Westmount pizzeria hit by gunfire
Gentile Pizzeria in Westmount was hit by gunfire overnight.
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mare 10:50 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
Interesting, they start combining the “gunshots with no victims’ with arsons.
You never hear that all those arsons of restaurants and other businesses that happened over the years have ever been solved, and a protection racket rolled up by the police. (Or if they did, they kept it very quiet.)
Will this one fare better, now it fits in the current ‘narrative of interest’?
Chris 11:03 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
What “narrative of interest” are you alluding to?
Ephraim 11:20 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
@mare – The Pizza Huts in St-Leonard and Anjou used to have a sign on the door saying that they were corporately owned and had no control over buying.
Kate 11:31 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
It’s a long-standing grift in this town: the mob wants to control pizza toppings – the cheese and the pepperoni in particular – and force pizzerias to only buy from them. It sounds like a comic mob movie setup, but it isn’t.
Tim S. 11:43 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
I remember awhile ago the RCMP, I think, set up a currency-exchange shop as part of a sting operation to catch money launderers. How hard would it be to set up a pizza place and see who comes asking for protection money?
shawn 13:03 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
Yes it’s no joke. I spoke with someone from the Italian community who told me that early on people had no choice but to buy cheese from Saputo. It’s a legit company now but its mafia ties remain a contested topic: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-dairy-mogul-lino-saputo-had-secret-past-dealings-with-u-s-mobster-joe-bonanno-then-lied-about-it-1.5428629
Kate 15:34 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
Tim S., now that IS a mob movie setup.
dwgs 17:34 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
That currency exchange was on de Maisonneuve at Peel, right across the street from where the money launderers had an office. The office was, perhaps not coincidentally, on the second or third floor of the building where the temporarily shuttered Chez Alexandre is.
mare 23:38 on 2023-01-31 Permalink
@Chris The increase of shootings without victims or perpetrators that was the reason to add millions to the police budget.