One of the leaders of the Arab Power gang that the police suspect that they were behind a wave of extortion and criminal fires in Montreal, would have been murdered to the Donnacona penitentiary, learned The newspaper of two concordant sources.
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Sylvain Kabbouchi, who had already been described as “a real headliner of violence in Laval”, would have been found dead this Sunday morning at the penitentiary where he was serving a perpetuity sentence for murder.
At just 26 years old, the criminal climbed the ladder of the interlope world, becoming one of the leading heads of Arab Power, a gang that has engaged in a merciless war against Jean-Philippe Célestin, a member of the Marauders, school club of Hells Angels.
However, even if he had been serving since April a life prison sentence for the murder of Nitchell Lapaix, which occurred at the exit of a bar of dancers from Laval in the summer of 2021, he continued to operate from the penitentiary thanks to cellulars which he brought illegally.
“Nothing to lose”
No later than at the beginning of the month, stakeholders in the judicial system were alarmed that Kabbouchi, among others, managed to operate thus.
“They will continue to make the rain and the good weather. It has to stop, ”deplored an experienced prosecutor that is not allowed to comment on this file.
A police source said that these criminals covered “almost the entire organized Montreal crime with their contacts”, especially since they have “nothing to lose”.
Following a report of Journal Exposing the situation, surveillance had been tightened around him, according to our information.
Kabbouchi was also accused, with several other suspects, of having plotted “to commit the murder of the members of the Downtown Project and their allies” between June 2023 and August 2024.
The murderer is also suspected of having harassed and intimidated the family of a correctional agent while he was in detention in Sorel-Tracy, in June 2024.
Pizza ordered from its cell
At the time when he was preventively detained at the establishment of Rivière-des-Prairies, he seized the courts to complain about his conditions of detention.
“He does not have access to school or any program and has access to no activity. His level of security is increased for no valid reason, ”he said through his lawyers.
Kabbouchi also complained of not having access to a functional television, that the door of his fridge was damaged, or that the fresh air in his cell would wander his health problems.
However, while complaining, he narrated the authorities, as in fact the day he ordered pizza from cells, by phone, for supposedly “make the guards laugh”.
Due to the troubles he caused, the guards began to search his cell, sometimes every week, but Kabbouchi seemed to have means to hide his telecommunications devices.