Frédérick Silva

Killer Frédérick Silva put a $100k contract on La Presse crime reporter Daniel Renaud in the fall of 2022.

Silva made a deal with cops to become an informant a year later. Homes of high-profile organized crime figures have been raided, including Pietro D’Adamo, Vito Salvaggio, and Jean-Philippe Célestin, a well-known street gang leader and right hand of the murdered Gregory Wolley. Warrants are tied to Frédérick Silva and involve 65 murders.

Girard Anglade is a career gangster who has known Frédérick Silva for two decades. In 2005 Anglade and Silva were arrested together after a series of violent home invasions in Laval and Rivière-des-Prairies.

In 2018, while sheltering Silva he tried to kill Jean-Guy Bourgouin. Anglade approached him with a 9mm Glock equipped with a silencer. Anglade fired one shot before his gun jammed. Bourgouin fired back hitting Anglade’s left arm. Bourgouin was not charged. Girard Anglade bought 6 years.

Pietro D'Adamo was sentenced to 80 months in prison in 2009 for conspiracy, possession of cocaine and gangsterism.

Vito Salvaggio supported Silva while he was in hiding.

Dany 'Lou' Sprinces Cadet.

Dany Sprinces Cadet, Emmanuel Zéphyr and Davide Barberio were also cop targets. Frédérick Silva's media black-out has been extensive.

Emmanuel Zéphyr.

Davide Barberio.

Frédérick Silva was whisked away by a cop helicopter from the federal Ste-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary north of Montreal. He's under 24 hour police protection at a secret location. All information revealed by Frédérick Silva must be corroborated and it could be over 50 murders. Searches were carried out in the Laurentians looking for the remains of Montreal gangster Jean-Raymond Claude. Claude was a member of the 67, a former Montreal street gang of the blues, led by Ducarme Joseph, who was also killed in 2014. Ducarme Joseph was suspected of killing Nick Rizzuto Jr., eldest son of godfather Vito Rizzuto, in December 2009.

Quebec press say Frédérick Silva will confess to all his crimes, his accomplices, and implicate those giving the orders.

Frédérick Silva tried to kill mafia boss Salvatore Scoppa in 2017 who was then murdered in the spring of 2019. Close to the Hells Angels, Sébastien Beauchamp was killed by a bullet in the head in 2018. Silva had refused to cooperate but had a change of heart after being warned of a $250k contract on his life.

Silva's weapon from the attempted hit on Salvatore Scoppa.

Silva was convicted of killing 4. Among them was Sébastien Beauchamp, a member of a Hells Angels puppet club in Dec 2018. He was also convicted of the attempted hit on mafia boss Salvatore Scoppa. Two associates of Silva were killed within 60 days. Sébastien Giroux was shot on May 11, 2023. Bernard Cherfan in June.

Silva went by metro to murder Alessandro Vinci in Oct 2018.

A six figure murder contract is out on Silva, who was sentenced to 25 years without parole. His collaboration will seriously shake organized crime in Montreal and Quebec.