Montreal Mob War: 20 Dead So Far
Marc Parent, Montreal chief of police.
From The Globe and Mail: Montreal is in the middle of a bloody gang war and city police chief Marc Parent is desperately trying to hold on to federal funding for what he describes as a vital tool for fighting organized crime.
While the Charbonneau inquiry has grabbed all the attention by exposing corruption at city hall, nearly two dozen Montreal-area gangsters have been shot, and 20 of them have died, in the past 13 months. Mob hits accounted for at least 18 of Montreal’s 35 homicides in 2012. Three low-level players have fallen in the past week alone, and two of them have died.
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Friday, February 1, 2013Now Two Shot in Montreal; Both Rizzuto Renegades
Game back on: It seems Vito is not finished yet.
Earlier today we reported about the shooting death of Vincenzo Scuderi, a man with known ties to the Montreal mob. Since then, another mobster has been shot repeatedly, though it seems he will survive the attempt -- and authorities are revealing that this indeed looks like the continuation of the mob war that had been blazing up Montreal since Vito Rizzuto returned home from prison to take care of business. The article below notes: "They chose to side against the Rizzuto organization while its alleged leader, Vito Rizzuto, was imprisoned in the U.S."
From Montrealgazette.com: The Sûreté du Québec has taken over a probe into a Friday-morning shooting along a Laval restaurant strip just east of Highway 15.
A man was hit by gunfire in the parking lot between two restaurants, about 10:10 a.m.
It appears the man managed to make his way inside to one of them — the Youlios Restaurant at 2033 St. Martin Blvd. W., between Highway 15 and Le Corbusier Blvd. — looking for help.
Joseph Di Maulo, an influential Mafioso, was one of the
key murders in Rizzuto's war against a renegade faction.
Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots.
Officers found casings on the ground.
The SQ has now been handed the case, Laval Sgt. Fred Jean said shortly after noon, in line with a municipal policy that transfers cases involving organized crime to the provincial force.
Jean said the victim received multiple shots to the torso. He was transported to hospital and was conscious and speaking at that time. No further update on the victim’s medical condition was immediately available.
A police source confirmed to The Gazette the man who was shot is Tonino Callocchia, a 51-year-old man with known ties to the Mafia in the past. The source said what Callocchia shares in common with some of the other recent victims in mob-related shootings — in what appears to be a complicated and multi-faceted conflict among different groups tied to the Mafia in Montreal — is that they chose to side against the Rizzuto organization while its alleged leader, Vito Rizzuto, was imprisoned in the U.S. The source said the same could be said for Vincenzo Scuderi, a man who was killed in St. Léonard on Thursday evening. While Scuderi does not have a criminal record in Quebec, he was believed to have operated as a loan shark in Montreal. The source said the Scuderi slaying appears to have been carried out by a professional hit man.
