![]() ![]() He said it worried him that the incident occurred during the day in a busy parking lot. Gélinas said that given the case touches on organized crime and involves a well-known family, there are people who likely know why it happened but won’t share with police. “The history of the Mafia is full of women and children who’ve been killed, so I think when they have an obstacle, when they have to send a message, they don’t pay attention to gender, they have to deliver a message and that is important for them, nothing else.” “I think there is a misconception about the idea that the mafia is not killing women or children,” Antonio Nicaso, an organized crime author and Queen’s University professor, said Wednesday from Italy. ![]() “Organized crime and code of honour don’t conjugate in the same sentence,” said Gélinas, a former sergeant-detective in the criminal intelligence unit.Īnd he said chances were slim that Iacono was hit by mistake she was killed in front of a business she owned and actively promoted.Īnother expert said it’s not that unusual in Mafia circles for there to be retribution against family. But he said he doesn’t ascribe any code of honour to criminals. Retired Montreal police officer André Gélinas said it’s unusual that an extended family member of a Mafia boss would be targeted, particularly a woman. A police cruiser is shown at an apartment building in Montreal, Sunday, Aug. ![]() Montreal police are investigating a second homicide in less than 12 hours after a man was found shot dead in a parking lot in a northern borough. Iacono was married to one of Gallo’s sons, Anthony. ![]() Gallo was killed in 2013 in Acapulco, Mexico, a few years after he was deported from Canada. The car was found in the parking lot outside a popular salon that Iacono owned in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district. Multiple reports identified the victim as Claudia Iacono, 39, the daughter-in-law of the late Moreno Gallo, a reputed mob boss. Montreal police on Tuesday found a woman shot dead in a car that was still running and had collided with a building. MONTREAL – A brazen daylight shooting of a Montreal salon owner has Mafia experts calling out the ruthlessness and arrogance of organized crime in the city. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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