 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition we're always updating you on what's going on up in the great white north more violence popping off this past weekend in Montreal the the great Canadian mafia war is alive and well guys so uh this all has to do with what's this most recent kind of machination of what's happening in there all these wars within wars right now we're kind of talking about the risotto mob the hell's angels and the street gangs so uh street gang leader john philippe celestine aka the butcher he leads the risotto mob street gang faction his brother got killed last month uh then this just in the last 72 hours uh one of his lieutenants a guy by the name of uh jesse furtato benard uh was killed in a brawl at a strip club uh i'm in north shorter montreal at a place called oh gascones um big brawl broke out i believe for a thursday night into friday he was stabbed to death they have a suspect in custody right now and then just on saturday night john philippe celestine's parent's house was riddled with bullets in a drive-by um more you know just explosive dynamics to what's going on there uh the celestine crew is under attack uh they took over for greg woolley who had run the risotto mobs um street gang faction before woolley was assassinated in november uh john philippe took over for greg woolley at the behest of the risotto mob at the end of last year and now it's just been one thing after the other in 2024 his brother uh john brandon was killed leaving his headquarters in montreal's little italy i should say leaving john philippe's headquarters in little italy called ellio's uh restaurante uh that was in the middle of february and now uh one of his lieutenants is killed in a strip club we're not sure if that homicide had anything to do with the tensions that are brewing in the underworld or if it was just uh you know you bumped into me or you disrespected me or you said something to me and that erupted into a fatal stabbing but there's no question that the uh drive-by at celestine's parents house is a message uh another attempt to kill him an attempt to kill people close to him um and again it's another example of how they're just they're right in the crosshairs right now and and leonardo risotto the boss of the risotto mob the mafia don of matri al at one point had been in an alliance with the hells angels and that all fell apart in the last uh year to two years um and you have this proxy war going on between the italians and the bikers and the streakings are kind of split between you know which group is going to go with the bikers which group are going to go with the risottos and it's just you know it's chaos 24 7 um it's interesting again i i think one thing would take away from this is that the risotto mob is relying more and more on their streaking uh resources to fight this war you know for 30 40 years the risottos were uh armed to the teeth with you know ammunition with with buttons with guys that could be their muscle guys that could be their hitters and via attrition this war that's been going on on and off for 15 years they've lost a lot of personnel um they're more in kind of bunker mode right now and from what I hear they've shifted a lot of the responsibility for boots on the ground muscle uh drug dealing collections to the ethnic street gangs so it's it's definitely a shift and Jean-Philippe Celestine aka the butcher um very feared very respected uh he averted avoided an assassination attempt two years ago his house was was raided back in december by authorities uh in relation to a cold case murder probes that are going on and so there's a lot of stuff going on right now and he is at the center of it um people are gunning for him but attacking his parents that's uh that's whole other level but it it fits with with what's going on here i mean you got multiple continents you got guys trying to you know guys cutting off fingers and toes and half a million dollar murder contracts in europe and then back home in montreal uh you know you have an insurgency going after a guy's mom and dad said and killed his brother a couple weeks ago so we'll keep you updated scott bernstein og pod out