Mafioso Antonio Pietrantonio would have miraculously escaped an attack Wednesday evening in downtown Montreal, QMI Agency has learned. The man nicknamed Tony Suzuki in the underworld community escaped unscathed thanks to his quick thinking.
According to our information, the crime was committed around 6 p.m., when the 61-year-old long-time criminal had just gotten out of his car with his daughter, at the corner of Queen and Ottawa streets.
Two vehicles carrying several suspects then stopped near Pietrantonio.
One of the men had a knife and another had a gun. Their intention was clear: to shoot Tony Suzuki.
The latter, however, would have had the presence of mind to grab the man with the knife and use it as a “shield” to protect himself from a possible burst of gunfire.
Due to the numerous witnesses present in the area, the suspects abandoned the project and fled. They had still not been arrested the day after the events.
The man nicknamed Tony Suzuki, because he once owned a Suzuki dealership, escaped with superficial injuries that did not require transport to the hospital. Her daughter was not injured.
This is not the first time Pietrantonio has had a brush with death. In December 2011, he was shot in front of a restaurant on Jarry Street in the Ahuntsic district. Doctors even feared for his life for a few days following the attack. He eventually recovered from his injuries.
Antonio Pietrantonio has a long criminal record. In the early 1990s, he was sentenced to three years in prison for a vast conspiracy to import 740 kilos of cocaine, for which Vito Rizzuto’s former right-hand man, Raynald Desjardins, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Antonio Pietrantonio was seen at the lavish wedding of the province’s most powerful Hells Angel, Martin Robert, in December 2018, in downtown Montreal.
