Posted on 05/10/2013 2:47:33 PM PDT by MarkBsnr
Two senior members of the Canadian mafia have been murdered in Sicily and their bodies incinerated, victims of what police suspect is a vicious turf war in Canada which has spilled over into the Cosa Nostra's Italian heartland. After an anonymous tip-off, the bodies of Juan Ramon Paz Fernandez and Fernando Pimentel were discovered near a rubbish dump in the countryside outside Palermo on Thursday. Police described the double killing as an "old-fashioned" gangland hit. Spanish-born Fernandez, 57, a notoriously tough enforcer for Montreal's Rizzuto clan, was expelled from Canada last year for the third time after serving a 10-year sentence for conspiracy to murder a fellow mobster. He resurfaced in Palermo, where he was suspected of teaming up with the Cosa Nostra to build drug-trafficking links between Sicily and Canada. Pimentel arrived in Palermo a few weeks ago to join Fernandez, who was allegedly working as a martial arts instructor as cover for his mob activities. Nicknamed Joey Bravo in Canada, Fernandez was a feared right-hand man of Sicily-born Vito Rizzuto, who allied with New York's Bonanno family to build an unrivalled mafia empire in Canada in the 1980s, handling drugs, loan sharking, gambling and contract killing. In the midst of a turf war allegedly pitting the clan with a breakaway faction, Rizzuto was jailed while rivals murdered his father and son, the latter buried in a gold coffin which was paraded through Montreal's Little Italy. Fernandez stayed loyal to Rizzuto while he served his own time in jail in Canada, and was suspected by police of continuing to run operations through criminal associates. He was also suspected of being behind the murder of drug dealer Constantin "Big Gus" Alevizos in 2008.
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I'm not suggesting that the Mafia is necessarily benign, but oddly, they did provide a certain pacifying street presence.
Now if we could just get the Mafia to go to war with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Phffft! These guys can’t hold a candle to the Mexican gangs. Pikers!
> Now if we could just get the Mafia to go to war with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sicily vs. the Obama White House? Could be interesting.
Thank you!
It’s just business. they never execute for personal reasons.
I always wondered if the US government gave the Italian/Sicilian Mafia the rights to the US drug trade and the US government would turn a blind eye.....could they wipe out the islamic drug trade as well as the Mexican cartels.
For them its just business, not personal.
The Mexicans kill everyone, the Sicilian/Italian Mafia does not kill for the personal only business.
Make 'em an offer that they cannot refuse.
And they never did violence in their grandmothers' neighborhoods!
Still not as criminal as Obama.
How can you tell if a person was killed by the Canadian Mafia?
When they pull a body out of lake Ontario....arms tied up by a hockey stick and feet weighed down by a pair of curling stones.
If Ubama and the rats decide to run Moochelle against Hillary for the rat nomination in 2016, we could have a mob war between the Chicago mafia and the Dixie mafia. Stock up on popcorn.
I'm a little skeptical. The Godfather trilogy was fiction that airbrushed the sociopathic personalities of mob figures. The real-life characters in Goodfellas are a lot closer to what the average mobster is like. John Gotti had his neighbor killed for accidentally running over his son.
That was father killing the guy who killed his son, nothing to do with the family business.
Looks like natural causes to me. For the mafia, anyway.
Which goes against "they never execute for personal reasons".
No not really, I was strictly speaking within the Family.
The killing had nothing to do with the Family.
And they never did violence in their grandmothers' neighborhoods!
That's because their 4-1/2' tall grandmothers would kick their asses.
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