Red member victim of attempted murder

Polynice, 33, was shot in the company of others on Saint-Dominique Street near René-Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal's Chinatown. Called on the scene, the paramedics of Urgences-Santé transported Polynice to the hospital where they feared for his life before he had surgery and that it was announced that he would survive his injuries.

Another man, who was probably accompanying Polynice, was also slightly injured in one leg. He refused to cooperate with the police.

According to the police, the gunshots were reported to have been fired following a conflict. A suspicious vehicle, a Porsche brand SUV, probably damaged in the front, was seen on the scene and the police are looking for it.

With Unit 44

Polynice, aka bin Laden, is known to police circles. Red allegiance, he was considered, for a time at least, as a soldier of Unit 44 whose five members were sentenced for the murders in January 2013 of Gaétan Gosselin and Vincenzo Scuderi, men of trust respectively of Caid Raynald Desjardins and the late chieftain of the mafia Giuseppe De Vito.

In the proceedings against gang leader Arsene Mompoint, an SPVM investigator last year reported that Polynice was managing a drug smuggling ring in downtown Montreal and that he had obtained supplies from Mompoint and another red, Jerry Jacques Raymond aka Jedi.

In January 2014, Polynice was arrested in the company of several individuals, including Jean-Luc Sanon, for a robbery in an Italian café but was later acquitted.

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