Frédérick Silva admitted Tuesday morning that the prosecution has discharged its burden and that the evidence presented against him is probative.
Silva, 40, has been on trial for seven weeks for an attempted murder against mafia clan chief Salvatore Scoppa, which occurred in Terrebonne in February 2017, and for the murders of Alessandro Vinci, committed in Laval in October 2018, and those of Yvon Marchand and Sébastien Beauchamp, clerk in October and December 2018 in Montreal.
Judge Marc David of the Superior Court, who is presiding over the trial, has not yet found Frederick Silva guilty of these crimes. This rebound, however, practically ends the trial and the case has been postponed until November 16.
Silva chose to admit that the prosecution had discharged its burden to retain its right of appeal.
The trial was suspended last week when an investigator from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) was preparing to describe a search carried out in a condo on Duke Street, in the Griffintown sector of Montreal, where Silva went into hiding when he was arrested in February 2019.
Frédérick Silva is due to undergo a jury trial next May for another murder committed in May 2017 in Montreal.
More details to come.