Mafioso declared dead by the court The consigliere of the Rizzuto clan has never been found by the police since its kidnapping in 2010
The death of the former consigliere of the Montreal mafia, who disappeared since his kidnapping in 2010, was finally confirmed by the courts even though the police never found his body. After a first request rejected in 2013, the Superior Court granted the second request of mafioso wife Paolo Renda, Maria Rizzuto, in a judgment passed unnoticed last winter. Judge Brian Riordan stated that Renda - brother-in-law of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto - "died in Montreal on May 20, 2010", the day of his abduction, in this succinct decision that Le Journal was able to consult.
False police officers On May 20, 2010, three months after leaving the penitentiary, the 70-year-old man went to play golf before heading to the Loreto Funeral Complex, owned by his family. On the spot, he called his wife around 1 pm, to inform him that he was buying steaks before going home. A few hours later, 500 meters from the family residence, his son-in-law found the car of the disappeared on Gouin Boulevard: the doors unlocked, the windows down, the key in the contact and the meat still on the bench. Construction workers said they saw the victim leave with two tall men in a black car with flashing lights, suggesting that the kidnappers had pretended to be plainclothes policemen. Clan decimated Five months before Renda's disappearance, his nephew Nick Rizzuto Junior had been murdered. Five months after the kidnapping, the "patriarch" of the clan, Nicolo Rizzuto, was shot in his house. At that time, godfather Vito Rizzuto was incarcerated in the United States for plotting three murders. Paolo Renda never gave any sign of life or financial transaction. No ransom was claimed by his captors. He did not have life insurance either. If his family's second judicial request seemed only a formality, it is because Canadian courts consent to make a declaratory judgment of death when at least seven years have elapsed since the disappearance of a person .
The Journal has already reported that the boss Giuseppe Ponytail De Vito was suspected by the police to have been involved in this case which has never been elucidated. In 2013, De Vito died in cyanide poisoning at Donnacona Penitentiary.
