Organized crime in Montreal and Quebec is in shock; Hitman Frédérick Silva, who has completed several contracts for major criminal organizations, placed himself under police protection on Thursday.
Posted at 2:34 p.m.
Silva, 42, who has just been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the murders of three men committed in 2018, left the penitentiary of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines in a helicopter of police, escorted by members of the Sûreté du Québec Tactical Intervention Group, on Thursday afternoon, and was placed under protection at an unknown location.
This extraction was carried out after the police obtained an order from a judge.
Chief Inspectors Benoit Dubé, of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), and David Bertrand, of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), summoned The Press and the Montreal Journal at 1:45 p.m. Thursday afternoon to announce that “a high-level individual from organized crime” had just placed himself under the protection of the police, without however revealing the name of the person in question.
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David Bertrand, head of the criminal investigations department at the SPVM
Sources, however, told The Press that it is Frédérick Silva.
Neither the SPVM officer nor the SQ officer wanted to say whether it was the individual who had taken the first steps with the police or the opposite.
It is not known where Silva was taken, but it is known that the police have certain secure places to detain high profile individuals who are about to collaborate with her.
From predator to prey
Remember that in recent weeks, two men from Silva’s entourage, Sébastien Giroux and Bernard Cherfan, were murdered, respectively in Montreal and Laval.
According to our information, Silva himself was recently informed that his life was in danger.
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Frédérick Silva (left) and Bernard Cherfan were filmed by the police during a shadowing.
“It is certain that the murders of Giroux and Cherfan weighed in the balance. He may have realized that the group that supported him, that his vein of protection was no longer there and that the predator had become prey, “illustrated a former police officer who is familiar with organized crime and who requested the anonymity.
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A former police officer familiar with organized crime who requested anonymity
Chief Inspectors Dubé and Bertrand indicated that from now on, the two police forces would work together in the investigation of several spheres of criminal activity, including murders.
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Benoit Dubé, Chief Inspector of Investigations at the Sûreté du Québec
“We don’t have a contract with him at the moment, so we can’t go any further, but the SQ and the SPVM are now setting up a task force for the months to come,” said Chief Inspectors Bertrand and Dubé.
“We’re going to use the expertise of the SQ and the SPVM in all spheres of activity and we’ll see what happens, but for now, we haven’t affected any unit per se, it’s a new work team that we are going to set up and we will follow the evolution of the situation,” added Benoit Dubé.
Expected impacts
Frédérick Silva was considered by the police to be a contract killer who carried out contracts for major criminal organizations, including the Mafia and the Hells Angels.
He was notably convicted for the murders of Sébastien Beauchamp, a former member of the Rockers, the late Hells Angels school club, and Yvon Marchand, a drug trafficker, in 2018, and for an attempted murder against the late leader. mob clan Salvatore Scoppa in 2017.
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Sébastien Beauchamp was on board this Ford Grand Cherokee SUV when it was hit by a first projectile at a service station in northeast Montreal in December 2018.
But the police believe that he and his associates may have committed other similar crimes.
Two of his alleged associates are also still accused in court for the murder of Beauchamp and for an attempted murder of a biker.
Our sources believe that his possible collaboration in these investigations could seriously shake the columns of organized crime in Montreal and Quebec.
His eventual collaboration could have an impact as great as that of Stéphane “Godasse” Gagné, who convicted Maurice Boucher of the murders of prison guards and marked the beginning of the end of the Nomads, in the early 2000s, or that of by Gérald Gallant, who confessed to 28 murders during the 2000s.
A former police officer familiar with organized crime who requested anonymity
He points out that this is the beginning of collaboration, that the process will be long and that it will probably take several months before the first results appear.
Other sources believe that this announcement could create a stir in the criminal world very quickly and that “workers” must be very nervous.
“It will change the portrait of organized crime, in our opinion,” concluded Benoit Dubé.
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