Also the lapresse and the journal de montreal have two conclusion about the hit.
Lapresse:
According to our information, Ms. Iacono would have been the victim of a mistake about the person and it was her spouse who would have been targeted that day. According to our sources, the attack that resulted in the death of Ms. Iacono was a response to the attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto, youngest son of the late mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, on March 15 in Laval. .
Journal de montreal:
Everything suggests that the murder of Claudia Iacono was not a mistake on the person and that the businesswoman was indeed the target of this attack.
So the two news say two different things. She was the target and she was not the target…. What do ya’ll think ?
After having done a fair bit of genealogical research, what I am 100% certain about is that the murder victim's parents have ancestry from the hometown in Sicily from where the Rizzutos and the Rizzutos' relatives descend.
What I am 99.99% certain about is that the murder victim is the niece of Nicolò Miloto, alias "Mr. Sidewalk," or «M. Trottoir», who of course became famous for his testimony during the Charbonneau Commission inquiry.
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) has stated that the murder victim was targeted. There is now a second suspect charged in this murder: the man from Ontario who is believed to have planned it.
If the murder victim's husband was in fact the real target, whoever gave the order in Quebec probably would have gone to great pains to stress that there must be no mistake when identifying and locating this target because of who the target's wife is -- that is, the target is the husband, and the wife can't be harmed in any way because of her ancestry.
Despite the growing number of cases in Ontario and Quebec of mistaken identity in organized-crime shootings this year and in the past -- especially 1. the shooting this past February in which suspected MS-13 members in Ontario allegedly botched a drive-by in that province, and 2. the incident this past Feburary in which one of those suspected members allegedly botched a drive-by in Laval by shooting an older man instead of alleged target Francesco Del Balso -- there is still reason to believe that the murder victim could have indeed been targeted.
Again, playing devil's advocate, I think that if sources in Quebec with inside knowledge of the murder are talking to Quebec-based journalists but not the police, the sources probably have intel that is likely as good as what the SPVM has.
Coincidentally, some of the online condolences posted under the obituary for the recently deceased Domenico Manno include those from Ninetta Randisi and daughter Francesca Marsala of the Rizzutos’ hometown in Sicily — these two women posted online condolences when Claudia Iacono’s uncle Antonino died in July of last year.
