War Between Blood Family Mafia & Hells Angels Back On In Quebec City, Rizzuto Mob No Longer Co-Signing BFM
January 23, 2025 — For the second time in less than a year, the Blood Family Mafia has broken a truce with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Quebec City in their feud over street tax. Last week, on the morning of January 17, Quebec City Hells Angels MC member Alex Maltais dodged a murder attempt when he survived being shot at with machine-gun fire from a passing vehicle near a McDonald’s restaurant parking lot on Vachon Boulevard. Patched into the Hells Angels in 2017, Maltais rose through the ranks of the club as a debt collector and is now a shot caller in Eastern Quebec (Sept-Iles). According to SQ intelligence reports and court records, he was one of the HA’s main collectors for the Hells Angels traditional 10 percent tax on drug sales in Quebec City that sparked the war in 2023 when Blood Family Mafia got backing from the Rizzuto mob in Montreal, consolidated the streets gangs in Quebec City and began a shooting, bombing and kidnapping campaign targeting Hells Angels throughout the province.
But things have changed quite a bit this past month or two. The Rizzuto mob and the Hells Angels in Montreal made peace following a 14-month war of their own in late 2024, combing forces once again and creating a regulatory body known as The Union to enforce the will of Rizzuto and HA brass at the street level. Because of those developments, the Rizzutos allegedly pulled its support and disassociated itself from the BFM crew because BFM’s fugitive boss David (Ice Pick) Turmel won’t accept the orders to stand down in his hostilities towards the Hells Angels, per sources.
The road to resolution in “Ice Pick” Turmel and the Hells Angels’ issues with each other is no clearer today as it was two years ago when the shooting started. Even though, on multiple occasions, it appeared the bloodshed was about to come to an end.
First, in November of 2023, a delegation of Quebec City Hells Angels traveled to Lisbon, Portugal with a peace offering to Turmel, on the run since that summer from a narcotics and gangsterism case in Canada, however, Turmel rejected it and sent the HAs back on a plane to North America empty handed. Then, last March, Quebec City Hells Angels met with police to tell them the club’s beef with the Blood Family Mafia was done. Within weeks, the violence resumed though and moved out of Quebec City to other regions of the province. An innocent woman and her 7-year old daughter visiting the country from France were accidentally killed in a fire-bombing in Montreal in September tied to the BFM-HA unrest.
Finally, back in November 2024, the Hells Angels’ Canadian braintrust called an end to the tensions by ceding territory to the BFM crew and eliminating their 10 percent take of street rackets not officially under the HA banner in a bombshell development reported by LeJournaldeMontreal. Negotiations in the fall ’24 discussions were brokered by a group of independent wholesale drug traffickers in the Quebec City area, per the LDJ report.
Turmel, 28, never signed off on the agreement GR sources claim and has continued encouraging his men in Canada to keep up the fight against the Hells Angels. Hours before Maltais averted death last Wednesday, a Hells Angels affiliate named Antoine de Margerie-Blais — linked to 81 Nation support clubs The Full Metal MC and the Reapers MC — was murdered in a professional hit carried out in front of his young son. Authorities announced the two attacks were unconnected, but named BFM as the top suspects in the unsuccessful Maltais shooting.
The SQ and RCMP believe Turmel left town in June 2023 and fled to Europe. GR sources say he was being hidden by Rizzuto mob connections in a series of safehouses spread across Europe and North Africa. It’s unknown what Turmel’s hiding arrangements are right now in the wake of the Rizzutos peace treaty with the Hells Angels being sewn up in December. The violence started in March 2023 after Turmel discovered a GPS tracking device attached to his SUV and responded by shooting up the home of Quebec City Hells Angels prince Matt Pelletier, his former partner in the drug and pimping game. The Hells Angels have reportedly placed a half-million dollar murder contract on Turmel’s head, while at the same time, the RCMP is offering $250,000 reward money for information leading to his apprehension.
