Reporter had contract on his head

Frederick Silva, serving a life sentence for carrying out several contract killings, has turned police informer, and among other things has revealed that he himself had put out a contract on the life of La Presse’s Daniel Renaud from jail. But he changed his mind. Renaud, the paper’s specialist in organized crime, intends to go on reporting.

Radio-Canada collects reactions on this story from several Quebec politicians.

TVA with a potted history of Silva.