Fears Quebec Starbucks gang shooting could signal shift to brazen tactics | Canada
Observer, this week, a leading Quebec gang leader in a suburbucks on the skirts of Montreal this week, the murder of a brazen daylight, can specify a new, more chaotic and arrogant environment when it comes to an organized crime.
In June, the arrest of the elderly, elderly members of the mafia of Montreal left a potentially gap – so new, younger gangs are trying to gain a basis.
At a press conference, the police said that Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, was called to a Starbucks in Laval at 10.30 on Wednesday, because of reports of a fire inside the coffee shop. A man was killed and two people were injured.
Although the police did not verify the victim’s name, more than one Canadian media organization said that the murdered man was the convicted drug smuggler Charalambos Theologou, also known as “Greek Bobby. Theologou was the leader of a gang called Chomedey Greeks.
“Everything is an action -related action, everything is an action -related action.”
Laval’s police chief Pierre Brochet said to journalists that he knew the man killed because of his “reputation”, although he could not comment on the investigation on Wednesday. “It is linked to organized crime,” he said.
Surveillance Images Obtained by Radyo-Kanada It shows the two men who entered Starbucks and then came out quickly after the shoot.
According to the Montreal Newspaper Gazete, Theologou first was first attached to a criminal activity in 2005, the police in Montreal arrested him and six people in a drug trafficking investigation. Finally, he was found guilty of drug -related charges and was sentenced to two years in prison.
According to the newspaper, Theologou was arrested for the second time in 2009 for drug trafficking and was later sentenced to five years in prison.
Valentin Pereda, an assistant professor of Montreal University Criminology School, said that the organized crime in the region was characterized by the implementation of restrictions on the violence of the people and based on an open hierarchical structure.
A daring day light murder in a coffee shop chain shows that it may not be a big player holding orders, as it may affect the work of violence when it comes to drug trafficking.
He said that the group aiming at Teologou said that the group would not “care about public violence to kill the gang leader.
However, Pereda said it was more likely that there was a loss of structure and control in Montreal regarding the major arrests of Mafia’s alleged presidents in June.
After a three -year investigation, the police detained the alleged mafia leader Leonardo Rizzuto and accused the first -degree murder and other relevant crimes. Rizzuto reported then.
In 2008, Vito Rizzuto referred to as the Best Best Mafia Boss in Canada ,, was imprisoned in the USA in the United States after being found guilty of conspiring murder and tribute in New York in the early 1980s. He died in 2013.
The Rizzuto crime family has long been a long -fame – and the arrest of Rizzuto was considered the last “nail in the coffin için for Montreal Mafia.
He left a hole that young street gangs wanted to fill. Pereda, Wednesday’s shooting is an indication of an unstable, fluent situation, he said. “There are these very small, well -organized gangs fighting for control,” he said.
