Bloodshed In Montreal: Rizzuto Family Feud?

Police in Montreal, QC Canada are theorizing that all the recent attacks against senior reputed Rizzuto crime family members may be the result of an internal conflict rather than a Mafia war as reported by Paul Cherry for The Gazette. In any event, it’s been a brutal few months for the Rizzuto clan:  last week family leader Agostino Cuntrera and his driver and body guard Liborio Sciascia were shot to death; last month reputed consigliere Paola Renda apparently was kidnapped off the streets; last December Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of imprisoned reputed boss Vito Rizzuto, was gunned down; and last August convicted drug trafficker Frederico Del Peschio, a close associate of the family, was murdered. Meanwhile, police in Montreal are theorizing that some of the fire bomb attacks primarily against Italian cafes in the north end since last September may not be part of a Mafia war but the result of “street gangs demanding a share of drug profits” as reported by CBC News.