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On June 12, 2025, Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito were arrested along with nine other men charged with first degree murder of Lorenzo Lopresti. They were also charged with conspiracy to commit murder of eight other men.
This overstates the Lopresti case charges. Contemporary reporting says 11 men were arrested overall, but only Rizzuto and six others were charged in Lorenzo Lopresti’s killing, and the conspiracy count covered Lopresti plus seven other people—not eight other men.
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Canadian Press reporting from June 12, 2025 distinguishes between the broader Project Alliance arrests and the specific Lorenzo Lopresti case.
- Police arrested 11 men in the operation, and the report says they were all facing first-degree murder charges in some form.
- But for Lopresti’s 2011 killing specifically, the report says "Rizzuto and six other men" were charged.
- It then says those seven men were charged with conspiring to murder "Lopresti and seven other people".
So the article’s wording is inaccurate in two ways:
- It makes it sound as though all 11 arrested men were charged with the murder of Lorenzo Lopresti, when the reporting says that charge applied to Rizzuto plus six others.
- It says they were charged with conspiracy to murder "eight other men," but the report says the conspiracy count involved Lopresti and seven other people.
In short, the article collapses multiple sets of charges into one and misstates the number of alleged conspiracy targets.
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- Police arrest Leonardo Rizzuto in major operation targeting Montreal Mafia
They arrested 11 men... Rizzuto and six other men have been charged in the 2011 killing of Lorenzo Lopresti... The seven men... have also been charged with conspiring to murder Lopresti and seven other people.
On November 23, 2025, Rizzuto was the target of an attack in the courtyard of the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre in Montreal, but was uninjured.
The reported prison shooting was on November 22, 2025, not November 23, and news reports described multiple alleged Rizzuto-clan inmates as possible targets rather than only Leonardo Rizzuto.
Full reasoning
Reporting on the incident places it on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
- CityNews reported on November 25, 2025 that members of the alleged Rizzuto organized crime family were targeted by gunfire near the detention centre "on Saturday".
- A same-day TVA Nouvelles report dated Saturday, November 22, 2025 described the police deployment around the prison after possible gunshots were heard and said several Italian organized-crime members were in the yard, including Leonardo Rizzuto.
That means the article’s date of November 23, 2025 is off by one day. The reporting also framed the event as an alleged attack on multiple inmates linked to the Rizzuto clan, not solely on Rizzuto personally.
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- Montreal Rizzuto clan alleged targets of shooting outside jail
following a shooting that reportedly targeted members of the alleged Rizzuto crime family Saturday outside Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre... Members of the alleged Rizzuto organized crime family were reportedly targeted by gunfire near the outdoor courtyard at the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre on Saturday.
- Possibles coups de feu: important déploiement policier autour de la prison Rivière-des-Prairies
Fort déploiement policier autour de la prison Rivière-des-Prairies à Montréal le samedi 22 novembre 2025... Les détonations ont été entendues alors que des membres du crime organisé italien se trouvaient dans la cour... Parmi eux figuraient l'influent Léonardo Rizzuto.