The brother of the boss Desjardins was killed, believes the police
The man, who seemed to have withdrawn from criminal cases, disappeared a year ago in Laval

The older brother of Raynald Desjardins, Jacques, who died a year ago, was probably murdered in a settlement of the mafia.
"The thesis currently favored by our investigators is that it is a homicide related to organized crime," said Inspector Guy Lapointe, of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), interviewed by Le Journal on this case

.Jacques Desjardins, 68, had left his home in Laval, around 8 am, on the morning of October 30, 2017, telling his family that he had to go to "an appointment".
A trap
According to our sources, the police believe that this sexagenarian having already dipped in the importation of narcotics was thus caught in a trap, and possibly by an acquaintance of which he was not suspicious.
Jacques Desjardins never gave a sign of life afterwards. His white Volkswagen Passat was found two days later, abandoned on a residential street in the Sainte-Rose neighborhood of Laval.
The officers combed through it, but the assailants left no trace of the body behind them, nor any indication of what happened to the man wearing a North Face black fleece and running shoes. gray and blue.
The investigators of the SQ's crime against the person section are obviously dealing with professionals.
Vengeance against his brother?
The relatives of Jacques Desjardins were quick to ask the police for help saying fear for his safety.
The missing man appeared to have withdrawn from criminal cases for good after being arrested in Peru in 2012 for seizing 48 kilograms of cocaine. Suspected of financing the importation of this drug into Canada, he was finally released.
That is why, among the theses considered to explain this crime, police sources believe that the officials wanted to take revenge on the mafia Raynald Desjardins by eliminating a member of his family.
Or, that Jacques Desjardins was eliminated after they tried to extract information about his brother, who is currently serving a 14-year prison sentence for getting rid of a rival.
Raynald Desjardins made enemies during the bloody power struggle that tore the Montreal mafia after the arrest of godfather Vito Rizzuto in 2004 for three murders committed in New York 23 years earlier.

Another appointment

In the fall of 2011, Raynald Desjardins, who was trying to seize control of the mafia with certain allies, was tracked by the SQ and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after surviving a murder attempt at the AK-47. At the time, one of his bodyguards was the son of the deceased, Hugo Desjardins.
The police intercepted the texting of the boss while he planned his revenge against a former partner who had betrayed him, the aspiring sponsor Salvatore Montagna.
Moreover, Montagna had also been invited to an appointment before dying. He falsely believed he was going to meet Raynald Desjardins to settle their dispute on the island of Vaudry, in Charlemagne, where he died of bullets on the morning of November 24, 2011.
A month later, Raynald Desjardins was arrested with half a dozen accomplices.
♦ Jacques Desjardins was sentenced to four years of penitentiary in 1997 for importing hashish. The RCMP also arrested him in 1992 for importing cocaine into the Port of Montreal, but was released from charges for lack of evidence.
 
A CLAN IN THE MIRE
August 11, 2005
While Raynald Desjardins is imprisoned for plotting to import 740 kg of cocaine with Hells Angels, the trafficker and trade unionist Giovanni Johnny Bertolo is shot dead in Montreal. From then on, Desjardins turns his back on the Rizzuto clan, of which he was an influential collaborator, for allowing the murder of his best friend.
The morning of September 16, 2011
Desjardins fights unscathed after he and one of his bodyguards, Jonathan Mignacca, were targets of an AK-47 gunman who fired 23 shots at their BMW branded SUVs. Boulevard Lévesque, Laval.
November 4, 2012
Desjardins brother-in-law and ex-Montreal No. 2 Joe Di Maulo is shot dead by a gunman in front of his home in Blainville, while godfather Vito Rizzuto was released from a US penitentiary after nine years of incarceration.
January 22, 2013
A friend and business partner of Desjardins, Gaétan Gosselin, is murdered by members of a street gang in the pay of the mafia, in front of his home in the Mercier neighborhood. Since 2011, a dozen relatives and associates of Desjardins have been murdered.
April 9, 2013
The former Desjardins corps guard in Montreal, Juan Ramon Fernandez, nicknamed Joe Bravo, is riddled with bullets in Sicily. Having become an informer, one of the killers testified before the Italian courts in October 2016 that "Desjardins was the one leading the war against Rizzuto".

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