NG - Underworld - Montreal

Montreal is Canada’s second biggest city – and possibly its most colourful. Its geographical ...Montreal is Canada’s second biggest city – and possibly its most colourful. Its geographical location, historical connection with France and language also made it a perfect criminal intermediary between North America and Europe. In the 1950s New York crime boss Joe Bonanno makes Montreal a springboard for the heroin trade. But factions of Sicilians and Calabrians fall out. New York appoints a new leader, Nick Rizzuto. He refocuses the Mafia’s operation to sell cocaine on Montreal’s streets through biker gangs like the Hell's Angels. The Hell’s Angels, under the leadership of Maurice “Mom” Boucher decide they want it all. The resulting war between the Hell’s Angels and all the other biker gangs leaves the city of Montreal strewn with blown up cars, fire bombed buildings and the streets littered with the remains of dead bikers. It all changes when the bikers accidentally kill 11 year old Daniel Desrochers. This galvanizes the public, forcing the Government into action. The largest police operation in the history of the country bags more than 120 bikers and decapitates the leadership of the Hell’s Angels. Today, the Mafia and the Hell’s Angels still control the Montreal drug trade and other underworld endeavours, but they have learned a valuable public relations tool – keep the family disputes within the family.

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