That's Raymond Desfossés, not Desjardins.

Yes I know ! Ray goes way back very dangerous guy. In the summer of 1991, Desfossés was photographed attending the wedding of Milena Di Maulo and Francesco Cotroni Jr., son of Cotroni crime family boss Frank Cotroni, at the Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in Montreal.

Oh

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...e-chez-le-chef-du-clan-des-siciliens.php

The police search the house of the head of the Sicilian clan

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...vra-purger-quatre-ans-de-penitencier.php

Tony Accurso will have to serve four years in prison

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-accurso-appeal

Supreme Court refuses to hear Accurso appeal

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...-chez-le-cochef-de-la-mafia-montrealaise

Look like the alliance between Rizzuto-Sollecito-Woolley could be near its end.

Do ya’ll think this could be the end for the rizzuto’s ?

The enemies just got to wait

I don't know how you got that it may be the end of the Rizzutos from that article. Please explain further.

I think the rationalization might be that if Sollecito is arrested on murder charges, or passes away due to illness, he takes the muscle for the Sicilian faction with him. Or perhaps the window to take another shot at Leo R. opens again. I'm not so sure about that.

This is just my opinion but I think the end of the Rizzuto's was already heading there with or without this search. There are just too many rivals going after them. The Sicilian clan will still exist as I said before they are resilient and have plenty of Sicilian recruits to draw from but it will not be as powerful as it once was. The HA have rearranged the distribution of power and alliances in Montreal and it does not favor the Rizzuto's. I think there is this new alliances being forged with HA, Hamilton and Toronto mafia's but I could be wrong; it's just a theory of mine. Vito Rizzuto was the glue that held everything together and his departure has left a big vacuum to fill. He even forecasted it himself at the time of his arrest that there will be chaos with his departure. If this search has anything to do with Silva being an informant then it may be sooner than later.

Could we say desjardins is in a good posture now ?
Mirarchi is probably top 3, if not top 2 most powerful mobster in Quebec. And I guess they are still cool ?
And his son is linked to the most powerful HAs in Quebec.

He hardly leaves his house anymore and some say he is on the verge of death, ”said a police source.

Stefano's death could change things again in favor of other groups.

I tend to mostly agree with you. I think Martin is protecting Desjardins and I also think Mirarchi is much closer to HA than most people think. He is a good earner and has powerful connections. It's been said that he sometimes drives around with SUV's owned by HA. . If it's true that Mirarchi is really part of the Ndrangheta he may have earned to be in charge of a Ndrine in Montreal with ties to HA. I don't think there will be one supreme leader in charge of all the Italian mafia as there was before in Montreal. I think it will be more likely what there is in Toronto. You have the Ndrangheta coexisting with the other mafia's or HA willing to do business with them. There will be conflicts from time to time but that is part of doing business. Also Barletta ties to the Toronto Ndrangheta and joining Montreal HA will strengthen that relationship. But of course all this is based of theories.

If Stefano Sollecito dies it'll be a huge blow to them but they'll still have the ability to stay as the top clan in Montreal. Leonardo Rizzuto is viewed as a soft leader by a lot of guys in Montreal Stefano Sollecito even held this opinion of him in 2015. It'll be a true test of his leadership ability and he'll have to show people he's capable. Maybe someone else with a better reputation will rise and replace Stefano Sollecito and help keep the balance of power. Someone is bound to challenge them again.

The information Frederick Silva is sharing with police is a big problem for a lot of guys not only with the Rizzutos but others in Montreal. When the arrests happen they'll have major ramifications for the criminal landscape in Montreal.



Hard to say because we haven't heard much about him. Andrea Scoppa said Raynald Desjardins and Vittorio Mirarchi were on the outs. Let's not forget his daughter was named in a drug trafficking investigation a little over a month ago linked with the Hells Angels.



Where has it been said Vittorio Mirarchi drives Hells Angels vehicles?

Here you go Mafia 101 :

On page 35 Business or Blood authors Peter Edwards & Antonio Nicasso

If any body wonders why Mirarchi has nine lives. Consider the following:

La Presse Jul.11,2021

A court document reveals that, according to the evidence collected during the Clemenza investigation - which has never been tested in court -, however, Crivello and Pizzi would have made transfers of more than 2.3 million to Mexico and the United States for imports of cocaine from Vittorio Mirarchi.

The RCMP, which investigated Mirarchi during Project Clemenza, estimates that the young clan leader would have imported or conspired to import 1.4 tons of cocaine during 11 months around 2010-2011, according to court documents.

Thank you Ciment

Journal de Montreal Dec. 09, 2019

The message seems to have been well understood. So much so that Vittorio Mirarchi, former associate of boss Raynald Desjardins suspected of having a vast network of narcotics importation, would also have agreed to be part of this new alliance.     

 "Mirarchi will always do his little business on his side, but nobody can do without a guy like that," says a policeman involved in the fight against mafia.     

Implicated in the assassination of Paolo Violi: an uncle of Vito Rizzuto dies at the age of 89
The landmark murder in 1978 allowed his clan to take over the leadership of the Montreal mafia

One of the uncles who helped Vito Rizzuto become the head of the Montreal mafia died in the last days, at the venerable age of 89.

Domenico Manno passed away on July 22 and his funeral was celebrated today in Montreal.

"He was a remarkable man and a wonderful friend too," read his obituary.

However, Manno had a rather eventful life, marked by various convictions.

He was one of three men convicted for the assassination of Paolo Violi, the predecessor of Vito Rizzuto, then at the top of Italian organized crime in Montreal.

On January 28, 1978, Violi, leader of the Calabrian clan, was shot dead in his Saint-Léonard café, the Reggio Bar.

Manno — the brother-in-law of Vito Rizzuto's father, patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto Sr — had convicted on a conspiracy charge and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Beginning of the reign of the Sicilians

This attack marked the beginning of the reign of the Sicilian clan over the Montreal mafia. A reign that is the subject of a deadly power struggle after Vito Rizzuto was sentenced to eight years in prison in the United States for his role in three murders committed in 1981.

One of Manno's accomplices was Agostino Cuntrera, sentenced to five years in prison for the same crime. Cuntrera, who later became an influential mafioso, was murdered by a gunman on June 29, 2010, in Saint-Léonard.

Five months later, Vito Rizzuto's father was also shot dead in his Cartierville home.

Drug trafficking

In 2012, Manno was released from a US penitentiary in New Jersey, where he had been incarcerated since 1998 on charges of importing cocaine and heroin into Florida.

He also had to pay a fine of $250,000, an amount he tried unsuccessfully to have reduced.

In recent years, he has been involved in transactions involving land, presumably for real estate development, according to reports published by our Investigation Bureau and in La Presse .

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...e-de-vito-rizzuto-meurt-a-lage-de-89-ans

Very good article and post up BM.

That leaves Giovanni DiMora, the other one that was convicted of the assassination. Is he still alive ?
I haven't heard much of him over the past years.

Obituary for Domenico Manno:

http://www.complexeloreto.com/fr/l-avis-de-deces/domenico-manno/

According to other sources consulted by our office, in three police forces, three theories are explored to explain the attack on Leo Rizzuto. Here they are:

The first hypothesis is formulated around the revenge that the kingpin Raynald Desjardins maintains against the Rizzuto clan. Since December 2011, a dozen of his friends or associates, including his ex-brother-in-law Joe Di Maulo, have been victims of settling of scores suspected of having been sponsored by the Sicilian clan. At 69, Desjardins is intimately linked to the Calabrian mafia. During an initial release in 2021, investigators found him escorted by a bodyguard in possession of registration numbers linked to vehicles of members of the Rizzuto clan.

The second hypothesis revolves around an attempt by Calabrian Vittorio Mirarchi to wipe the name of the Rizzutos off the map. Mirarchi was also the protege of Raynald Desjardins, but the strength of his support in the 'Ndrangheta in Ottawa and Toronto made him an extremely powerful criminal. He and Raynald Desjardins are now free after serving time in prison for planning the murder of would-be godfather Salvatore Montagna in 2011.

I thought the Rizzutos killed Salvatore Montagna? It was the Calabrians?

I started a new thread based on Sicilians vs Calabrians. The media in the interest of generating more money are fixated on promoting the fact that Calabrians want to wipe out Sicilians and the same could be said about Sicilian wiping out Calabrians. But is it really the truth. The Arcuri's ,Sciara, Gervasi , Montagna and other were Sicilians who did not side with the Rizzuto's. Musitano Calabrese clan sided with the Rizzuto's. I could go on but I don't want to steal the thunder from the new thread I posted minutes ago.

They wanted to eliminate him but Desjardin and Mirarchi got to him first.

Do someone knows were the mafia clan from Granby (D’Amico family) stand in all of this ?
Before the wars of the Rizzuto’s, the D’Amico’s and the Rizzuto’s almost went to war in 2004.

https://www.lapresse.ca/dossiers/op...9-guerre-de-clans-evitee-de-justesse.php

Clan war narrowly avoided

A Granby family used threats and intimidation for two years to recover $900,000 from leaders of the Rizzuto clan, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have learned during their investigation into the Sicilian Mafia. The conflict almost degenerated into a bloody war.

In a 131-page document accompanying its requests for search warrants, the RCMP recounts this episode in detail, under the title The organization (the Rizzuto clan) experiences a conflict with the D'Amico family of Granby. In January 2004, the chief of the clan, Vito Rizzuto, was arrested at the request of the Americans who accused him of having been involved in a triple murder on behalf of the Bonnano family of New York. His lieutenant, Francesco Arcadi, takes the lead. A month later, Luigi D'Amico telephoned him from his son's restaurant, La Trattoria Saint-Charles, in Granby, to make an appointment.

Late in the afternoon, hidden RCMP cameras reveal the presence of Arcadi, Luigi d'Amico and his son Tiziano in the back office of the Le Consenza social club, which serves as the clan's headquarters. Rizzuto, in Saint-Leonard. We don't know what the men said to each other. But in August 2005, Arcadi explains to a sidekick that the "bikers" of Granby wanted to "cut off his head". He adds that Luigi d'Amico came to him and begged him to meet his other son, Patrizio. Arcadi refused.
Kidnapping

In the same chapter, the RCMP recalls the circumstances of the kidnapping, on Halloween night, of Nicola Varacalli, a man from the Rizzuto clan, close to Francesco Arcadi. The police do not know who the kidnappers are. But it seems that these kidnapped Varacalli to send a message to the Rizzuto clan. Anyway, Arcadi “mentions that in truth he is scared and keeps his eyes open.” He says "there's no more money there, just leftovers."
Negotiations continue with the kidnappers. The RCMP captures a multitude of conversations. Thus, in the Laennec bar, another haunt of the Rizzuto clan in Laval, an Arcadi henchman, Lorenzo Giordano, mentions the name of Patrizio D'Amico, which he associates with the "Frenchmen" (the Hells Angels). He suggests paying half a million dollars now and $400,000 later when Varacalli is released.
A few days after this conversation, Luca D'Amico, Patrizio's cousin, walks into Le Consenza and comes out almost immediately. He delivered a letter to Arcadi, addressed to Nick Rizzuto, Vito's father. Arcadi reads the letter aloud. Clandestine RCMP microphones pick up much of the reading. The author of the letter “seeks a compromise to a dispute, which he believes only Nick Rizzuto can resolve”. A week later, on December 8,
Varacalli is released

But nothing seems to be settled. Two days before Christmas, Patrizio, Luca D'Amico and a third man enter Le Consenza. One of them carries a weapon. The three men come out of the bar and wave to other drivers. A procession of eight vehicles leaves the place. Arcadi is informed and calls his troops to be careful, because "the crazy guy (Patrizio D'Amico) is around".

Arcadi himself is filmed with a gun to the hip. Bodyguards are posted in front of Le Consenza and inside. They accompany the chefs on their travels. Nick Rizzuto, who leads the clan in the absence of his son Vito, brings in four men from Venezuela, most likely killers. It's Patrizio D'Amico's turn to be scared. He advises a relative “to move before they get ready”.
restaurant closed

It is unclear whether and how the conflict was resolved. La Presse tried to reach the D'Amicos, but to no avail. La Trattoria restaurant is closed. The RCMP continues its story by recalling the murder of Domenico Macri, last August, but does not link it to the conflict with the D'Amico family. Arcadi, obviously, feared for his life: he disappeared from circulation for two months. Eager to keep the fort, his henchmen, Francesco Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano, procured armored vehicles and were accompanied by bodyguards.
The day before Macri's funeral, officers saw three gang members with submachine guns and a pistol in a warehouse garage that served as the Italian clan's weapons cache on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in northern Montreal. A week later, the anti-gang brigade raided the area and seized four high-caliber automatic weapons, magazines, several boxes of bullets and two bullet-proof vests.
The D'Amicos were not arrested, unlike most of the leaders of the Rizzuto clan, starting with Nick, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi and Francesco Del Balso. An arrest warrant has also been issued against Lorenzo Giordano, but he has not been found since the raid on November 22.

Amazing that there's really no photos of the D'Amico clan. Are they Sicilian?

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-mafieux-de-granby-menace-dexpulsion.php

During this conflict, an individual with links to the mafia and bikers, Sergio Piccirilli, entered the Consenza displaying a weapon. He and his men also prowled around the café for several days. The soldiers of the Rizzuto clan responded by chartering a helicopter which they allegedly fired with an AK-47 on the roof of the house of one of Luigi D'Amico's sons.


Thats crazzzyyyy…. The granby guys were prepare to do drive-by, hits
The rizzuto’s replied with a shooting from an helicopter wtf….

I just put another article about the D’Amico. There a picture of Luigi D’Amico. But the article don’t say were they are from.

But I wonder why a mafia family made granby there base of operation. Like the only thing granby is known for is its zoo (and i’m not kidding)