Carlo Calvi moved from Italy to Montreal 20 years ago after a bunch of the Pope's thugs killed his father, who was the Pope's accountant.John Paul II was busy replacing the old bureaucrats with anti-Communist Catholics known as Opus Dei, this led to some reaction from the old guard and Calvi Senior was caught in the crossfire.
Four men went on trial for tossing his father off the Blackfriar's Bridge in London.
Carlo is pretty much incommunicado lately. He lived in Outremont, and would answer his phone after one ring. He was easy to reach, listed in the phone book and everything. He speaks passionately and clearly, enunciating every syllable and explaining everything clearly but with a trace of desperation.
Nowadays he's impossible to find. News reporters, documentary producers and others of that ilk planned segments and documentaries around the assumption that he'd still be easy enough to reach to discuss the issues he was always eager to kick around.
One British company was so desperate to find him that they tried to woo me with cash in order to track him down. It was cold that day so I declined.
It's said that his mother is in an old age home so he might not be that far from her. That's just about the only clue about his whereabouts.
Presumably he's laying low during the trial. There appears to be just about zero information about this trial, it seems to have hit a snag. Too bad for Carlo, he's a nice guy and certainly deserves his father's killers to be brought to justice. He also told me that he'd like to get into politics in Europe and hiding under a rock can't be good for the old political career either.