There's a bloody mafia war going on in Montreal right now

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Until police found Rocco Sollecito's corpse in his bullet-riddled luxury SUV a few hundred meters from police headquarters in Laval, just north of Montreal, he was likely the highest-ranking mafioso still standing in Canada. But the grisly discovery on May 28 was just the latest in a string of gangland slayings in the city, where the Italian mafia has struggled to fill a power vacuum caused by years of internal struggle and police busts. A once-unified network of Italian mobsters, street gangs, bikers, and corrupt city officials has decayed and crumbled in the last decade. Violence has flared as a result, and the stack of bodies is growing higher. It's a historic low point for the Montreal mafia, long considered by authorities to be the strongest organized crime group in Canada.

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On the wiretap recording, Francesco del Balso's voice is calm. "I want my fricking money today or Lorenzo said he's gonna grab you, he's gonna fricking turn you into a pretzel. And don't frick with him, bro. "Listen to me, go get 112 dimes and save yourself a beating of your life." This is how the Montreal mafia's version of a collections agency works.
At the time of the recording, Del Balso was a notorious bookmaker and high-ranking member of Montreal's infamous Rizzuto crime family. The Lorenzo on the tape was presumably Lorenzo Giordano, a close associate of Del Balso and the capo considered to be the de facto leader of the family for a time.

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