For his article in today's paper, Daniel Renaud of
La Presse interviewed Fabio Bottino of the Ros (Special Operations elite unit that deals with organized crime) in Palermo about Fernandez.
Link:http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...a-joe-bravo.phpGoogle translation:A friendship that has cost "Joe Bravo" Daniel Renaud
La PressePublished May 14, 2013 at 9:11 | Updated at 9:11
His friendship with the guy Raynald Desjardins could have been costly to Juan Ramon Fernandez, alias Joe Bravo, former henchman Vito Rizzuto, whose bullet-riddled body was found charred and last week in Sicily.
In an interview with
La Presse , the commander of a special squad of riflemen, which men have arrested 21 people linked to Cosa Nostra last week, said Fernandez spoke extensively of Raynald Desjardins in Montreal with individuals in conversations Recent collected during the investigation.
"We have heard the name of Desjardins several times. When he spoke, Joe Bravo was speaking well and compares called [Sponsor], "said Lieutenant Colonel Fabio Bottino, the ROS special unit in Palermo, specializing in the fight against organized crime.
In yesterday's issue, the Italian newspaper
La Repubblica reported the words of a repentant witness, Giuseppe Carbone, who would have told the local police that the two brothers Scaduto, accused of killing Fernandez, had acted on the orders Vito Rizzuto and they would have murdered because he had an enemy as compared Rizzuto.
Quebec police believe Raynald Desjardins and other clan leaders have tried to take the head of the mafia after the fall of the Rizzuto in 2010 - that would not have accepted the Sicilians, back in force since Vito Rizzuto's release in October. The brother-Desjardins, the influential mafioso Joe Di Maulo, and his friend and right arm Gaétan Gosselin have been murdered in recent months.
An Order of Canada
The rifle does not exclude that the power struggle in Montreal to be transported to Sicily, where Fernandez was established after being deported from Canada in April 2012. But they refuse, for the moment, to identify a sponsor.
"On listening, Fernandez said that Desjardins was his friend, but he did not choose sides. It was probably a mistake. Assume that someone on the other side was not happy and decided to eliminate him. "
"We are confident that the order to kill came from Canada because Fernandez was welcomed here. We believe that the command comes from a person of very high level of the mafia in Canada, "said Lt. Col. Bottino.
According to our sources, Fernandez has already owned a cafe in the St. Michel district and have been linked to cell Clan Cotroni during the 80s. It would then become the bodyguard of Raynald Desjardins, who allegedly introduced to Vito Rizzuto. In prison, Fernandez, a giant broken karate, protected Mafia members. During the 90s, he was arrested with 4 kg of cocaine found in a Jaguar paid by Desjardins. During the 2000s, he became close to Vito Rizzuto and settled in Toronto. "For being caught this way and having spent many years in prison, he was rather a man hand a man of honor," expressed a source of community, about conversations captured by carabinieri, in which Fernandez said a man of honor of the Mafia.
No extradition for RizzutoIn addition, Lieutenant Colonel Bottino yesterday confirmed to
La Presse what many already skeptical: the Italian authorities require the extradition of Vito Rizzuto in connection with the investigation into the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars Canadian mafia in the construction of Messina Bridge, linking Sicily to mainland Italy.
"There is no evidence to justify such a procedure. It might have problems, but not with the Messina Bridge, "said Rifleman leader.
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Photo of Fernandez and one of his killers, Giuseppe Carbone:
http://images.lpcdn.ca/924x615/201305/14/687725-durant-leur-enquete-carabiniers-file.jpg
