Heads rolled in 2019 within organized crime, whether among bikers, street gangs or the Italian mafia. Nearly 20 murders attributable to criminal groups have been committed in the greater metropolitan area in the past year. Two of the most significant assassinations are undoubtedly those of the Salvatore and Andrew Scoppa brothers, two big names in the Italian mafia in Montreal. The first was the victim of a resounding murder in May during a family celebration in a hotel in Laval. His big brother Andrew, a famous mafia clan leader, also fell under the bullets in late October, in the west of the metropolis.