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Organized crime: forced retirement for the ex-chief of the Hells Angels, Salvatore Cazzetta

For Cazzetta, who was no longer unanimous within the Hells after having been considered one of the most influential actors in organized crime in Quebec for three decades, it is a forced retirement akin to a expulsion.

The 67-year-old biker, who led the Hells between 2011 and 2016, had no intention of leaving the ranks of the powerful criminal organization, according to our sources.
But other influential members of the band would however have strongly suggested that he leave “on good terms” by abandoning his “patches” of the Hells of the Montreal chapter that he had worn for nearly 17 years.
“There are a lot of movements in the criminal world at the moment, alliances are changing and Cazzetta no longer has its place” among the dominant forces of organized crime in Montreal, explained to us a police source well aware of the situation.
Nicknamed "Sal" or "The Beard" in the underworld, was last seen sporting his Hells jacket in late October, during a Hells motorcycle ride aimed at mark the sixth anniversary of the founding of their chapter in New Brunswick.
Remember that Salvatore Cazzetta was also one of the founding members of the Rock Machine, the group of bikers who fought a bloody war in the Hells during the 90s. However, Cazzetta did not take part in this murderous war since he was then incarcerated for a conspiracy to import 200 kg of cocaine into the United States.
Another leader dismissed
For at least three years, it is Martin Robert, whose sumptuous wedding in downtown Montreal had hit the headlines in December 2018, that the police consider the leader of the Hells in Quebec.

Normally, the Hells take a vote at a meeting when it comes to removing a member in good standing from their ranks, according to their internal regulations, but it was not possible to know if this was necessary in Cazzetta's case.

However, this is what the Hells had done in March 2014 by adopting, unanimously, during an "East Coast" meeting of all their Quebec members, the expulsion "on good terms" of their fallen leader, Maurice “Mom” Butcher.
The latter, who died of cancer last July while serving a life sentence for having ordered the murders of two prison guards in 1997, has never digested his rejection of the Hells and even thought of taking revenge, according to police documents obtained by our Investigation Office and cited in the book Le Parloir.
Avoid internal purges
Other Hells Angels known but less influential than Salvatore Cazzetta have also left the gang on good terms over the past decade, including Claude Berger, a member of the Sherbrooke chapter who was also a trumpet player with the Orchester symphonique de Québec, and Michel Lajoie-Smith, a member of the South chapter who was among the leaders of the Montreal drug market.
According to the club's internal regulations, there are two ways to leave the Hells: on good terms (or "good standing") and on bad terms ("bad standing").

By using the soft method to force members to leave, the Hells Angels thus avoid internal purges and break with the radical methods of the past, which we saw in particular during the biker war between 1994 and 2002.
One thinks, among others, of member in good standing Scott Steinert, whose skull was smashed with a hammer in 1997 in the Hells bunker in Sorel and whose body was found on the banks of the St. the following year, or to the gang's ex-number 2, Louis "Melou" Roy, whom the gang disappeared in June 2000 for a dispute related to cocaine trafficking.