Torture, drugs and kidnapping: How a turf war in Quebecs organized crime world came to blows [Video]

The “peak” of a bloody dispute that was months in the making and rife with brutality led to sweeping arrests in Quebec over the weekend, according to an organized crime expert.

Criminologist and former Bloc Québécois MP Maria Mourani said the police crackdown resulted from a conflict between a street gang known as the Blood Family Mafia and the Hells Angels that came to blows.

The Blood Family Mafia (BFM) allegedly owed a 10 per cent cut of drug sales to the notorious biker gang and had grown tired of paying, according to Mourani.

“They never liked working for the Hells Angels,” Mourani said in an interview with Global News.

Quebec provincial police led raids over the weekend, with a total of 21 people arrested in a large-scale operation targeting organized crime. Investigators described a war over drug-selling territory in the Quebec City area, the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region, the Lower St-Lawrence and the North Shore.