A friend would have invited him to go smoke to attract him outside the hotel, where a shooter was waiting patiently
The dreaded mafioso Salvatore Scoppa may have been betrayed by a member of his close guard, who invited him to smoke outside just before being the target of a shooter last month in Laval.
The thesis that the 49-year-old caïd was the victim of such a ruse, in the best tradition of settling scores of the Italian mafia, would be seriously considered by the police, according to sources from our Office of Investigation and of the Journal .
On the evening of May 4th, Sal Scoppa participated in a family party for the first communion of one of her children, at the Sheraton Hotel in Laval. Other receptions gathering a few hundred people were held simultaneously.
t was therefore necessary to bring out this dangerous mafia to facilitate the task of the armed killer.
At 10 pm sharp, Scoppa appeared in the hotel's porch to go smoke a cigarette with an employee he also considered a friend, according to our information.
At the same time, the shooter approached and fired at his target, caught by surprise, reaching it a first time, while ignoring "the friend" at his side.
While the latter remained at the entrance as if he were watching, the shooter entered the hotel chasing Scoppa to finish him off.
The murderer emptied two magazines, hitting the victim with several projectiles on the thorax and head before fleeing in a black Ford Explorer driven by an accomplice.
According to our sources, the "friend" in question gave contradictory versions to the police when they questioned him as an eyewitness to the murder.
Clan Rizzuto
In addition, our sources claim that this witness has already worked in the Rizzuto clan, which was at loggerheads with Scoppa.
In the summer of 2015, Stefano Sollecito, then acting head of the Montreal Mafia, was registered without his knowledge by the police saying that it was necessary to "put Salvatore Scoppa away from the street" because he he trusted him more.
Another organized crime leader told Sollecito that Scoppa deserved "a bullet in the chest."
On May 27, 2016, Rocco Sollecito, father of Stefano Sollecito and faithful ally of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, was shot dead.
The killer, who knew the whereabouts of the victim, was waiting for her in a bus shelter in front of which she had to make a mandatory stop at the wheel of her SUV.
As Le Journal reported a month ago, Scoppa was considered by the police as the main suspect of this murder, as well as those of Lorenzo Giordano and Vincenzo Spagnolo, two other relatives of the Rizzuto clan killed the same year.
As revealed by Le Journal on May 15, the murder was unfortunate for the Hells Angels as the police took the opportunity to increase the pressure on all organized crime.
Laval police chief Pierre Brochet said the crime was "unacceptable" and that he was "lucky not to lose innocents".
