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Tonino Callocchia, member of Italian Mafia, gunned down in Rivière-des-Prairies

PAUL CHERRY, MONTREAL GAZETTE
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Published on: December 1, 2014Last Updated: December 1, 2014 5:05 PM EST
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Montreal police secure the area around the Bistro XO Plus in Montreal on Monday December 1, 2014.

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After months of relative peace within Montreal’s Mafia circles, one of its members was fatally shot in a restaurant in Rivière-des-Prairies Monday afternoon.

Police sources have confirmed that the city’s latest homicide was Tonino Callocchia, 53, a man who survived an attempt on his life in February 2013 and has been described in past parole decisions as “an active member of the Italian Mafia.”

Callocchia was pronounced dead at the scene of the Monday afternoon shooting at Bistro XO Plus on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. E. near the corner of LJ-Forget Ave.

Callocchia spent most of the 1990s behind bars serving a 21-year aggregate sentence for a series of drug-related offences and money laundering. Last month, a judge at the Montreal courthouse fixed a date in September 2015 for a hearing in a case where Callocchia was charged with extortion.