MONTREAL – The rap video is interspersed with riot scenes in Montreal North and shots of Dany Villanueva and friends making the sign of the Bloods street gang – the whole punctuated by the sound of a gun being fired repeatedly.
But there’s nothing sinister or significant about Mobsterz dans mon district, made in the tense months following the August, 2008 shooting of Fredy Villanueva, his older brother told a coroner’s inquest into the shooting today.
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François Brière, the lawyer representing Quebec’s attorney general, asked that the video be shown to demonstrate that Dany Villanueva, who appears in a few scenes, was still a member of the street gang in 2008, even though he has tesitified he’d left in 2006.
Brière, like the lawyer for the Montreal police, is trying to show that Villanueva was breaking a bail condition not to be in the company of gang members when Const. Jean-Loup Lapointe stopped in a parking lot to question him.
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Villanueva said today that Lapointe never even asked him for identification before handcuffing him and wrestling him to the ground. As Villanueva’s friends and younger brother came forward in Dany’s defence, Lapointe fired five shots, killing Fredy, 18.
smontgomery@thegazette.canwest.com
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