Monica Proietti

Monica Proietti , born with Montreal on February 25th, 1940 and deceased in the same city on September 19th, 1967, better known under the name of “Monica the grapeshot”, was robber of banks and popular hero. According to German Georges-Hébert, author of a biographical novel published in 1997, it changed its name into “Sparvieri”, following the insistence of the uncle Antonio who held so that the name of Proietti was not dirtied by the activities of the niece.

The members of its gang included Gerald Lelièvre and his Robert brother which made the cuff in 1984 when it was killed by the detonation of a bomb in an apartment in the north of the boulevard of Maisonneuve between the streets Guy and Saint-Mathieu in the downtown area of Montreal, in company of three other individuals. Suspicions weighed on the victims in the murder of Frank Peter “Dunie” Ryan, the chief of the “gang of the west”.

Monica Proietti and its comparses made irruption during its career in more than twenty banks, mainly of the popular Caisses, where they concealed beyond 100 000 $ with the point of rifle. September 19th, 1967, she died by balls following a police continuation at high-speed in the streets of Montreal-North on board a Camaro. This last flight was to be used to him to be withdrawn in Florida where it would have carried out a calmer life with her children.

In 1968, during the few months following the death of Monica Proietti, Michel Conte wrote with Robert Gauthier a Musical comedy based on the life of the criminal one. See '' Monica the grapeshot '', the musical comedy.

A film left in 2004 carrying the title '' Monica the grapeshot was drawn from the book Souvenirs of Monica of Georges-Hébert Germain published in 1997. Of par with the exit of film, the prose of Germain was published again while carrying this time the title of cinematographic work, the publicity of the one reinforcing that of the other.

An article of Janet Bagnall in the Montreal Gazette mentions Richard Blass, gangster celebrates dead by balls in 1975, under lover of Monica and still that its guard would have been Roger Provençal, devoted to the drug traffic. This article is the report of an interview with the Germain novelist about the Souvenirs of Monica and their second publication in 2004 pennies the title of Monica the grapeshot . Michel Lamarche reports, in a contemporary article of died of Monica the grapeshot, that “ its “kick”, it was to walk in the district with a revolver in its bra. ” of an article of the English wikipedia on Monica Proietti

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Synonyms of Monica Proietti

Monica Proietti thus was known, named by the media, or adopted the nicknames of “ Machine-gun Molly ”, “Mrs. Anthony Smith”, “Molly the grapeshot”, “Molly the machine-gun”, “Monica the grapeshot”, “Monique Smith”, “Monique Tessier” and this latest to date, “Monique” or “Monica Sparvieri”, invented by a novelist.

By questioning the data bank of the Cemetery Our-Lady-of-Snows with relevant information, one obtains that the skin of a Monique Proietti, joint of Anthony Smith was put out of ground on October 23rd, 1967 in the family square of Proietti, concession TR 0535 of the cemetery.

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