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In an extraordinary joint operation involving more than 100 members of Quebec police organizations, four people described by police as “members of Montreal’s Italian Mafia” were arrested Wednesday morning.

The four — three men and one woman — are expected to be arraigned Thursday on multiple charges related to four killings that took place in 2016, including those of Rocco Sollecito and Lorenzo Giordano, who both have links to the Rizzuto crime family.

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“There is an assumption that these organized crime murders generally can’t be solved,” said Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Chief Inspector Guy Lapointe. “For us, this sends a really clear message to organized crime members that these murders can’t just be committed without fear of being arrested.”

Lapointe added that police believe the killing of Salvatore Scoppa, a Mafia leader who was shot dead in May of this year in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Laval, was probably committed to avenge the 2016 murders of Sollecito and Giordano.