The Hells are celebrating their 40 years with a big party

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Frederique Giguere and
Félix Séguin

Friday, December 8, 2017 05:00

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The Hells Angels will be celebrating their 40th anniversary in Quebec this weekend with a party at the sugar shack and a visit to the Bell Centre for combat martial arts.

The major feast is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the cabane à sucre Handfield, located in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, in Montérégie, according to our sources.

Over a hundred guests are expected. Canadian members, but also from outside the country, are expected. The facility can accommodate up to 350 people, according to its website.

Besides, all the hotels and motels in the vicinity of the hut had already filled a few days before the event, based on our audits.

Photo: Martin Knight

Members of the Hells from across the country will celebrate the 40 years of the quebec chapter tomorrow at the sugar shack Handfield located in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu.

Not aware

Joined yesterday on the phone, the owner of the sugar shack, we were not reminded after we have initially indicated that he was not aware of the situation.

Festivities more intimate, have taken place since the beginning of the week.

On Tuesday evening, this was 40 years ago that the Popeyes of Sorel formally became the section of the Hells of Montreal. This was the first introduction of the famous group of bikers in the country.

Photo Antoine Lacroix

Several bikers attended a rally at Sanair last summer.

To mark the occasion, twenty members were offered a dinner in one of the restaurants of the Estérel resort. The booking had been made in the name of a certain Geneviève Pagé and should be a family dinner, has confirmed the director general of the institution, stressing that he had no idea that it was the Hells.

“The next morning in a meeting, it was brought to my attention that the biker gangs were coming perhaps from dinner, they were differentiated physically from others, without to be displayed with jackets or motorbikes,” said Francis Dallaire.

The Sûreté du Québec will be present at each of the rallies this weekend as part of its offensive anti-biker.

In addition to the big party Saturday night, a few members must also go to the combat of mixed martial arts tonight at the Bell Centre for the event TKO 41.

They are back in force

After the raid police SharQc in 2009, the Hells have put a few years before reorganizing it properly. As they were made rather discrete after the operation of the SQ, the biker gangs have multiplied public appearances over the last year. They have been especially present at the end of the summer, displaying their colors, including the Thunder Bike show Saint-Pie, in the Festival cochon de Sainte-Perpétue and the Expo de Saint-Hyacinthe.

According to several sources, the Hells Angels have recovered this year, the full control over the sale of narcotic drugs in Quebec.

– With the collaboration of Eric Thibault.