Germano Tomassetti

And I kind of already knew what it was, but I.

when i met this guy this this was the first time that i met like at the time i didn't know this but he's like a real mafioso you know what i mean we have we have we have wise guys in my city but this was like someone from quebec or from ontario they're a little bit different winnipeg is a small city it's quiet you don't have loud guys like that you know and just his presence

he was on the run so i found out later probably five years later six years later through contacts that i made later on that he wanted to make it appear to the authorities that he left from the east coast on a boat okay so they basically set it up because when they did that sweep he was one of the people that they were after but they never caught him so

He made it appear as if he went back to Italy or something like he leaves from like Halifax, Nova Scotia or whatever.

And he and he's on.

They had a ticket with his name on it and everything like that made it look like he he left.

So they don't think of him anymore.

So then he goes, I don't know why he didn't go to Ontario.

Probably because that there was heat there too.

Winnipeg.

I also learned this later on was a place that a lot of Canadian gangsters were hiding out.

Not, not specifically Winnipeg, but my province, like my state.

of manitoba it's actually got a long history of people hiding out there from other parts of canada and i guess because it's central and because it's quiet and it's kind of away from the coast and the real strong arm of the rcmp and everybody else so that that's the reason why and keep in mind like a lot of these old school guys i'm talking about the 60 year old 65 year old italians and stuff they're like really

When it comes to like hiding and stuff like that, some of these guys like hide out in caves and like underground bunkers and like they'll live in the mountains with like with nothing.

You know what I mean?

So I don't think this was a big deal for him to stay at the shelter and add on to the fact that probably a lot of people saw him talking to himself in Sicilian and stuff like that.

They probably thought he was a nut too.

You know what I mean?

So at the shelter, it's like he was covered there.

Anyways, this, this, this guy, I ended up contacting him back and I basically say, like, you know, once I made my mind up, I call him from a pay phone and I say, is this what I think it is?