During his journalistic research, particularly on the Montreal Mafia, Félix Séguin maintained a special relationship with then-godfather Andrew Scoppa.
“We had a professional relationship from the source to the journalist, which intervened very deeply in our respective lives,” he confided to Jean-Philippe Dion on Sunday at La vérité nature.
“When my youngest was born, my phone rang a few hours after he was born and then I heard: Hello, it's me. A few hours later he was waiting for me downstairs with a bag of very nice pajamas and gave them to me…” he said.
“It was at that moment that I realized that this professional relationship for me was becoming too personal for him,” he continued, adding that at that point Scoppa was being pursued not only by the police, but also by his enemies who were his skin wanted to have.
“When the police arrested Scoppa, they brought us into the office and said to us: 'You are crazy. You could have been killed five times,'” reveals the journalist, who admits that his job can sometimes be dangerous.
A lonely and sensitive child
Félix Séguin, who began his career as a news anchor in the Outaouais before being assigned to news reports, confessed on Sunday that he became a loner and “extremely sensitive” child after his parents' divorce.
“At some point my father decided to open an earthworm business to be used as animal feed. […] He went bankrupt and caused my mother to go bankrupt because he mortgaged the house,” he said.
“I never asked if this was the reason my parents divorced,” he said afterwards, adding that he did not stay close to his father when he left the family nest.
The journalist, who grew up in Témiscamingue and was passionate about criminology as a teenager, also remembered Christmas and hoped his father would pick him up.
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