A mafioso whose head is released

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Francesco Del Balso is escorted by police officers from the RCMP when he was arrested in operation Colisee in November 2006.

Éric Thibault

Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:26

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:33

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“This time, you will see me again,” said the mafioso laval Francesco Del Balso before leaving the penitentiary, on Thursday, knowing that the murderers will soon be on his heels.

Del Balso, one of the last strong men of a clan Rizzuto decimated by many murders, was successful with the parole Board of Canada after having spent the last nine months in prison.

The 47-year-old swore that he had “cut off ties” with the criminal underworld and renounced crime after his conviction and sentence to 15 years in prison for gangsterism and drug trafficking, related to the Coliseum of the royal Canadian mounted police.

But the mafioso who has the reputation of not being cold to the eyes has admitted to the commissioner Michel Lalonde that he knows that enemies want to be her skin.

“I don’t know why, but it probably has something to do with my past. I have not asked that armed people come in my house with the intent to kill me. “

“Dad, help ! “

This is what happened on may 6, a day he will not forget ” never “.

At the wheel of his vehicle, Del Balso was “six minutes” from his residence in Laval when he received a text message alarming her 12 year old son.

“Dad, help ! There is a man with a gun here and he points to my brother, ” said the father, who, in a panic, alerted the 911.

“When I arrived, my wife came out shouting after me : “get out of here !” They have asked to see you, and they want to kill you ! “

The two proud armed had already fled, and they were eventually apprehended.

Del Balso is also saved. Before, it got rid of the electronic bracelet with a GPS, which enabled authorities federal correctional of the track during his parole, as is the case with several ex-prisoners.

This is the first time that a former inmate on supervised release was in the country, according to the commissioner Lalonde.

As a ” zombie “

“I had this reflex, thinking that it would bring police reinforcements to my house. I was like a zombie, in shock, ” said Del Balso.

It was delivered two hours later and was escorted to a penitentiary in Laval, where he was still holed up Thursday.

Even if his life in freedom is synonymous with danger, he fought to get it back. His lawyers have unsuccessfully asked the courts to bring it out before Christmas.

“It has been returned to prison for safety, but this is not the role of the Commission to protect the life of Mr. Del Balso “, pleaded Me Rita Magloé-Francis on Thursday, adding that his client does not present ” no risk of recidivism “.

► The future place of residence, employment, and the conditions that must abide by this former head of sports betting for the mafia, are kept secret.

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“Next on the list” ?

Francesco Del Balso had been brought down to prison for his own safety when others close to the clan Rizzuto have been murdered. It was in the transition house for three weeks when the aspirant patron Lorenzo “Skunk” Giordano made a screen of bullets in Laval, on march 1, 2016.

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Lorenzo Giordano
Victim

Del Balso had been the right arm of Giordano, also arrested in the operation Colisée. Del Balso was then welcomed in a halfway house in Quebec city rather than Montreal, since the authorities had information to the effect that he is “next on the execution list” of the mafia.

The following October, he nevertheless had to return to prison for a few days after the murder of Vincenzo Spagnolo, the best friend of the deceased godfather Vito Rizzuto.

A good espresso…

On April 30, 2017, Francesco Del Balso and stopped in front of an Italian café on the boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montreal, and he has asked his eldest son to go get him an espresso. Del Balso had been banned from entering all Italian coffee during his parole.

The only problem is that it did not have the right not to be in this sector of the metropolis for security reasons. His electronic bracelet betrayed him to the correctional service federal.

“I made a mistake. I wanted a real good espresso, “he explained to the commissioner Lalonde, adding that it” would have had to go to Mcdonalds “.

Recognized at the Bell Centre

In parole, Francesco Del Balso can not come into contact with people linked to organized crime. In the case of such a fortuitous meeting, he shall notify the correctional services.

On march 30, 2017, he went to see a match of Canada at the Bell Centre. On the spot, he is said to have crossed Normand Robitaille, a retired member of the Hells Angels with whom he has been incarcerated in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines.

“I just told him : “Hello”. That’s all, ” he recounted Thursday. The problem is that police officers present at the home of the CH they recognized them and they were the first to notify the correctional authorities who have been preached to Del Balso as soon as the next day.