https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...-boulanger-exigeait-10-millions--a-la-sqNo "patches" of Hells for a street gang
Under their rules, the Quebec Hells Angels refused to set a global precedent when several black members of the Montreal street gang Syndicate unsuccessfully asked to join the biker gang.
This is what the informer Sylvain Boulanger reported to the investigators of the Sûreté du Québec in statements made in 2007 and of which Le Journal obtained a copy.
In 2004, Hells Angel Normand "Casper" Ouimet reportedly stated during a "meeting" at the Hells bunker of the Sherbrooke chapter that the Syndicate "wanted to have patches of members in good standing of the motorcycle club.
"He had decided they could not have patches," said Boulanger, who was then a member of the club's winged winged club in Sherbrooke.
Ouimet controlled part of the drug trade in Montreal and was "in charge" of the Syndicate, according to Boulanger. This statement was corroborated by the Montreal police during the Axis anti-drug operation in 2009.
"Pick up street gangs"
The Hells Angels rules stipulate that no Black can become a member in good standing of the club.
In 1998, Montreal gang leader Gregory Woolley became the first official Black in the Hells when their former leader, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, promoted him to the Rockers, the deceased club-school. Nomads elite chapter, in full war against Rock Machine.
Under Boucher's recommendation, Woolley then founded the Syndicate, a gang of "blue" allegiance.
"Mom picked up Gregory in the hope that he would bring the other street gangs (to work) with the Rockers, who were the pushers of the Nomads," Boulanger reported.
When asked about the chances of seeing a black member of the Hells, Boulanger replied: "I do not think so".
He explained that such a decision should be taken at an international meeting ("World meeting") of the Hells and that "the Americans do not want" because there is "a lot of racism in the United States."
Gregory Woolley was nevertheless considered to be one of the main leaders of organized crime when he was arrested last November for gangsterism and conspiracy to murder.
