A condo rented by well-known entrepreneur Olivier Primeau in Laval was the target of gunfire overnight from Sunday to Monday, learned The Press. The principal concerned, however, claims that he was not the person concerned.
One or more suspects would have presented themselves around midnight and would have targeted the accommodation located at 3e floor of the Aquablu real estate complex, in Laval, on the side of rue Étienne Lajoie.
They allegedly got out of a car before firing several shots and fleeing, our sources said.
At around 9 a.m., the Service de police de Laval (SPL) was then alerted by the building manager that shots had been fired at a particular condo, its spokeswoman, Stephanie Beshara, confirmed. without wanting to confirm the name of the owner or tenant of the condo in question.
Upon their arrival, the officers noted the presence of several bullet holes visible in the windows of the accommodation. Crime scene technicians were called to the scene to reconstruct the facts.
On Tuesday, planks were placed over the windows targeted by the shots.
The police will probably view the surveillance cameras of the building in order to identify the author of the shots.
Primeau reacts
Joined Tuesday, Olivier Primeau confirmed the facts, but denied being the target of the shots. He spoke with SPL officers on Tuesday about it.
“In this tower, where I live, there are really people known to the world of crime,” he said in particular. “Are you my condo?” Are you the condo upstairs? Are you the guy who was there before me? I have no idea ! he speculated.
“I know it, I can say it, I have nothing to do with it. I’m zero stressed in there, ”he then explained. “Who lives in the condo above mine?” I’ve no idea. »
The businessman, who confirms renting this condo bordering the Rivière des Prairies for “five or six” weeks, is currently in Miami, Florida, and was therefore not present on the evening of the crime.
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Entrepreneur Olivier Primeau
Olivier Primeau, however, claims to fear the consequences of this news on his business. “I never had any threats, I never had anything. It’s so big for me, but I feel my life is zero in danger. Zero, zero, zero. It’s more the whole repercussion, if it comes out very badly in the news, it’s going to be a disaster for my businesses,” he says.
He adds that he is “100%” convinced that the police investigation will show that he was not the target of these shots.
Grocery store, Beachclub, festivals
If his family made a fortune in supermarkets, it is mainly thanks to the Beachclub in Pointe-Calumet, on the north shore of Montreal, that Olivier Primeau built his reputation.
After losing more than a million dollars during the pandemic due to health measures that forced the closure of this pleasure establishment, he admitted in an interview to the Montreal Journal not be as fortunate as the public image he chooses to project.
More recently, the businessman also made a name for himself as a festival organizer by setting up Métro Métro, a weekend of electronic music concerts on the Esplanade of the Olympic Park, as well as Escapade, in Ottawa. , and Fuego Fuego, a Latin music festival at the Olympic Park.
Not to mention its many partnerships, current and past, with well-known brands such as Veuve Cliquot champagne and McDonald’s.
In 2019, the entrepreneur also entrusted The Press that the sale of cans of Beach Day Every Day liquor, its house brand brewed by Labatt, had passed the three million unit mark.