A new assassination linked to organized crime occurred in broad daylight on Monday in Dorval, in the west of the island of Montreal.
Around 1:00 p.m., Montreal police were called to Dorval, where gunshots had been reported.
Arriving on site, rue Saint-Régis, near Deacon Avenue, they discovered the body of a man with firearm projectiles in a parking lot near a training center.
His death was pronounced on the spot.
According to information from The Canadian Press, it is Francesco Del Balso, 53, a known figure in the Italian mafia in Montreal. However, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) did not want to confirm this information.
No suspects have been apprehended so far. The investigation is continuing.
Francesco Del Balso was suspected by police of being behind the attempted murder of the son of late mob boss Vito Rizzuto, Leonardo Rizzuto, who had become one of Montreal’s Italian organized crime leaders. However, he had survived the assassination attempt that occurred in mid-March in Laval.
A few days later, Del Balso was intercepted by the police at Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau airport in Montreal as he was trying to leave the country. They then released him, not without seizing his passport.
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