Hitman offered $71,000 for Canadian reporter's assassination

Daniel Renaud was targeted while covering hitman Frédérick Silva's trial in 2021, La Presse reports.

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Convicted killer Frédérick Silva confessed to La Presse that he had offered the contract to anyone willing to carry out the hit on Daniel Renaud, who was covering his trial for three murders and an attempted murder in 2021.

Silva was convicted in 2022 and became a police informant.

Quebec Premier François Legault condemned the plot. "It makes no sense that in Quebec – we are not in a movie – there is a contract placed on the head of a journalist because he does his job," he said.

"This is not the Quebec we want," he said, adding that the province's police must continue to target organised crime.

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