Even if it has cancer and has a very fragile health, a check in the Montreal mafia accused of murder after the confessions of a former wages killer will have to remain behind bars while waiting for his trial.
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Stefano Sollecito, who only travels in a wheelchair, had stayed at his prison establishment to hear the decision on Friday morning.
He remained a marble when judge Alexandre Boucher decided that he could not leave the prison while waiting for his trial. An order of non-publication prevents us from disseminating the arguments behind this decision, as well as the evidence understood at the hearings.
The 58 -year -old mafia was only present at the Montreal courthouse only one of the three days of his survey on release.
A sign that the installations are not suitable, two health workers had to handle their wheelchair for long moments to place it between the seats screwed to the box of the window of the glass accused.
“The health of Mr. Sollecito is very fragile,” said his lawyer,e Laurence July-St-Jean, during her appearance in June.
During his arrest for gangsterism in Operation Magot in 2015, Stefano Sollecito was already suffering from cancer. A judge had then ordered his release during the procedures in order to undergo treatments against the disease. He was finally acquitted three years later.
However, he is today faced with an accusation of murder in the first degree of the Mafieux Lorenzo Lopresti. He is also criticized for having plotted to commit those of the Mafieux Giuseppe Renda, Moreno Gallo, Antonio Vanelli, Joseph Di Maulo, Salvatore Montagna and Antonio Pietrantonio (alias Tony Suzuki) and the Caïd Raynald Desjardins between 2011 and 2019.
Only Desjardins, Pietrantonio and Vanelli escaped death.
Revelations of a hitman
These accusations are the fruit of the revelations of Frédérick Silva, a killer in the pay of the Rizzuto clan. While he was behind bars for four murders in 2022, he decided to empty his bag to the police.
Its revelations would allow investigators to elucidate sixty plots for murder, according to information from our investigation office.
Sollecito, considered by the authorities as a mafia codirigent for over 10 years, was targeted during the first wave of arrests of the Alliance project last June.
In all, 11 men were accused, including Leonardo Rizzuto, lawyer since suspended from the bar and son of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto.
Stefano Sollecito will be back in court in September for the rest of the procedures.
