“Even though I was not present on the spot on that March morning, despite the time that had passed, I also often wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of gunfire echoing loudly in my dreams”.
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These words were written by the sister of Lorenzo Giordano, an influential member of the Montreal mafia killed on March 1, 2016 by Dominico Scarfo.
The latter was recently convicted by a jury of the murders of Giordano and another mafia lieutenant, Rocco Sollecito, also shot dead in 2016.
A first part of the sentencing submissions took place Thursday morning, at the Montreal courthouse, and only a letter from Giordano’s sister, written in French, was filed by the prosecution and read by the prosecutor Mand Marie-Christine Godbout.
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Lorenzo Giordano during his incarceration following Operation Coliseum.
Giordano was murdered by several projectiles from a firearm when the car in which he was a passenger had just stopped in the parking lot of a fitness room in Laval.
According to the prosecution theory, he was killed in a dispute between the Sicilian faction of the Montreal Mafia and the Calabrian clan of the Scoppa brothers.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE SÛRETÉ DU QUÉBEC
Dominico Scarfo was recently found guilty by a jury of the murders of Giordano and another mafia lieutenant, Rocco Sollecito, who was also shot in 2016.
A former mafia hitman turned civilian undercover agent for the Sûreté du Québec compromised Scarfo by recording him without his knowledge in the summer of 2019.
death of pain
Members of the Sollecito family declined to testify, but Giordano’s sister, whose name is covered by a publication ban, acted as her family’s spokesperson.
“I don’t know the murderer and I don’t want to know him. I am afraid of him and I fear for the safety of my family. To rethink his monstrous gesture, he scares us. Moreover, when I saw his photo in the newspaper, the look in his icy eyes convinced me that he could still kill, because for him human life obviously had no value,” said writes the woman, denouncing a “traitorous” gesture committed against “a defenseless person”.
“My poor dad let himself die, overwhelmed by the pain of the great loss of his son. My mom no longer leaves her home and still lives in disarray, without understanding how so much hatred and cruelty can exist in a human being to end up killing another human being without any remorse, ”added the sister of the deceased. mafioso.
Lorenzo Giordano had just left the penitentiary when he was killed in 2016. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being arrested in the historic Operation Coliseum in which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police beheaded the Rizzuto clan in November 2006.
His sister mentioned it briefly in her letter.
“Lorenzo was at peace with himself, as he was aware that he had paid a high price for his debt to society with years in prison,” she wrote.
Mand Marie-Josée Godbout announced that the intentions of the prosecution were to seek for Scarfo the sentence provided for first degree murder, namely a life sentence without eligibility for parole for 25 years. She will later specify the sentences she will seek for the two counts of conspiracy for which Scarfo was also convicted.
Scarfo’s lawyer is Mr.and Luc Trempe and the case is presided over by Judge Michel Pennou of the Superior Court.
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