66-year-old florist targeted Organized crime victim shot three bullets on chest Saturday
A man was shot three times on Saturday morning in southwestern Montreal is a 66-year-old florist known for his criminal record and links to organized crime.
Antonio Iannacci was still hospitalized in a serious condition yesterday, three days after having the thorax pierced with three bullets in an alley near the intersection of Monk Boulevard and Springland Street, in the Ville-Émard district, Le Newspaper .
The major crime investigators of the SPVM are still trying to identify the suspect shooter and determine the motive of the attempted murder at the expense of the sexagenarian who was not content to grow roses peacefully.
"You do not know who you're dealing with"
"Tony" Iannacci (whose criminal record includes convictions of drugs, theft and fraud) is the owner of the Elsa florist trade, located on Monk Boulevard, near which he was shot Saturday.
Antonio Iannacci during a visit to the Montreal courthouse in 2011. PHOTO ARCHIVE Antonio Iannacci during a visit to the Montreal courthouse in 2011.
In 2007, to avoid losing this business in a bankruptcy, he asked a friend to serve him as a nominee. The latter accepted, but two years later, Iannacci returned to see him to resume his flower shop.
The victim reported in court that Iannacci went to her home with henchmen, including one named "Paulo" who claimed $ 10,000 on the spot.
"You do not know who you're dealing with," Iannacci added. His "friend" refused and was hit in the head.
Mafia and street gang
The SPVM Organized Crime Division determined that "Paulo" was Lamartine Severus Paul, an influential member of the Reds and a cousin of street gang leader Ducarme Joseph.
A search of the offices of a mafia-related contractor had allowed investigators to seize documents showing that Paul was working "contract" in debt collection and extortion.
Guilty of criminal harassment, Iannacci escaped with two years in prison.
His accomplice Paul was also sentenced, but in August 2012, a gunman murdered him at his home in Laval. Duc Ducharme Joseph suffered the same fate two years later in 2014, in the Saint-Michel district.
According to court documents, "Kenny" Joseph was hunted by the mafia. The late godfather Vito Rizzuto, who died in 2013, would have liked to have him "alive to make him suffer" because he suspected him of killing his son Nick Rizzuto Jr in 2009.
