Francis Alex Degioanni: Murdered in Thailand

This is terrible. What is Thailand turning into? We thought this kind of thing doesn’t happen there because its much more peaceful than it’s neighboring countries but we are apparently mistaken.

A Canadian property developer died Thursday after being riddled with bullets in his car outside his condominium in Phuket, Thailand.

Francis Alex Degioanni, 34, appeared to have been the victim of a planned hit, freelance reporter Andrew Drummond, speaking from Bangkok, told CBC News.

“He drove out of the condo which he owned on Patong Beach on the island of Phuket and was stopped by two gunmen who shot at his body eight times. Police found wounds to his head, chest, arms. He died before reaching hospital,” Drummond said.

Degioanni’s family in Quebec said he called home last month to say he had been poisoned and that he blamed a business partner in Thailand.

His girlfriend, Nanthawadee Phenjaroenwatthana, said they were preparing to celebrate his birthday on Thursday when he received a phone call and said he had to go out, the English-language Phuket Gazette reported.

She said that when he got into his car, two men pulled up on a motorbike, opened fire and then fled, the newspaper said on its website.

Police were looking into whether the attack was related to a business dispute or some other motive, such as romantic jealousy, it said.

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