Éric Thibault's above-mentioned article, previously a pay-to-read article, is now available to read for free, in its entirety, online. The link is still the same:

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/03/26/attaque-armee-redoutee

Google translation (I've made only very minor edits):

Armed attack feared
Raynald Desjardins the alleged kingpin transferred from prison for security reasons
DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013, 10:26 P.M. | UPDATED: TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013, 11:30 P.M.

Correctional services in Quebec are worried that their guardians are the target of an armed attack by transporting the alleged boss Raynald Desjardins charged with murder.

The Journal has learned that Desjardins, 59, was transferred from the prison of Rivière-des-Prairies, where he was imprisoned for 15 months, to the Montreal (Bordeaux), there are ten days.

This transfer allows it to be 100 metres from the centre court Gouin, where is its exceptionally survey released since March 18, rather than the Joliette courthouse.

According to our sources, this decision was motivated by the fear that the patrol wagon on which Desjardins would have made the round trip between the jail and the courthouse, "getting shot" or be ambushed.

Prison authorities apprehend more armed attack from enemies Desjardins, which is the centre of a power struggle that rages in the Montreal mafia four years. However, they do not preclude the possibility of an escape by force, with the help of allies in freedom.

The Bordeaux jail Desjardins may be escorted to the judicial centre Gouin in a tunnel that connects the two institutions, free from any external threat.

His clan attacked

The former ally of godfather Vito Rizzuto is charged with four alleged accomplices, premeditated murder of Salvatore Montagna aspiring godfather, shot dead on November 24, 2011 on the island Vaudry, Charlemagne.

Desjardins asked the Superior Court to be released on bail pending his trial, which is expected to take place in Joliette, but not before 2014.

The evidence presented during his investigation of release — to be continued tomorrow before Judge Marc David and ending April 2 — is struck by a publication ban.

Having pulled himself unscathed a shootout September 16, 2011 in Laval, Raynald Desjardins lost his friend and business partner Gaétan Gosselin, murdered in the Mercier January 22.

In addition, his brother, the former number two Joe Di Maulo mafia, was shot dead outside his home in Blainville November 4, 2012, a month after Vito Rizzuto, who was imprisoned for six years in the United States for his role in three murders dating back to 1981, returned to the country.

Marc Labelle, lawyer Desjardins chose not to comment on our information, as well as the Ministry of Public Security.
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• Raynald Desjardins has also been called to testify before the commission Charbonneau, at a date yet to be determined. He has been associated with the company decontamination Carboneutre, along with mobster Domenico Arcuri (who disappeared last summer after shops had been targeted by Molotov cocktails in Montreal) and the former leader of the FTQ- Construction Jocelyn Dupuis.
• In 2009, Desjardins has finished serving 15 years in prison for conspiracy to import 740 kilograms of cocaine and involving the Mafia and the Hells Angels. The drug had been abandoned off Nova Scotia in 1993.