originated at the Atlantic Prison, a maximum security penitentiary located in Renous, New Brunswick. According to sources from our Bureau of Investigation, Desjardins met another prisoner there, Brian James Marriott - alias "BJ" or Brian James Brumner, his mother's last name - who was incarcerated for manslaughter. and drug trafficking. Marriott is one of the chief executives of the Spryfield M.O.B. Coming from a suburb of Halifax, this independent gang of criminals has been embroiled in a multitude of murders, bloody internal strife and other acts of violence in that province for two decades. Armed and dangerous “Marriott was the boss of his wing [detention wing] in Renous. When Desjardins got to his wing, he told her he had a contract on his mind. They made a deal and Marriott took care of protecting him. He is a very dangerous person, "according to one of our sources, who demanded that his identity be withheld for fear of reprisal. When Marriott left the penitentiary, he moved to Montreal, in the borough of Saint-Laurent, two years ago. Other members of his clan followed him. In addition to being suspected of being involved in interprovincial drug trafficking, some are said to be busy accumulating handguns and high-caliber assault weapons, according to our reports. In July 2019, Marriott and four of his Nova Scotian comrades were arrested following a violent brawl at a Griffintown bar where seven other people, including a police officer, were injured. The 38-year-old gangster, who is charged with inflicting aggravated assault on three alleged victims, has yet to be tried in Montreal. These charges, however, resulted in him being returned to detention in his home province for violating release conditions decided by a judge. Marriott, who learned French during a stay at Donnacona Penitentiary, near Quebec, must stand trial for the murder of a fellow inmate at Dartmouth prison, committed in December 2019 along with 14 other defendants. The current detention of Marriott does not, however, prevent his cronies from preparing for the return of Desjardins, according to our sources.
