Daniel Renaud of
La Presse has collaborated with Peter Edwards of the
Toronto Star on this latest development.
Link to French-language article:
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...s-siciliens.phpGoogle translation:Double murder in Toronto: the revenge of the Sicilians?Daniel Renaud
La PressePublished July 13, 2013 at 4:30 | Updated at 6:08
The double murder Friday morning in Vaughan could it be linked to the assassination of the patriarch of the Montreal Mafia, Nicolo Rizzuto?
Police sources have indeed told the Toronto Star that one victim, Salvatore Calautti, 40, have been on the list of potential suspects in the murder of 86-year-old godfather, shot in the kitchen November 10, 2010 under the eyes of his wife and daughter.
The gunman, who had slipped into the woods at the back of the house in the Rue Antoine-Berthelet, fired a single bullet went through a window and fatally shot the victim in the head.
According to information obtained by La Presse and the Toronto Star , an Ontario 47 years near Calautti was arrested in a department store west of Montreal in the hours that followed the murder of Nicolo Rizzuto. His arrest was the least singular, we have given sources. The man was questioned at length by police.
Between December 2009 and November 2010, the murder of Nick Rizzuto Jr., Nicolo Rizzuto and Agostino [BadWord], and removal of consigliere Paolo Renda had marked the fall of the Sicilians. Although some of these crimes were committed on the orders of local chieftains, some sources do not exclude that the green light to some of them may have come from Ontario.
Full partyCalautti was killed in the night from Thursday to yesterday when a party was in full swing in a reception room Creditstone Road, in Vaughan, a suburb of Toronto. Called for shots around 1am, police found his body and that of another person in the parking lot of the building.
According to our sources, Calautti was a man of arms who had links with several Calabrian Ontario families. He was suspected of five murders in Ontario, including that of Gaetano Panepinto, occurred in October 2000. Panepinto was a representative of the current godfather of the Montreal Mafia, Vito Rizzuto, in the Greater Toronto Area.
According to our sources, Panepinto also had strong foundations in the mafia Buffalo. At the beginning of the 2000s, Panepinto have had a dispute with the best friend for a case Calautti Territory game This friend was killed shortly after.
- With Peter Edwards, Toronto Star
