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@Blackmobs @Mafia101

Different Quebec newspapers are reporting different details, e.g., whether Rizzuto was alone in the car.

I’m also reading and seeing that both the Yves Légare and Alfred Dallaire Memoria locations in Laval are supposedly where Rizzuto escaped to safety by getting off the highway and driving into the parking lot of a funeral home. Are either of you able to confirm which funeral home he drove to?

This attack came from Raynald Desjardins, Vittorio Mirarchi or the maybe the Bikers no one else would even think about doing this.

Who are the ones who stayed independent and maintained ties to Calabria?

No attack has ever come from Toronto or Hamilton I seriously doubt they have anything to do with this. The reason people are suspecting them is because people think the past attacks have been Rizzuto vs Ndrangheta and that is totally wrong. Stefano Sollecito has too many serious health issues to be trying to take out Leonardo Rizzuto and alienating half of this powerbase.

What are you even talking about with Michael Mancuso he can't even control his people in New York.

Thanks for the response AM. I understand.

Can tell by the photos and the diagrams in some of the reports that it was Yves Légare that he escaped to. He was driving west on 440 and escaped on the southbound off ramp.

i will parrot mafia 101 please god leave any mention of ny or bonannos or mancuso out of this.
noone yet knows for sure who was behind this attempt with most pointing towards desjardins or mirarchi and rightly so.
mancuso has nothing to do with this and HAS NO INFLUENCE,MAN POWER OR CREWS OPERATING IN MONTREAL!!!

the hells angels have been good to stay neutral in past wars in mtl. seems like an odd time to strike out and end a working alliance that has been in place since the early 1990's. it is not yet known however if other HA chapters have agreed to work with desjardins. not all chapters work together in quebec. the montreal chapter is the most powerful though.

I only mention the bikers because they are the only other ones who'd be strong enough to do something like this. I don't think they would because of the reasons you said. Raynald Desjardins is close to Trois-Rivières bikers but I don't think that means anything if he decided to attack the Rizzutos again.

Out of all theories, thinking that NY is behind this it’s…well…crazy.

A much better (yet still unlikely) theory would be: Sollecito taking Leonardo out as some sort of a pact with the other Italian factions. Still highly unlikely, like I said, but not as out of whack as believing that Mancuso has something to do with this.

Although I do see Scott Burnstein writing a whole article about it citing his “sources” in NY.

It was an Alfred Dallaire. But the reason some news say Yves Legaré, its because the company Yves Légaré bought and own the Alfred Dallaire memorials.

So it was an Alfrd Dallaire that is owned by Gestion Yves Légaré.

Thanks for clearing that up Blackmobs that explains the confusion that myself and reports are having. When you look up the location it shows the name Yves Légaré but the building signage says Alfred Dallaire.

LEONARDO RIZZUTO
TARGET BY GUNTS OF SHOTGUN

The youngest son of the late Montreal mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, Leonardo Rizzuto, was shot in the leg on Wednesday afternoon at the corner of highways 13 and 440 in Laval, while driving his vehicle. The case could cause an escalation or at the very least an aftershock in the organized crime world.

The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) first reported having been called to the scene of the Yves Légaré funeral home around 4:30 p.m. Spokesperson Stéphane Tremblay indicated that a person had been injured, but that 'we don't fear for our life. Various police sources confirmed to La Presse on Wednesday that the person targeted is Leonardo Rizzuto, 53. He was transported to a hospital center. A vast investigation was opened in parallel.

Bursts of gunfire were fired from a moving vehicle at Rizzuto's car on 440 West at mile 20, according to our information. Also according to our information, Rizzuto was driving and would have been alone in the car. Everything indicates that he then drove for tens of meters before coming to a stop in the parking lot of the funeral home.

Highway 440 was closed to traffic in the area to let investigators establish the scene. It was the major crimes section of the SQ that took charge of the investigation.

Rizzuto, who has his title of lawyer, has no criminal history except impaired driving cases dating from the early 1990s. He is however considered by the Montreal police as one of the leaders of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal Mafia and one of the influential members of Montreal organized crime.


Laval police and SQ patrollers were dispatched to the scene on Wednesday, a large security perimeter having been erected in front of the funeral home and on Highway 440, where the first bursts took place. Rizzuto's vehicle, a Mercedez-Benz GLE, had flat tires. At the time of La Presse, one could also see at least eight bullet holes on the front left window, indicating that the shots could initially have been aimed at Rizzuto's head.

A funeral center official met at the scene indicated that the establishment will not comment on this event for the moment. The young guardian Alexandra Geramoutsos, meanwhile, was in an apartment located in front of the funeral center when the event occurred. “I saw an ambulance and several police cars arrive suddenly. And they erected a police perimeter quickly, ”she says.

“We always play in the corner, her and me. We often walk in the neighborhood, continues Ms. Geramoutsos, speaking of the young girl she regularly babysits. Of course that worries me. If it was her or me… Now, we wonder if we will continue to do all this. She is like my little sister. »

At the time, Maryse, a resident of the neighborhood, also said that she did not hear any shots, but saw many patrol cars arriving at a whirlwind. “We thought it must be serious, we wondered if someone had fired inside the establishment. Then we understood by reading the news, ”she exclaims in her doorway.

OPERATION MAGOT-MASTIFF

Leonardo Rizzuto was arrested in November 2015 as part of Operation Magot-Mastiff in which the SQ decapitated a Mafia-biker-gang alliance that ran Montreal's organized crime, and was charged with gangsterism and possession of a handgun and drugs.

But the evidence came mainly from a conversation picked up during the investigation by microphones installed by the police in the conference room of former criminal lawyer Loris Cavaliere. The police then obtained a warrant allowing them to search his home, where they found the gun and a small amount of cocaine.

But Rizzuto challenged the legality of the wiretap, which he said violated attorney-client privilege, and won. The search warrant was therefore invalidated and Rizzuto was acquitted, as was Stefano Sollecito, also considered one of the leaders of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia.

Leonardo's older brother, Nicola Rizzuto Jr., was murdered in December 2009 in what was the genesis of an attempted coup against the family by rebel Mafia clans. His grandfather and former godfather, Nicola Rizzuto, and his uncle, Paolo Renda, were respectively murdered and abducted – without ever being found – in November and May 2010, during the same coup attempt.

Vito Rizzuto, for his part, died of natural causes in December 2013.

The attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto must be considered a major event in the criminal world in Montreal and could cause an escalation or at the very least an aftershock.

Many individuals linked to organized crime have been warned by the police that their life was in danger for a year, but these warnings are commonplace in the community.

Although police sources have reported some tensions within the mafia in recent months, others have told us more recently that the situation has been much calmer since the elimination in 2019 of the brothers Salvatore and Andrew Scoppa, who had them also took part in a power war against Sicilians in 2016, according to police.

The latest attacks targeting mafia-linked individuals came last fall when a cocaine importer, Vincenzo Armeni, was killed in October and a former lieutenant of the Rizzuto clan now close to the bikers, Francesco Del Balso, was the target of an attempted murder a month later. Both events occurred in Laval.

QUÉBEC WILL REMAIN ON THE ALERT

In the evening, Wednesday, the Minister of Public Security, François Bonnardel, reiterated through his cabinet that he had put "several measures in place to reduce armed violence on the territory of Quebec and mainly in the greater Montreal area. “, a “scourge” for which he says he actively supports the police on the ground. “We have confidence in the police forces, including that of Laval, to protect citizens. They are on the lookout and the specialized teams are on the ground, ”added the minister in reference to the attempted murder against Leonardo Rizzuto. He also promises to remain present to support local populations “as needed” in the coming days.

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the shooters must have made their way back to the scene of the crime. because, after the shooting, they took the avenue des Bois. To leave Laval sur le Lac (Laval's wealthiest district). they have to turn around and get back on Highway 440.
Except, if they took the bridge to go to Saint-Hyacinthe.

The states have nothing to do with this.

@Blackmobs

A thanks from me too for the clarification.

@Mafia101 @antimafia

Ya’ll welcome

You see the car he was driving while shot at? What a heap of shit. But he learned from the old school, no flash. Joey Merlino should learn from him.

It looks like a Mercedes GLE AMG 43. Hardly my dream car but I wouldn't say it's a heap of shit. It's still an almost hundred thousand dollar car.

Of course, that's Canadian dollars.

SQ seeks witnesses to alleged Mafia leader Leonardo Rizzuto's attempted murder
https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...eader-leonardo-rizzutos-attempted-murder

La Sûreté du Québec demande l’aide du public pour faire avancer son enquête
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ublic-pour-faire-avancer-son-enquete.php

Tentative de meurtre sur Leonardo Rizzuto: la Sûreté du Québec recherche des témoins
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...a-surete-du-quebec-recherche-des-temoins

What a close call

Tentative de meurtre à l'endroit de Leonardo Rizzuto: la police s'attend à une réplique violente
https://www.journaldequebec.com/202...a-police-sattend-a-une-replique-violente

Him driving alone in a regular car with no bulletproof glass means that he thought that the underworld was so stable that no one would make a move.

Ok, maybe not a heap of shit, but it's still pretty discreet or unassuming if you ask me. He still dresses nice, which puts the lie to the notion that wiseguys have to dress like slobs to not go to jail.

Analysis by Mafia inc. co-author André Cédilot appears in Pascal Robidas’s latest article:

Guerre ou retraite? Leonardo Rizzuto à la croisée des chemins, selon un spécialiste
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvell...zzuto-options-guerre-retraite-enquete-sq

Rough translation of the article posted above by antimafia:

WAR OR RETIREMENT?
Leonardo Rizzuto at a crossroads, according to a specialist
The son of the late Montreal mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto survived a burst of bullets fired at his car in Laval.


After miraculously surviving an attempted murder by firearm on Wednesday, Leonardo Rizzuto, considered by the police as one of the leaders of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia, may have to choose between going to war against those who ordered his murder or lowering his flag by formalizing his retirement.

This is the opinion of the renowned Italian mafia specialist André Cédilot, who worked for 35 years at La Presse and signed two books on the Rizzuto clan.

One thing is certain, according to this expert, Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the late Montreal mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, will not flee Canada as would other alleged mafias whose heads are put at a price.

Leonardo was born in Montreal and will never leave the city. When his father, Vito, was imprisoned in the United States, several police officers believed that he would never return to Quebec and choose Venezuela or Italy at the end of his sentence in Colorado. But her daughter Maria had told my police sources: her family was from Montreal and she would never leave the city, recalls André Cédilot.

The alleged 53-year-old mafia leader escaped death on Wednesday at about 4:40 p.m., while driving his Mercedes-Benz at the junction of Highways 440 and 13, in Laval.

The shooter opened fire about ten times, but only injured him in the leg.

Leonardo Rizzuto was transported to the Cité-de-la-Santé de Laval, but he left the hospital, escorted by his close guard, in the early evening, according to our information.

It was not a message, we wanted to get rid of it, says the mafia specialist by looking at Radio-Canada's photos, thus corroborating the opinion of our police sources.

As Leonardo is the last living son of Vito Rizzuto, André Cédilot explains that it was the former lawyer Loris Cavaliere who took him under his wing to propel him to the consultation table created between criminal organizations about ten years ago.

Leonardo has neither the charisma nor the experience or contacts his father had when he ruled organized crime in Montreal. It could have been propelled only because of its name. But since his father's friends were all murdered, he no longer has control over the Italian mafia clans in Montreal and other criminal organizations, adds Mr. Cédilot.

The withdrawal of Stefano Sollecito

After the assassination of Rocco Sollecito on May 27, 2016, a few meters from the Laval police headquarters, his son Stefano took over to take care of the affairs of the Rizzuto clan, the expert reports.

I am convinced that Leonardo was imposed on Stefano, who already had business relations with bikers and other criminal organizations, explains André Cédilot.

However, according to our police sources, Stefano Sollecito, now 54, is no longer considered an influential and active member of organized crime because of serious health problems.

According to our information, his condition has deteriorated in recent months.

Stefano was the last one who could prevent us from trying to get rid of Leonardo, who does not have the respect of the mafia Italian families of Montreal. There are about ten of them. Without a protector, he has simply become an accessory in the organized crime ecosystem, adds the former investigative journalist.

André Cédilot does not believe that Leonardo Rizzuto can have the allies and resources necessary to go to war against those who ordered his murder.

Several organized crime actors have the potential to be behind this attack. It can be bikers, like the Calabrian mafia or old enemies of the Rizzuto family, says the specialist.

The confession of the hitman Frédérick Silva, who agreed to collaborate with the Sûreté du Québec, could make several members of organized crime who are still active nervous. Leonardo's involvement in crimes confessed by Silva could encourage people to take action, believes André Cédilot.

Over the past year, police officers specialized in the fight against organized crime have warned several people that their heads were put at a price.

According to our information, the name of Leonardo Rizzuto was part of the number.

No one has ever said you have to dress like a slob to not go to jail guy just got shot and you're more interested in what kind of heap of shit he's driving and what he wears

Yes, it's a shame he got shot. Excuse me.

A few days ago i mentioned Stefano health issues.

about 10 families