A usurer lender linked to the Irish underworld who escaped an attempted murder in June appears to be the target of a new vendetta while two business premises owned by his wife were burned in 24 hours.
Then, at about 3:20 am, a Rosemère establishment, Train 344, was hit.
If the two braziers were quickly mastered, obvious traces of a deliberate act were discovered by the investigators.
The two buildings where the restaurants were housed belong to a registered number company in the name of Isabelle Roy.
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Friend of the underworld
According to our sources, she is the spouse of John McKenzie, a usurious lender who is close to the west end gang.
The 48-year-old is known to police circles as a "friend for life" of Richard Griffin, a notorious member of the Irish underworld murdered more than 40 bullets in 2006.
McKenzie himself narrowly escaped death at the end of June when he was leaving a Laval training center.
He was caught by a sniper in the gym parking lot along Highway 440. No suspects have been identified so far on this file.
"Our work is just beginning and we still have to meet witnesses," said Lieutenant Hugo Fournier while maintaining that it was too early to make a definitive link between events.
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The SQ had already detailed McKenzie's proximity to the West end Gang in front of the Liquor, Racing and Gaming Authority (RACJ) in 2011, during auditions for O'Neil's pubs in Rosemère and Saint-Eustache.
The investigator Dominique Alain explained then that the individual used companies belonging to his relatives to acquire legal companies in payment of usurious debts.
In January 2017, Le Journal also revealed that a luxurious residence on Commissioner's Street owned by his wife had been burned.
