Come to check on Montreal news and here we are. Interesting...

All fingers pointing to “UNCLE JR”
Leonardo never had the makings of a Varsity athlete.

Sounds like Jr. got a couple of the “Girls from the Hood”
to carry this out.

More analysis.

L’absence de chef commence peut-être à se faire sentir
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...commence-peut-etre-a-se-faire-sentir.php

Would Desjardins be so stupid while under supervision? Or he sees it as the only way to save himself.

very interesting details in last 2 la presse articles by daniel renaud.
now renaud has stated as much since 2019 about the structure of the mafia in mtl and this would confirm that such structure still exists. a vertical group of competing cells working at times together and at times with other OC groups. NOT a pyramid like more traditional italian crime family.

he mentions there being around 10 families or cells operating in the city. i believe in 2019 that number was around the same may have been as high as 13 so not alot of fluctuation in total cells. and renaud further confirms that since 2013 death of VITO RIZZUTO no single person has taken over as #1 BOSS of these 10 or so cells.
it would also confirm that LEONARDO RIZZUTO although may lead a cell it is not the most important or first among equals at all but on par with the other cells in the city.

possible montreal mafia cells (mar 2023)

1.RIZZUTO
LEADER
LEONARDO RIZZUTO

2.SOLLECITO
LEADER
STEFANO SOLLECITO

3.ARCADI/DEL BALSO
LEADER
FRANCESCO ARCADI/ FRANCESCO DEL BALSO

4.PIZZI
LEADER
MARCO PIZZI

5.BARBERIO
LEADER
DAVIDE BARBERIO

6.OLIVERIO/LOPEZ
LEADER
SERAFINO OLIVERIO

7.PIETRANTONIO
LEADER
ANTONIO PIETRANTONIO

8.MIRARCHI
LEADER
VITTORIO MIRARCHI

9.ALBANESE/COLAPELLE
LEADER
FRANCO ALBANESE/CARLO COLAPELLE

10.BASTONE
LEADER
ANTONIO/ROBERTO BASTONE

11.SILVANO
LEADER
PASQUALE/PATRIZIO SILVANO

12.SUCAPANE
LEADER
ALESSANDRO SUCAPANE

-these would be the most prominent names i could pull from the old filing cabinet. i will not attempt at this point to claim who may be allied together after the most recent attempted murder. who is vying for power and a chance at the top seat is unknown at this time. i did not include any reference to a desjardins cell as he is not italian. there would still exist the possibility that the albanese/colapelle cell is in fact working for or still paying a tax to the VIOLI bros out of hamilton. past investigations after 2014 arrest of nicola valvano and colapelle revealed there tobacco import group was paying tax to VIOLIS. this arrangement continued through the olios-median tobacco arrest of domenico agostino et al in 2018. 5-9 years ago i realize but a possibility.

there would also appear to be a somewhat clear divide amongst these cells but again at this point who knows.
historically the first 6 cells listed have worked together and with full patch members of the mtl chapter of hells angels. there has also been past working alliances with gregory woolley allied street gang members but not all street gangs.

cells 8 through 12 have historically never been allied with the RIZZUTO/SOLLECITO,RIZZUTO CRIME FAMILY.
mirarchi obviously because of his past alliance with desjardins and through him joe dimaulo. also because of this mirarchi would have found himself working with the now deceased giuseppe devito. as mentioned previous the albanese/colapelle cell possibly has ties to the VIOLI bros. also colapelles brother giuseppe (murdered 2012) was allied with both mirarchi/desjardins and never worked with the RIZZUTOS. the bastone and silvano cells when busted as part of project clemenza 1/2 in 2014 and 2015 were either reported as being independent or to be working with giuseppe devito. i can recall no media or law enforcement documents alleging they were part of the RIZZUTOS that is for sure. the same can be said for alessandro sucapane and anyonre who possibly lines up with him. sucapane was devitos man on the street after his 2010 capture and imprisonment. there was some reporting that sucapane had fallen in line after the return of VITO RIZZUTO and this is possible considering he wasnt one of the many to be murdered in the ensuing revenge/purge. however sucapane has been fairly inactive and quiet since his release from proj clemenza sentencing.

the major question is where does pietrantonio sit in all this. he was once allied with salvatore montagna and after dec 2011 attempted murder looks to have been active as a cocaine importer for the sinaloa cartel according to testimony at the EL CHAPO trial. he dealt direct with el chapos secretary/#2 alex fuentes villa i believe. that connection is dead after fuentes villa testimony/cooperation but the connect to the cartel may still exist making pietrantonio an important member in montreal. this also may explain his alliance with the 2 newest power players for the HA MARTIN ROBERT AND STEPHAN PLOUFFE. ROBERT it appears is the most influential full patch in quebec if not all of canada and has been linked to several drug networks and large imports of cocaine.

i am NOT stating this is how these cells line up to be clear. there would however exist the possibility that if yet again the mafia in montreal is about to go to war battles lines could be drawn along those lines. there also exists the possibility that there is no sucapane,silvano or bastone cells at all. this list is just a best guess at this point...back to the jays game...happy st pattys day...cheers

I'm betting this came from Desjardins

I wouldn't call Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito as separate cells they're firmly together as one.

Very possible after the plot to kill him in prison was found out

And they killed his brother a very well respected guy.

Ducarme Joseph killed Nicky for Tony Magi. It wasn't Raynald Desjardins.

No Ray his brother Jacques Desjardins I mean in 2017.

Oh misunderstood. But just saying we don't know they took him out.

Yep just another finger possibly pointing Desjardins way. Got to say it's a ballsy move if it is him, but they may have missed their chance for sure because surely he bunkers down now.

Stefano Sollecito and Vito Rizzuto filmed by the police in 2013. In December Vito died.

ANALYSE | Tentative d'assassinat sur Leonardo Rizzuto :
«L'étape de vouloir éliminer cette personne» :
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/03...etape-de-vouloir-eliminer-cette-personne

If the Hells Angels were behind it he would be dead this looks more like streetgangs.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/gangland-canada-will-renewed-montreal-mayhem-spread-to-gta

Will renewed Montreal mayhem spread to GTA?
Published Mar 19, 2023 • Last updated 20 hours ago • 4 minute read

“And dat’s dat.” — Vinnie (Charles Scorsese), GoodFellas

That was the general feeling among underworld observers when Pasquale “Fat Pat” Musitano was rubbed out in the parking lot of a Burlington patio furniture store in July 2020.

The hit ended three years of internecine gangland warfare between rival factions for control of lucrative southern Ontario dope and gambling markets.

But there was much more: Fellow mobsters didn’t like or trust Musitano, a Mafioso nepo baby who overplayed his hand in the 1997 Hamilton hit on underworld paragon Johnny Papalia.

And by the end of that scorching day in 2020, not only was Fat Pat on his way to the morgue, but so was the Musitano crime family.

The rubout of Musitano immediately dialled back the violence that claimed at least a dozen men and one innocent woman.

Nearly three years later, there are stirrings in the organized crime milieu.

Those rumblings are the result of a brazen afternoon hit on mob scion Leonardo Rizzuto, 53, in the Montreal suburb of Laval. The reputed Mafia leader survived the attempt on his life but it could bring ill-tidings to the underworld in Quebec — and Ontario.

At least six bullets were fired at the Mercedes GLE 53 Rizzuto was in.

“When Montreal gets the sniffles, Toronto gets a cold,” Mafia expert Antonio Nicaso told The Toronto Sun.

“Usually, they want to stay under the radar. Violence is very dangerous to their business and normally they will try to avoid any form of violence at all costs.”

Leonardo Rizzuto’s famed father was longtime Montreal boss Vito Rizzuto. Nicaso and others have said junior wasn’t a big player in gangland, but his last name is highly symbolic.

The drug-fueled and heat attracting antics of Montreal North caused concern for mob boss Nicola Rizzuto, pictured, and his Irish allies.
“He is the son of Vito Rizzuto, the target of a shooting … it shows revenge doesn’t have a statute of limitations,” the Queen’s University professor said.

The crime family had split into two factions following the death from cancer of Vito Rizzuto in 2013. And then, the bodies began hitting the pavement.

But as Nicaso noted, bloodbaths are expensive and soon, an uneasy peace took hold. A peace that was fuelled by staggering profits, more than enough for everyone.

“Leonardo Rizzuto was not very active but he had people around him who were loyal to his father. But it appears certain wounds do not heal,” Nicaso added.

And there will be repercussions in Ontario, where peace has bolstered the bottom line.

“Criminal organizations are always more profitable — and dangerous — when they fly under the radar,” Nicaso said. “Canada is a perfect place for them: Complacent politicians and businessmen … it’s a perfect situation.”

However, with new challenges and potential revenue streams, the Mafia maven said sometimes violence is “inevitable.”

As for the mob’s traditional rackets, Nicaso doesn’t believe the legalization of cannabis has hurt the underworld at all. Nor have they taken a hit from legalized gambling.

He said in some areas, mobsters own cannabis dispensaries and supply them with much stronger, illegal weed. Plus, synthetic drugs like deadly Fentanyl are where the money’s at.

Nicaso said that for a $1,500 investment, 1 million tablets can be made and then sold for $5 a pop, resulting in a profit of $5 million.

And online betting? Boffo bucks for the bad guys.

Longtime underworld watcher and author James Dubro agreed that Leonardo Rizzuto was not a particularly powerful mob boss.

He believes Calabrian gangsters and members of Ontario’s many N’drangheta cells are looking to settle scores.

“Montreal is always a battleground. After all, it’s the red zone for organized crime in Canada,” Dubro told the Sun.

That doesn’t mean because Musitano is out of the way that the Mafia is inactive in southern Ontario.

Dubro noted Buffalo crime family underboss Domenico Violi is now back on the streets after being jailed in a monster drug trafficking investigation. Now on parole, Dubro said he is “clearly on the ascent.”

And he has long had a bone to pick with the Rizzutos who backed the Musitano crime family in their criminal machinations over decades.

“So quiet is relative,” Dubro said. “There’s always competition and rivalries in the biker and Mafia worlds, either open [with violence] or just under the surface.”

He added: “It’s the nature of the beast, but with ‘Fat Pat’ and his ragtag family more or less gone it is quieter — for now. But there is a lot simmering under the surface.

“We have no lack of very ambitious and often very violent N’drangheta bosses like the Violis in Ontario.”

Nicaso added: “The Rizzuto hit is one of those events that can have terrifying consequences. Someone was emboldened to do this during a truce … they have been working together. That truce ended a long string of murders.”

“Someone has opened a Pandora’s Box in Montreal. There will be repercussions, especially in Ontario, and many things could happen. I mean, you’ve just tried to kill the son of Vito Rizzuto.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

Two "experts" that have the dumbest takes

Let me guess: they hype the Violis and underestimate Rizzuto’s power?

I don’t know about Dunbro but Nicaso is considered knowledgeable about Calabrians.

So are they saying that they think Ontario and the Violi's are responsible? What happened to Desjardins and Mirarchi? Does anyone really know at this point?

Dubro is saying it could be what happened but the only theory that's more unlikely than that is the Mancuso one take my advice and read the articles written by Canadians in Montreal they're far more reliable than a guy from Boston.

Nicaso is well respected in Italy. Has written dozens of books about the 'Ndrangheta. He will never present information about (something) in a sensational way.

Yes he makes regular collaborations with Nicola Gratteri, a well know anti-Mafia magistrate.

Nicaso is alright on other things but his takes on Montreal are garbage. He thinks everything is some vendetta that has been decades in the making when they're just new power struggles or shootings over criminal activities. There will not be any repercussions in Ontario because of Leonardo Rizzuto's shooting.

Interestingly enough, Anna Sergi, another knowledgeable criminologist that focuses mostly on Italian organized crime abroad, disagrees with the Ontario-scenario and tweeted something similar to what Mafia101 just posted.

Not everything is some major international or nation-wide plot:

People need to keep posting the list of murders and their motives that have occurred as a result of this "war" so we can maintain a clear picture of what's going on.

I still have yet to see a confirmed hit on a mobster by bikers. Confirmed being the keyword here, not speculation, but confirmation.

That was NO MESSAGE JOB...
That was a "SLEEP WITH THE FISHES" near miss Job.....

Mafia, ambush boss Leonardo Rizzuto: shot and wounded in Montreal
Leonardo Rizzuto, last heir of the powerful Cattolica Eraclea mafia family, is considered to be at the top of the Montreal mafia

Posted 7 days agoFrom editorial staff
Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the boss Vito and last heir of the powerful mafia family originally from Cattolica Eraclea, was shot while he was aboard his Mercedes in the Laval district of Montreal. The man, considered by the investigators to be at the top of the Canadian mafia, is not in danger of life. The ambush took place on Wednesday afternoon along highway 440. The news was reported by the overseas media. At least six shells exploded. Rizzuto, after being shot, would continue to drive for at least another two kilometers before stopping near a funeral home between the Highway 13 service road and Principale Street.

The last sighting of Leonardo Rizzuto in Sicily dates back to the summer of 2019 when he returned to Cattolica Eraclea together with his wife and children and together with his sister Libertina, her husband Benny Sciortino and their children to spend a short holiday. They stayed in a b&b in the historic center of Cattolica Eraclea and then spent another short holiday also at the Verdura Resort in Sciacca.

The history of the Rizzuto family starts from Cattolica Eraclea. The progenitor boss Vito Rizzuto was the first to move to the new continent in 1922. Immediately engaged in criminal affairs, he was killed when he was 32 years old. In February 1954, Nicolò Rizzuto, son of Vito, arrived in Canada. Unlike his father, Nicolò arrived in the land of lakes with his family and immediately headed to the big city of Montreal. For over twenty years, heroin trafficking enriched the Sicilian bosses and it is precisely in this perspective that the Caruana and Cuntrera rose to prominence, coincidentally also coming from the province of Agrigento, Siculiana, only 16 kilometers away from Cattolica Eraclea. In 1966 Vito married Giovanna Cammalleri, originally from Cattolica Eraclea, but moved with her family to Toronto, Canada. The most influential bosses attended the wedding. Nick Rizzuto had the opportunity to build an outpost of the family in Venezuela, where he moved in 1973 and where he was able to take advantage of the support of the Caruana Cuntreras, and in that territory he was at the head of the main businesses. Vito Rizzuto, born in 1946 in Cattolica Eraclea, died on December 23, 2013 in Montreal of natural causes after almost eight years in prison during which his rivals had killed his son Nick Jr and his father Nick.

Today the scepter of command - according to news arriving from Montreal - is held by the tandem formed by Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito. Son of Vito the first, who became godfather; son of Rocco Sollecito the second, who was the shadow of Nicola and Vito Rizzuto.