Shot in the abdomen around 3:30 pm
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Laval police are investigating the attempted murder of a man with suspected ties to the Montreal mob who was shot in broad daylight.
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Laval police spokeswoman Geneviève Major said the victim, a man in his 40s, was shot in the abdomen around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on Lévesque Blvd. E., several blocks east of Highway 25.
Major said the man was taken to a hospital but was awaiting information on the victim’s state of health.
A police source confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that the victim is Davide (Baldy) Barberio, 42, a man who was indicted, in 2016, in the Clemenza Project, an investigation by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit that targeted the drug trafficking between different groups within the State. Montreal Mafia.
According to information that came to light in court in the Clemenza Project, Barberio used to work with Giuseppe De Vito, the influential Montreal mob leader who was poisoned with cyanide, on July 8, 2013, while serving time in a prison. federal penitentiary.
Evidence collected in another investigation, the Magot Project, identified Barberio as someone with whom Montreal mob leader Stefano Sollecito allegedly met often between 2013 and 2015.
Reference-montrealgazette.com