by chin_gigante » Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:10 pm
There's another mention in this new series of articles about Silva joining the Rizzuto family after the murder of Ducarme Joseph.
Two days later, Frédérick Silva, who organised the assassination, is summoned to a café by two influential members of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia. They invite him to walk down an alley and tell him that members of the Rizzuto family cried upon hearing the news.
The two mafiosi also tell him that he is now part of the family, he, Frédérick Silva, who started from nothing 20 years earlier.
I'm still split 50/50 on what this actually means. It could be an impromptu verbal induction ceremony to acknowledge Silva as a cosa nostra member, but I remain hesitant to double down on that interpretation. The context of it taking place immediately after the successful completion of a murder is compelling, but we're still missing a lot of vital details. Crucially, we don't know who the two men were who met him at the cafe or, if he did indeed join an organisation, what organisation he joined (i.e., was it a Bonanno decina, an independent family, or something else).
There are also other interpretations that I could see some merit in based on what we have. Was this Silva being officially put on record with the Rizzutos? Or was he simply being told that he was now considered part of the immediate personal Rizzuto family because they were so grateful that he had killed the man responsible for the murder of one of their own?
It's very interesting either way, and I'd be very interested to find out more. Hopefully Silva is one day used as a witness in a trial and we can get some more details.
There's another mention in this new series of articles about Silva joining the Rizzuto family after the murder of Ducarme Joseph.
[quote]Two days later, Frédérick Silva, who organised the assassination, is summoned to a café by two influential members of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia. They invite him to walk down an alley and tell him that members of the Rizzuto family cried upon hearing the news.
The two mafiosi also tell him that he is now part of the family, he, Frédérick Silva, who started from nothing 20 years earlier.[/quote]
I'm still split 50/50 on what this actually means. It could be an impromptu verbal induction ceremony to acknowledge Silva as a cosa nostra member, but I remain hesitant to double down on that interpretation. The context of it taking place immediately after the successful completion of a murder is compelling, but we're still missing a lot of vital details. Crucially, we don't know who the two men were who met him at the cafe or, if he did indeed join an organisation, what organisation he joined (i.e., was it a Bonanno decina, an independent family, or something else).
There are also other interpretations that I could see some merit in based on what we have. Was this Silva being officially put on record with the Rizzutos? Or was he simply being told that he was now considered part of the immediate personal Rizzuto family because they were so grateful that he had killed the man responsible for the murder of one of their own?
It's very interesting either way, and I'd be very interested to find out more. Hopefully Silva is one day used as a witness in a trial and we can get some more details.