Here is more detailed French article regarding the hit on Gaetan Gosselin. A translation is below with a link to the original story...
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The murder of a close associate of Raynald Desjardins and committed Tuesday night in the Mercier of Montreal has all the appearance of another attack against the powerful boss detained for the murder of an aspiring mobster.
And, a rare thing in this kind of well-planned murder, suspects were arrested a few hours after the crime.
At 18:15, Gaetan Gosselin, 69, was returning from the grocery store and was practically in front of him, Jean-Tavernier, near rue Pierre Gaulin. One or gunmen then arose and fired several gun shots, hitting the upper body and head. Nurse a neighbor and his wife tried to revive him, to no avail.
The man was transported to the Santa Cabrini Hospital, where he was pronounced his death later.
A few hours later, the Montreal police went on the street Brunet in Montreal-Nord, where they arrested two men after erecting a large security perimeter. Men will be interviewed to determine if they played a role in the assassination.
Gaetan Gosselin was little known. He had no criminal record. However, it has already attended a sister Raynald Desjardins.
Gosselin lived in a duplex located near the site of the tragedy, which belongs to the daughter of Raynald Desjardins, Vanessa. And was previously owned by Raynald Desjardins itself.
Gaetan Gosselin was little known and had no criminal record.
His name, however, was mentioned last fall Charbonneau commission. He was named among the business relationships Domenico Arcuri, a former close to Vito Rizzuto, who is now at loggerheads with the family since the beginning of the bloody power struggle that animates the criminal Italian since the arrest and incarceration of the sponsor in the United States.
At the Commission, the profile Arcuri was filed, among others, as president of decontamination carbon neutral company in which Raynald Desjardins was involved.
Raynald Desjardins at its exit from the palace ... (Photo: François Roy, archives Press) - image 2.0
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Raynald Desjardins at its output Joliette courthouse last December.
Photo: François Roy, Press archives
Gosselin was a shareholder of carbon neutral, as President of the Family Trust Buzio - the main shareholder of a numbered company (9183-5371 Québec), itself the first shareholder of the International Society for carbon neutral.
Originally from outside Montreal, Gosselin, who was a heavy equipment operator, arrived in the city in the early 1970s. He began to attend the sister Raynald Desjardins, and the latter has gradually involved in criminal activities.
By the mid 1980s, the name Gosselin already appeared alongside that of the boss in organization of the police. It was then considered the letter from Desjardins. Subsequently, Gosselin was involved in the collection and money lending, including casino, has given us a trustworthy source. Over the past 30 years, he was the right-hand man and trusted Raynald Desjardins, and occupied much of the family of the latter. According to our information, he also occupied a part of his master's affairs since the arrest of the latter, in December 2011, for the murder of Salvatore Montagna aspiring sponsor.
Cleaning rule
This murder is obviously a direct attack against the organization of Raynald Desjardins - especially since it was committed in the heart of the family feud. According to our sources, it also sends a clear message announcing a cleaning rule and a ruthless vengeance, in a context where individuals have recently been advised by the police or by their lawyer that their lives were in danger.
Members of the organization Desjardins and that of its allies, Giuseppe De Vito, aka Ponytail, would essentially be affected by this wave of attacks. She reportedly began dramatically at the beginning of November, when another brother Raynald Desjardins, Joe Di Maulo was killed in Blainville. It accelerated thereafter with a series of murders and attempted murder in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville and a coffee Rivière-des-Prairies.
According to our sources, a resumption of control by Sicilian mafia, decimated after a failed putsch in 2009-2010, is behind this series of murders and attempted murders. Recall that the godfather of the Montreal Mafia, Vito Rizzuto, who was released from prison last October, is currently in the Dominican Republic.
- With Emilie Bilodeau
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