Murder of three innocent people: the police arrive at the homes of big names in organized crime

Some of the highest leaders of organized crime received a visit from police officers Thursday morning, as part of a major investigation including the murders of three innocent people committed in greater Montreal since 2012.

This series of searches targeting influential players in the underworld is directly linked to the revelations of the hitman for organized crime Frédérick Silva.

The latter decided to turn around in the summer of 2022 and become an informer. According to our information, he himself committed or was involved in no less than 65 murders or attempted murders over the last two decades in the province.

Thursday morning, police conducted numerous searches, mainly on the North Shore of Montreal, as part of three investigations into unsolved murders.

At dawn, the police raided the residences of Pietro D’Adamo, Jean-Philippe Célestin, Vito Salvaggio, Davide Barberio, Dany Sprinces Cadet and Emmanuel Zéphyr.

“These searches are in addition to five others carried out over the last 48 hours in Vaudreuil-Dorion as well as in the Montreal boroughs of Anjou, Lachine and Montreal-North,” Montreal police said in a press release.

These searches aim to gather evidence in the files of the murders of Lida Phon, Domenico Facchini and Nicolas Lavoie-Cloutier.

M^me Phon, a 32-year-old mother, was riddled with bullets in Laval in late August 2012. According to police, she may have been killed by mistake, when the real target was her husband, Ziad Ziade, a football player. important part of organized crime.

A few months later, a few days before Christmas in 2012, Domenico Facchini, 37, was murdered in an Italian café in the Saint-Léonard district of Montreal. It seems that there was a mistaken identity: the person who was targeted was Giuseppe “Ponytail” De Vito, also an important member of the Montreal mafia.

De Vito was later poisoned with cyanide while incarcerated at the Donnacona prison in the Quebec region.

Finally, Nicolas-Lavoie Cloutier, an 18-year-old small-time drug trafficker, was shot and killed in 2018 in Terrebonne, on the northern outskirts of Montreal. According to the police theory, there was once again a case of mistaken identity.