Throughout his journalistic investigations, particularly on the Montreal mafia, Félix Séguin maintained a special relationship with the godfather at the time, Andrew Scoppa.
“We had a professional relationship from source to journalist which interfered very far in our respective lives,” he confided to Jean-Philippe Dion, Sunday, at The true nature.
“When my youngest was born, my phone rang a few hours after giving birth and I heard: Hello It’s Me. A few hours later, he was waiting for me downstairs with a bag of very nice pajamas and gave me these…” he said.
“It was at that moment that I realized that this professional relationship for me was becoming too personal for him,” he continued, adding that in addition to the police following him, Scoppa was being followed at this time by his enemies who wanted his skin.
“The police, when they arrested Scoppa, brought us into the office, and told us: ‘you people are crazy. You could have been killed five times,’” revealed the journalist who acknowledges that his job can be dangerous at times.
A lonely and sensitive child
Félix Séguin, who started in the profession as a news reader in Outaouais, before being assigned to news items, confided on Sunday that he had become a solitary and “extremely sensitive” child after the divorce of his parents.
“My father decided to leave, at one point, one business of earthworms which would be used for the feed. […] He went bankrupt and, as a result, caused my mother to go bankrupt because he had mortgaged the house,” he said.
“I never asked if this was what caused my parents’ divorce,” he said afterwards, adding that he did not remain close to his father when the latter left the family nest.
Raised in Témiscamingue, the journalist, who was passionate about criminology as a teenager, also remembered Christmases hoping that his father would come and pick him up.
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