In 2010, the fall of the Montreal mafia’s godfather, Vito Rizzuto, gave way to speculation in the world of organized crime: who will replace him? The ambitious young, “millennial gangsters” took advantage of the slowdown of the Rizzuto clan to climb the ladder and assert themselves as masters. Court affairs reporter and host Isabelle Richer presents the work of Peter Edwards and Luis Horacio Najera, journalists who have traced the story of “these young wolves” who are ready for anything.
To read: Young wolves. Mexican cartels, millennial gangsters and technology: the new face of organized crime in CanadaPeter Edwards and Luis Horacio Najera, Éditions de l’Homme, March 21, 2022
Publisher’s Summary: A throne is left after the fall of Rizzutos. Young criminals with long teeth. The most dangerous cartels in the world. A decade of deadly chaos. A man watching the European Cup on the terrace of a Toronto restaurant has died. An ambush near a busy college campus left one dead on the sidewalk. In Playa del Carmen, at a nightclub, a Montreal policeman was shot and wounded. In Nuevo Vallarta, a Canadian was killed in a coffee shop.
In the 2010s, such violence increased, which seemed unrelated to each other. But a deadly thread bound them together. In this great work, Peter Edwards and Luis Horacio Nájera introduced us to the “young wolves” at the origin of this decade’s anarchy.
Source: Radio-Canada
