Mob muscle: ‘Wiseguys use violence as a means to an end … and that goal is always to make money’ weekendreads
When Quebec’s first Pizza Hut franchise was planned for Montreal’s Little Italy it suffered a bedeviling launch. The “opening soon” sign was torched to the ground. That warning was ignored and, when construction started, the place was firebombed; when plans continued, it was dynamited in the night.
Sometimes violence is spontaneous, stemming from anger or feeling insulted or a thirst for revenge, but even then there is a level of calculation. Not responding to an insult can devalue a mobster’s share price on the street. Striking hard can raise it. “The baby was there for five hours, they didn’t even know,” Guido said. “F—, that guy deserved it, but the baby? Why would he do it?” he said of bringing a child to such a meeting.
Louise Russo was buying food for her daughter when she was hit and paralyzed by a stray bullet in 2004 when gangsters sprayed a crowded Toronto restaurant with bullets in a bungled mob hit. In 1995, in Montreal, 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers was killed when struck by shrapnel from a car bomb during a biker war.
The Mafia is not always subtle — firebombing a politician’s car is more common in Italy’s south than a simple threatening phone call. The range of violence against politicians runs the spectrum from a threat through sending an animal’s head in a box to murder, arson and assault. The study, led by Gianmarco Daniele, showed the Mafia’s political violence increases considerably immediately after elections, when newly elected officials begin negotiations over priorities during their term in office.
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