Montreal police are searching for two men after a gangland-style shooting killed two people and injured two others in the city's historic waterfront business district. The bold slaying in broad daylight is believed to be a violent response to the December slaying of the son of reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Rizzuto is considered by Canadian officials to be the most powerful mob boss in Canada. Some observers consider that the strength of the Rizzuto clan rivals that of any of the Five Families in New York and dubbed it the Sixth Family. His son, Nicolo Rizzuto (Nick Jr.), was shot and killed near his car in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce a borough in Montreal on December 28, 2009. It seems like the war is on. It is not clear yet who ordered the killing of Rizzuto's son, but a Haitian organized crime group is suspected of involvement.
Rizzuto is being housed in a Federal Pennitentiary in Florence. Rizzuto pleaded guilty to being present in the triple murder in 1981. As part of a plea bargain agreement, he received a 10-year prison sentence to be followed by a three-year supervised release. There is also an outstanding arrest warrant that was issued in Rome against Rizzuto in connection with alleged Mafia involvement in building a bridge across the Strait of Messina connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily, one of the biggest public works projects in Italy's history. The 3,690-metre-long, suspension-type bridge, planned to open by 2011, is expected to cost about €5 billion ($7.3 billion Cdn).
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