https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/02/28/lemancipation-des-gangsters-millenariauxThe Emancipation of Millennial Gangsters
Quebec's criminal ecosystem is changing slowly, but surely. More and more millennials are taking their place.
Who says millennials says new way of doing and thinking.
These gangsters are narcissistic, egocentric and technology has no secrets for them.
Finally, they have a great ambition, that of changing the criminal world. They want to do things their way and establish a new order. They royally mock phrases like “in my time” and no longer want to submit to territorial constraints or taxes to pay.
As much as the Hells Angels, the mafias and their allies are obstacles to their great liberation movement from coast to coast.
Urban violence
These gangsters are the ones who have caused the most trouble since 2019. Shootings, murders, kidnapping, torture, and so on.
Still, they are here to stay. Both law enforcement and the big players in the criminal ecosystem will have to adjust their practices to successfully control them.
Using technology, they are able to diversify their businesses and create alliances with other millennials across Canada. Last summer, the 43 from Montreal went to lend a hand to the Wolf Pack Alliance in British Columbia.
Millennials no longer stay in their sandbox. They have alliances that go beyond the borders of Quebec.
A latent revolt
In the criminal ecosystem, a revolt has been brewing for several years in the ranks of street gangs. The Bloods, for example, never really agreed to work for the Hells.
The Blood Family Mafia (BFM), which we have heard a lot about these days, is only the tip of the iceberg. Add to this the assassinations of Woolley and Célestin. The price of several Hells henchmen.
This is just the beginning.
And after Scandalous
The Scandalous police operation raised a lot of questions in the criminal ecosystem, especially since information was already circulating that the Hells had asked the police to intervene in the conflict between them and the BFM and a group of traffickers. independent.
The question that kept ringing in my ears: “Did the police clean up for the Hells?”
After all, more than a hundred police officers mobilized to put an end to a conflict that the Quebec chapter did not seem to be able to contain.
Although there are communications between the two parties, the police are not in cahoots with the Hells. They simply targeted people against whom they had enough evidence to make arrests. Their goal was to stem the flow of violence.
The fact remains that the big losers in this story are the Hells Angels, who have certainly lost the respect of the streets. Their symbolic capital as the “big bad wolf” took a big hit.
Scandaleux may have marked a break in this conflict in Quebec, but it is far from having resolved the problem in the province.
