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MONTREAL—Security guards are protecting the entrance to a church this morning in Montreal’s Little Italy.

 

It’s no ordinary funeral taking place inside: this one is for the elderly boss of Canada’s best-known criminal clan.

 

About 200 curious onlookers are crowding to get a glimpse of people arriving for the funeral of Nicolo Rizzuto.

 

A string of black cars, adorned with heaping white flower bouquets, pulled up to the church, and Rizzuto’s gold-coloured coffin was pulled out and carried inside by pallbearers.

 

The elderly don was shot in his Montreal mansion last Wednesday, becoming the latest member of his family gunned down.

 

A number of news reporters attempted to enter the church to cover the funeral. Most were either blocked at the entrance or whisked out by a swarm of burly security guards.

 

But the heightened security isn’t just there to protect the Rizzutos. It’s also gathering intelligence.

 

Police detectives are keeping an eye on who’s coming and going, with some officers filming people and licence plates.

 

News photographers and cameramen have found a higher perch on a balcony across the street, seeking a better vantage point.

 

This morning, a suspicious package was found on the church steps — a black box with a white cross taped onto the top.

 

Police say the box contained only a piece of paper. It has been handed over to investigators.

 

One onlooker standing outside noted the irony of such a large crowd gathered for a criminal’s funeral.

 

“With so many people here they should have done it at Olympic Stadium,” said the man, declining to give his name.

 

“Still, it’s interesting to see all this.”

 

Hundreds, even thousands, are expected for the funeral service.

 

One retired police officer said he suspects many of the big names in the Mafia will shy away from the 86-year-old’s funeral, avoiding the scrutiny of police and the media.

 

John Galianos, a former member of the Quebec provincial police, says the Mafia has become more cautious in recent years, following a massive 2006 police dragnet where scores of its members were arrested.

 

“It’s just a feeling I have that a lot of big names won’t be there,” he said.

 

As proof, he pointed to the recent funeral of Rizzuto’s grandson, Nick, which many top mobsters avoided.

 

Still, Galianos said such events remain a valuable form of information-gathering for police, and he said they will be busy photographing and filming mourners as they file into the church.

 

In some cases, police photos of top mobsters are badly of out date, going back more than 20 years, he said.

 

“People get older, and they start to look different, so they’ll be trying to identify these guys,” he said.

 

At the visitation on the weekend, dozens of officers, some in plainclothes and others in uniform, began documenting mourners the moment they started filing into an east-end Montreal funeral home.

 

Another team of officers was busy writing down the licence plates of those who entered the funeral home parking lot.

 

Several hundred people, many dressed in black from head to toe, filed into the building on Saturday and Sunday to pay their respects to Rizzuto, who was shot by a marksman’s bullet in his home on Wednesday.

 

At times, traffic was so heavy outside the funeral home that police had to help cars enter and leave the parking lot.

 

A team of bodyguards, who wore ear pieces and restricted access to the site, remained visible throughout the weekend.

 

Those who made it inside reported that dozens of wreaths and bouquets lined the room where Rizzuto’s body rested.

 

According to one visitor, Rizzuto’s trademark fedora had been placed by his side.

 

Leandre Paradis, a Longueuil resident who made the visit out of curiosity, said there were about 12 or 15 people in line to receive condolences from visitors.

 

Rizzuto, dubbed by many as the “last godfather,” arrived in Canada as an illiterate immigrant from Sicily and went on to build one of the world’s most powerful criminal enterprises with influence on different continents.

 

The Rizzuto clan not only raked in money from vice and drugs, but also extended into untold businesses in various sectors considered legitimate.

 

The family and its associates have been targeted in a series of recent slayings that crime analysts consider an attempt to end its hold on power.

 

But the biggest, most powerful member of the Rizzuto family remains alive.

 

Vito Rizzuto, the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, is serving a 10-year sentence in the United States for racketeering, related to three underworld murders in Brooklyn in 1981.

 

It’s expected that, on Monday, he won’t be at his father’s funeral – which would be the second one he’s missed this year. He didn’t make it to his son Nick’s last January.

 

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/890883--security-tight-for-rizzuto-funeral-at-montreal-church?bn=1

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Still, Galianos said such events remain a valuable form of information-gathering for police, and he said they will be busy photographing and filming mourners as they file into the church.

 

In some cases, police photos of top mobsters are badly of out date, going back more than 20 years, he said.

 

“People get older, and they start to look different, so they’ll be trying to identify these guys,” he said.

 

 

 

 

These fools are working off of pictures from the 80's? Doesn't say much for their surveillance work.

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All you guys making fun of the Rizzuto family...at least they got worldwide respect and brought peace between families.

 

Not naming names, but a couple of you guys claim to read books on this shit but clearly have no idea.

 

Anyway, here is a real life AMERICAN mobster for you:

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/973810--former-new-york-mob-boss-breaks-sacred-vow?bn=1

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