Inside Montreal's "Ice Cream Parlor" Mafia Headquarters | S1E4 | Underworld Histories

Montreal is Canada's second biggest city - and its most colorful. Its geographical location, historical connection with France and language also made it the ideal criminal intermediary between North America and Europe. The Mafia and biker gangs took advantage of the city's underworld and since the 90s forged a business relationship unlike anywhere else in the world. Traditionally, the Mafia imports the drugs and the various biker gangs worked the streets. However, the Hell's Angels, under the leadership of Maurice "Mom" Boucher, decide they want it all. The war between the Hell's Angels and all the other biker gangs leaves the city of Montreal strewn with blown up cars, fire bombed buildings and the streets littered the remains of dead bikers. But everything changes when the bikers accidentally kill an 11-year-old boy, Daniel Desrochers. This galvanizes public opinion and forces the Government of Quebec into action. The largest police operation in the history of Canada bags 160 bikers and decapitates the leadership of the Hell's Angels. Today, the Mafia and the Hell's Angels still control the Montreal underworld, having learned a valuable public relations tool -- keep the family disputes within the family. 📺 SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE ▶️    / @lifethroughtimetv   Throughout the bustling cities of Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Miami, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Tijuana, Brooklyn, Tampa and Montreal, a multitude of crime syndicates and gangs make up a diverse and brutal underworld. Each episode of this revealing docu-series examines one great city from the underbelly up and tells the story of how its geography, history and culture have made it fertile ground for the organized crime groups that call it home. #WarnerBros #FullEpisode #FreeTV