Deux-Montagnes police are studying the possibility that the shots that struck the residence of an uneventful family on Tuesday are linked to a fire that allegedly targeted their neighbor, the son of the ex-construction magnate, in July. Tony Accurso.
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Calls were made to 911 following detonations were heard in the early morning on 15th Avenue near Boulevard du Lac.
The police dispatched to the scene found shell casings on the ground as well as projectile impacts on two vehicles and a residence.
Photo Laurent Lavoie
For much of the day on Tuesday, Deux-Montagnes police blocked the street where numerous shots rang out in the early morning. A family of two adults and four children under the age of ten was inside the residence in question.
A family of two adults and four children under the age of ten were inside the residence, said the Lac des Deux-Montagnes Police Department.
No one was injured in this family, unknown to police circles, who were met by the authorities during the day.
“It’s awful when there are children. It’s upsetting. These [criminels] do not have a heart”, plagues Souad Mariami, who heard the many gunshots.
Fire
According to our information, this shooting occurs following a vehicle was set on fire, at the beginning of July, in the entrance of the house belonging among others to Giovanni Vincenzo Accurso, one of the sons of Antonio “Tony” Accurso, an ex-tycoon of building. The latter also lives on 15th Avenue.
The police will thus seek to know if the two events are linked.
The target family had just moved into the neighborhood, having bought their residence at the end of April.
That the former owners were in the crosshairs of criminals or that street gangs were involved are the least plausible theses, indicates the inspector at the Régie de police du Lac des Deux-Montagnes Jean-Philippe Labbé.
Long roadmap
In the last decade, the name of Tony Accurso has been linked to a fraudulent system of awarding public contracts by the City of Laval, between 1996 and 2010, under the reign of ex-mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.
In 2018, the now 70-year-old was found guilty of bribery, breach of trust, fraud and conspiracy following a second trial.
The ex-entrepreneur was sentenced to serve four years in prison. He appealed his case for the first time, in vain.
Accurso appealed his case once more last June to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, and was able to regain his freedom pending proceedings following spending only a few days in prison.
– With the QMI Agency and Charles Mathieu, Investigation Office
