Alessandro Sucapane, who was granted parole in 2018, recently saw it revoked by commissioners because he was observed with individuals linked to the mafia, thus violating his conditions.
Sucapane, 58, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for gangsterism, drug trafficking and cannabis production in 2015. He was arrested as part of a major Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation called Clemenza, which targeted the mafia clans who were trying to take the place of the Sicilians after they had been weakened following the historic Colosseum operation of November 2006.
Alessandro Sucapane was the associate of Giuseppe De Vito, who police say was part of an alliance that attempted a putsch against the Sicilian clan in 2010 and 2011.
De Vito, whose clan controlled part of northeast Montreal, died of poisoning from cyanide poured into his smoothie at the Donnacona penitentiary in 2013.
Bad Company
By the end of 2018, Sucapane was granted parole under significant conditions. Among other things, he was not to associate with individuals linked to criminal organizations.
However, in April 2023, a man linked to organized crime, according to the police, approached him about purchasing a restaurant.
The following October, he was observed with this same individual in an establishment frequented by influential members of the Montreal mafia.
Sucapane’s release agent also accuses the latter of having associated with other criminals during the year 2023 without him having mentioned these relationships to him.
Sucapane’s parole was therefore suspended at the beginning of November and the Parole Board of Canada had to decide whether to restore his freedom or cancel it.
Temporary eclipse
By 2018, authorities had an RCMP report that found Sucapane had become detached from organized crime and was no longer a subject of interest to police.
But all that would be a thing of the past, the Commission believes.
“On November 3, 2023, your release officer received information from the security service suggesting that you had regained your position in the world of crime or had perhaps even started to regain it for some time. Concerns have been raised about your numerous chance meetings with important actors, as well as your presence in places known to be frequented by persons of interest, ”writes a parole commissioner in a nine-page decision. delivered on December 27.
Because releasing Sucapane would pose too great a risk to society, the commissioner revoked his parole. But as he will be released again with two thirds of the remainder of his sentence in 2024, the commissioner is already imposing conditions on him with a view to this future release.
Sucapane cannot associate with any individual involved in crime or linked to a criminal organization, cannot possess more than one cell phone, must provide his release agent with his incoming and outgoing call logs and access to his device, must disclose all his financial transactions, including those concerning the repayment of a significant debt that an entrepreneur has contracted with him, and will not be able to frequent licensed establishments.
Killed by mistake in an old HQ
A month ago, police carried out searches in the residences of several influential members of organized crime as part of a major investigation built around the revelations of a former hitman, Frédérick Silva.
The latter, who turned around in the summer of 2022, could allow the police to solve around thirty murders and as many attempted murders committed within organized crime since at least the beginning of the 2010s.
On December 7, the police announced that they were investigating three murders in which the victims were killed by mistake.
One of these assassinations was that of Domenico Facchini, shot dead in a café on Boulevard Provencher, Domenica-In, in the district of Saint-Léonard, on December 21, 2012.
Sucapane frequented this establishment at the time.
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