Murder of a mafioso: the patience of a judge is reaching its limits

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Raynald Desjardins

Éric Thibault

Thursday, September 7, 2017 12:53

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The six accomplices who helped the guy Raynald Desjardins to orchestrate the murder of an aspiring godfather of the mafia in 2011 will finally receive their sentences on 12 September, a year and a half after pleading guilty.

Visibly exasperated by this further demonstration of the slowness of the judicial system of quebec, the judge André Vincent, who is believed to be able to close the file of the murder of Salvatore Montagna Thursday at the palais de justice de Laval, has consented to a final request for surrender of the defence.

They lobbied to have the “final checks” to do before agreeing with the Crown on the penalties to be imposed.

“This will be the last time, announced to the judge of the superior Court. The accused have admitted their guilt on march 30, 2016. At a given time, it takes to an end.”

Nine years have already purged

The six acolytes of guy Desjardins – his right arm, Vittorio Mirarchi, the alleged shooter, Jack Simpson, as well as Calogero Milioto, Pietro Magistrale, Steven D’addario, and Steven Roar – were arrested on 20 December 2011 and accused of the premeditated murder of Montagna.

This ex-head of the family mafia new york-based Bonanno had been hit by three bullets on the 24th of November last, although he had been brought to the home of Simpson, Charlemagne, under the pretext to meet with Desjardins to settle their disputes.

As their boss, Mirarchi and five other defendants have pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to murder.

The six men are imprisoned now for 69 months. However, they will have served the equivalent of nearly nine years on their sentence to come, since every day spent in remand is worth one-and-a-half after the current rule before our courts.

Raynald Desjardins was sentenced to 14 years in prison in December 2016, but given the remand past, it was now six and a half years to be served. He, too, had received his sentence of a year and a half after being admitted to guilty of conspiracy.

The communications via text messages, of the members of the septet had been intercepted without their knowledge by the RCMP, in the fall of 2011, while planning the murder of Salvatore Montagna.

In September of that year, Desjardins had survived a murder attempt at the AK-47 to Laval. He was convinced that the shot came from Montagna, while the alliance that the two men had formed to take control of the mafia in montreal was in the process of exploding.