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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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Ninety-nine per cent of people riding motorcycles and the clubs they belong to are law-abiding, according to an oft-cited quote by the American Motorcyclist Association. It's only one per cent that are hard-partying, non-mainstream people, the organization said in the 1960s.
The description gave birth to the moniker "one percenter," with some bikers donning patches proclaiming their "1%" status.
Despite the large law-abiding portion of the biker community, outlaw gangs do exist across the country.
According to police, biker gangs share several characteristics:
They show off their colours in public. Biker gangs use force and violence to survive and grow. Intimidation, arms and explosives are their weapons of choice. The organizations have a hierarchical structure. Committing crimes is left to new recruits while those higher up reap the rewards. The hierarchical structure allows the leaders to operate with impunity while flaunting their image of power to attract recruits and draw them into crime. It is difficult for law-enforcement agencies to infiltrate these organizations because becoming a member involves committing crimes. North American clubs also tend to require their members to own American-made bikes, often Harley-Davidsons. The largest outlaw motorcycle gang in Canada is the infamous Hells Angels, though the organization denies it's anything more than a motorcycle club.
Founded in 1948 in California, the Hells Angels has grown over the decades to more than 2,000 members across the U.S. and 26 other countries, the U.S. National Gang Intelligence Center says.
In Canada, the Angels are believed to have 460 full-fledged members and 34 chapters, according to 2009 estimates by the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.
Turf war
The largest and most-feared chapter of the Hells Angels was formed in Montreal. It opened in Quebec in 1977 when a biker gang called the Popeyes joined the Angels.
After the Rock Machine emerged in 1986 and quickly became the biggest rival of the Hells Angels, a turf war between the two erupted in the late 1990s. Over the years it claimed more than 150 lives, including two prison guards and 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers, who died when a car bomb exploded outside a biker hangout.
His death and the outrage that followed prompted Bill C-95, legislation passed in 1997 that stiffened penalties for convicted offenders who are shown to be members of established criminal organizations.
In early 2009, Gérald Gallant, who confessed to contract killing during the bloody biker wars, helped police arrest 11 people who allegedly ordered or carried out killings during the course of the turf battle. He also pleaded guilty to slaying 27 people over three decades, making him one of Canada's most prolific killers.
Here's a brief look at the major biker organizations that have operated in Canada.
Hells Angels
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada describes the Hells Angels as the largest "outlaw motorcycle gang" in the country, with active chapters concentrated mostly in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
In its 2004 report, CISC said the Angels derives "significant financial income" from criminal activities such as prostitution, fraud and extortion but primarily relied on drug trafficking for income.
The gang moved into Ontario in 2000. Before that, its only presence in the province was with a chapter of the Nomads, the club's elite branch. The Nomads doesn't tie itself to geographical locations and doesn't have formal clubhouses, like other chapters.
Within a year, the Angels had absorbed members of the Para Dice Riders, Satan's Choice and Last Chance, giving them at least 100 members in the Toronto area — the highest concentration of Hells Angels in the world.
In mid-April 2009, police targeted more than 150 people linked with the Hells Angels in early-morning raids mostly in Quebec, but also in New Brunswick, France and the Dominican Republic. They also seized four suspected Hells Angels bunkers.
Bandidos
It's considered world's second-most powerful criminal biker gang, with more than 2,000 members in 14 countries, according to NGIC's 2009 report, which describes the Bandidos as a "growing criminal threat."
The Bandidos was founded in the 1960s in Texas. The club's old guard was said to be against its absorption of the Rock Machine's Ontario branches for fear of igniting the same kind of war with the Hells Angels that gripped Quebec for much of the 1990s and left at least 150 people dead.
In April 2006, eight people — all Bandidos members or associates — were found dead in a farmer's field near the small town of Shedden, Ont., about 30 kilometres southwest of London. Police said the killings virtually wiped out the Toronto chapter of the Bandidos.
Outlaws
First established in the United States in 1935, the gang came to Canada in 1977 when several chapters of Satan's Choice in Montreal changed allegiance and set up shop as the Outlaws Motorcycle Club of Canada. The group is known to detest members of the Hells Angels.
Rock Machine
Second only to Hells Angels in Quebec. A long-running turf war with the Angels left more than 150 people dead as the two fought over the lucrative trade in illegal drugs. The war also led to the passage of anti-gang legislation by the federal government.
As the Hells Angels expanded into Ontario, so did the Rock Machine. The organization established three chapters. In 2001, it aligned itself with the Bandidos.
Satan's Choice
Once one of Ontario's strongest motorcycle gangs, Satan's Choice became part of the Hells Angels' 2000-2001 expansion into Ontario. Satan's Choice had branches in Keswick, Kitchener, Oshawa, Sudbury, Simcoe County, Thunder Bay and Toronto — but nothing outside the province.
Para Dice Riders
Another group that was once among Ontario's strongest biker gangs. Its membership was limited to the Toronto area. The group was absorbed by the Hells Angels in 2001, when the Angels moved into Ontario.
Last Chance
Another small Ontario-based biker gang that agreed to switch over to the Hells Angels when the world's most power biker gang moved into the province.
Lobos
Originally concentrated in the Windsor, Ont., area, the Lobos motorcycle gang decided to take up the Hells Angels on its offer of merger in 2001.
Loners
The Loners Motorcycle Club was founded in Ontario in 1979 with a handful of chapters, including a now-defunct one in southwestern Ontario that was headed by Wayne Kellestine. As part of its Ontario expansion drive, the Hells Angels tried to persuade the St. Thomas Loners chapter to join the Angels. Kellestine — who was injured in an assassination attempt in 1999 — resisted.
The club has expanded to the United States and Europe, but in Ontario, its highest profile in recent years was a legal fight by a Toronto chapter to keep its mascot on its property north of the city, in 2001. The neutered, declawed lion named Woody was moved to an animal sanctuary.
Vagabonds
Another Ontario-based motorcycle gang that was more or less absorbed by the Hells Angels when it expanded into Ontario in 2000-2001.
The Red Devils
Said to be the oldest motorcycle gang in Canada, the group is made up of a couple of dozen members concentrated in the Hamilton, Ont., are Timeline of the Bandidos massacre Massive police raids target Quebec, N.B. Hells Angels Hit man turned informant pleads guilty to 27 murders, 12 attempted killings Hit man helps police make 10 arrests in dozens of biker war cold cases
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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The Justice of Quebex really want to stop the Hells. Probablly because they are stronger than they ever been. With all those arrests, do y'all think it could shift the power of organized crime in the province of quebec in the futur? Like it did to the montreal mob?
I think it will weaken them, but they will still be on top. The Hells were weaken once before when they had their war with the Rock Machine coupled with some arrests. They got all their power back and got even stronger because of the mafia internal war. They also seemed to have changed strategy by creating several support MC gangs like the head hunters, devils ghost and more.
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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I think the Hells angels from Quebec, change the way they do buisness. The new hells are more like buisness men. They wear suits and think of money before violence. They are different than those from de 80s-90s. Its was Mom Boucher that transformed the Hells in Quebec. He didn't want any members taking drugs and wanted more of the clean look and business like.. Members taking drugs was one of the main reason they got rid of the Laval chapter. He had 5 members of the Laval Hells Angels slaughtered. Another was killed weeks later. Members taking drugs can't be trusted.
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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Well the drug use change before Mom Boucher. It change after the massacre of the Laval chapter, in 1985. Mom boucher became an Angel in 1986, so i doubt he already had this power. Also, the new generation of Angels are really different from those of the 90s. Guys in the Hells Angels that are in the 30s-40s now didn’t grew up in the same environnement, than those that are Now in their 50s or 60s. Montreal has change alot. Hochelagua maisonneuve is not the same. Also, many of those guys don’t come from a poor background. Just that change the Hells Angels. I’m sure that theirs more members in the hells now, that finished high school, and have a better education. I stand corrected I had my dates wrong. Yves Lavigne in the book "Hells Angels at War" has Maurice (Mom) Boucher joining the Hells on May, 1987 & Wikipedia has him joining in 1986
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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Whenever I think of Canada bikers I always think of the Bandidos Toronto Chapter and how eight of them got massacred by their own....all for nothing.
I also learned something new. Looking at a map of Canada I realized Montreal is on the eastern side of Canada, for years I got Vancouver and Montreal mixed up. Any OC in Vancouver?
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/18/prive-de-ses-patches-presque-neuvesA new member of the Hells Angels of Montreal has just suffered the affront of being confiscated his "patches" almost new by the police during a drug investigation. Jean-Richard Larivière, nicknamed "Race", received his Hells jacket in March 2017 after being promoted to a member in good standing of the Montreal chapter. Last month, the National Organized Crime Squad (ENRCO) seized the "patches" - also called "colors" - of the 50-year-old rider while searching a warehouse on the North Shore. Strict rules In the Hells, getting the "colors" from the police is seen as an insult. "The Hells Angels' patch is the cornerstone of the organization," Sgt. Alain Belleau, an SQ expert on criminal bikers, told the Charbonneau commission. This is also a source of boredom for the private biker of his iconic jacket. First, the club's quasi-military bylaws stipulate that all members "are obliged to have their jackets," said Sergeant Belleau during the testimony in 2013. The problem is that they "do not have the right to have more than one jacket" in their possession, said this criminal intelligence specialist. "Race" Larivière will have to order another "set of patches" if he wants to participate in the gang rallies, such as the "First Run", the first motorcycle ride of the Hells, in early May.
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Re: Quebec Biker gangs
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http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...al-le-crime-serait-relie-aux-motards.phpThe murder and attempted murder in the middle of the street at supper time on Friday in the Center-Sud neighborhood of Montreal,would be linked to the bikers. The press has learned that one of the two men with gunshots, the one who survived, is Alexandre Lefebvre, 42 years old. The latter, nicknamed Tattoo, was observed during the Mastiff investigation by which the Regional Joint Squadron (MRE) and the Proceeds of Crime Division of the Sûreté du Québec dismantled a network of cocaine traffickers who operated in the east of Montreal and which belonged to the Hells Angels. According to our information, Lefebvre took over at some point during the investigation of Patrick Corbeil, head of the network, who was arrested in Operation Mastiff and who returned his jacket after the police strike in November 2015.
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