35 YEARS OF HISTORY OF THE STREET GANGS IN QUEBEC
Street gangs have been in Montreal for 35 years now.
Here are 10 events that marked their eventful history and shaped their evolution in Quebec.

1984
At the age of 19, Beauvoir Jean founded the first street gang in Montreal-North, the Master B, which later became the Bo-Gars. One of his emulators in this area of the Reds is the trafficker Bernard "Tipon" Mathieu, leader of the street gang Pelletier, who was then expelled from Canada. Rival gangs of Haitian origin also settle in the neighborhood

1998
Le Syndicate devient le premier gang de rue mont­réalais à travailler étroitement avec les Hells Angels qui veulent ainsi accen­tuer leur mainmise sur le marché de la drogue. Ce groupe est fondé par Gregory­­­­ Woolley (en bas à droite sur la photo), un ex-membre des Master B, aussi réputé comme étant le premier Noir admis comme membre d’un club-école des Hells.

2002
Quebec City is shaken by Operation Scorpion as the police dismantle a large network of juvenile prostitution to notable clients, operated by the street gang Wolf Pack. Among the 11 condemned pimps, the head of the network, Nerva Lovinski, will receive six years' imprisonment.

2006
Les gangs de rue commencent à sévir dans les banlieues et en région, où ils mènent des « incursions criminelles », constate le Service du renseignement criminel du Québec. Cinq ans plus tard, les corps policiers de la province rapportent que les gangs ont commis un total de 1251 crimes au Québec en 2011, dont 1031 à Mont­réal.

2010
On March 18, three gunmen fired 70 projectiles inside the Flawnego, a shop in Old Montreal owned by gang leader Ducarme Joseph. The latter was absent, but his bodyguard and one of his uncles are killed. The shooting also caused two serious injuries. Joseph, founder of gang 67, was suspected of murdering the eldest son of Montreal mafia boss Nick Rizzuto Jr., who was killed three months earlier.

2012
On August 10, Chénier Dupuy, the leader of the Bo-Gars, is riddled with bullets in the parking lot of Galeries d'Anjou. His compatriot Lamartine Severus Paul suffered the same fate in Laval. These veterans of the Reds opposed the eventual alliance that was about to be concluded with the Blues to work together in a business partnership with the Hells Angels and the mafia. Dupuy, who had made the war with the Blues, said that there was no question that he would become "a lecherous bécyc", speaking of bikers.

2013
On January 22, Gaétan Gosselin, a friend of the mafia boss Raynald Desjardins, was murdered in Montreal North. Nine days later in Saint-Léonard, the same killers eliminate another close to the mafia, Vincenzo Scuderi. Five members of a Red Street gang are then arrested and sentenced. The alleged leader of this mafia-controlled commando, Harry Mytil, was himself liquidated in the spring of 2013, paying with his life for the mistakes of his henchmen.

2014
On August 1, the formidable gang leader Ducarme Joseph, whose head was priced by the mafia, is shot dead in the street, in the Saint-Michel district. A follower of voodoo, he wore an amulet to protect himself. It is said that "Kenny" Joseph, who had even tried to steal a cargo of narcotics from the Hells Angels in 1999, believed himself invincible.

2018
On October 26, Gregory Woolley, considered the number one street gang and one of the leading organized crime leaders in Quebec, was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism. He was arrested in 2015 with other members of the Syndicate, two heads of the Montreal Mafia and some Hells Angels.