With the new way the SQ is calling some of the gangs of Montreal as Organized crime and the different ethnic groups of those gangs, I had to do a new thread.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...nait/2025-01-13/un-monopole-conteste.phpRebellion against the Hells Angels
THE END OF ORGANIZED CRIME AS WE KNOW IT
In Quebec, gangs are ramping up and shaking the club of criminal bikers. The Sûreté du Québec is adapting to this new reality. A file by Daniel Renaud
"We will no longer see control over the territories of narcotics as the Hells Angels had before. They are challenged by groups that have already been called street gangs, but which are no longer so. For us, they are now criminal organizations," says Chief Inspector Pierre-Mathieu Viviers, big head of intelligence at the Sûreté du Québec.
These gangs, which once provided services to the Hells Angels, have freed themselves, have become autonomous and structured criminal organizations, have contacts elsewhere in Canada or abroad, and now violently challenge their former biker employers.
No question of being water carriers
It is Dave Turmel, leader of the Blood Family Mafia (BFM) in the Quebec City region, who is considered in the media as the first standard bearer, in 2023, of this "rebellion" against the Hells Angels. But in reality, the revolt began two years earlier, led by highly dangerous individuals, according to the SQ.
The Hells Angels' quasi-monopoly on drug trafficking in Quebec, acquired after the biker war that killed 160 people and injured as many during the 1990s, is quite damaged.
Before, in the case of drug trafficking, it was very structured and hierarchical. You had the Hells Angels and people underneath. But here, it is much more fluid, the structure is modified and bittered.
Chief Inspector Pierre-Mathieu Viviers, head of intelligence at the Sûreté du Québec
"We see that these groups are increasingly organized. We realize that in terms of supply, accessibility to narcotics, it is no longer necessarily the monopoly of motorcyclists. They have strong contacts outside, so they become competitive against the usual roads that the Hells Angels had. They no longer have a reason to pay them a fee, "explains Mr. Viviers, according to whom the SQ no longer speaks of a royalty war, but of a conflict aimed at breaking the monopoly or control of the Hells Angels.
To salvage something from the wreckage
According to the Sûreté du Québec, the Hells Angels had to "make compromises" and abandon territories to buy peace or win allies. In other situations, they completely lost the war.
This would be particularly the case in Saguenay, where the independent trafficker who is the second most wanted criminal in Canada, All Boivin, would be in control, at least for the moment.
Other territories have become "grey areas" and could go to one side or the other, because motorcyclists resist.
Street gangs have risen in rank [...] and the Hells Angels are turning to other lucrative operations. Some will step back and try to keep what they can still save, "says Chief Inspector Michel Patenaude, head of criminal investigations at the SQ, according to whom these changes within organized crime are just beginning.
A heavy trend
He even says that the Hells Angels told investigators that they wanted to sell their house and leave their area for security reasons.
In Ontario, the Hells Angels don't control everything and in British Columbia, at least two criminal groups are as powerful as they are. These emerging gangs have direct links to Mexican cartels and elsewhere, especially with Toronto, "adds Pierre-Mathieu Viviers.
