http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec...trois-jours.phpThe remains of mobster Joe Di Maulo murdered outside his home last week, today is exposed from 14h in a funerary complex in eastern Montreal.
In the utmost discretion, relatives Di Maulo come to pay their last respects.
Di Maulo, 70, an influential member of the criminal Italian was hit by at least two bullets in the head outside his home in Blainville, Sunday, November 4.
Many experts believe that it may have paid with his life for his lack of loyalty to the Sicilian Rizzuto family in recent years. Mediator rather than a leader, he was reproached for not having chosen his camp have preferred navigate between factions, as it always has.
Giuseppe Di Maulo comes from the region of Molise, in southern Italy. His wife is the sister of Raynald Desjardins, very influential in the world of Italian organized crime. One of his daughters is married to the son of the late Frank Cotroni, former leader of the Calabrian clan that had dislodged Rizzuto to take control of Montreal.
Funeral of Mafia members are often organized by the Loreto funeral home in St. Léonard owned by the Rizzuto family. But entourage Di Maulo instead opted for the complex of Magnus Poirier 6825, rue Sherbrooke Est.
Fully enclosed underground garage to enter the lounge away from reporters, but also the police, who discreetly monitor the premises.
Special measures have been implemented in this funerary complex can accommodate seven funerals. The latter is held today Monday around noon, after which the whole complex was reserved Di Maulo until the funeral Wednesday at 11 am at Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, St. Leonardo.
Is at the request of the family, as a security measure or a coincidence?
"It's like this," said an employee of simply complex, smile.
And from 14h succeed luxury cars carrying members of the entourage of Joe Di Maulo. Some seem irritated by the presence of the media. Far we have not seen any figure known criminal backgrounds or artistic - Joe Di Maulo has long been a cabaret owner and maintained friendships with some celebrities of his time.
Many wreaths are delivered. Among others, one marked "Cotroni family" and another, "Anthony Di Maulo" (his nephew).
A man who says he very well known Joe Di Maulo in the past when he was a boxer, described as a friend of the stars, "a cyclist and golfer unparalleled," a "man in the middle of the hand." He refuses to talk about his commitment offense, saying that he was "in competition with others."
He says he heard, at the funeral, Joe Di Vito Rizzuto Maulo had met the day before the murder.
