Feast without police officers for a club-school

Antoine Lacroix

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:00

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SAINT-ZÉNON | The club supporter of the Hells Angels Brotherhood met in a hostel in Saint-Zénon yesterday and at least one member of the new club-school Demons Choice joined the party, without being annoyed by the police presence.

This is the fourth public appearance in as many weeks to take place for bikers connected with the Hells and their associated groups.

Thirty people, including many members of the Brotherhood, have taken advantage of the beautiful weather on the shores of lac Saint-Stanislas, in Lanaudière, beer in hand. Their congeners came to the dropper.

A member wearing the colours of a new club of the bodyguard of Hells based on the South Shore of Montreal, the Demons Choice, has also been seen at The auberge le Cabanon.

According to what have seen in The Newspaper in the afternoon, the police presence seemed non-existent, and no dam has been erected, contrary to what has been observed during recent gatherings of bikers.

According to the former investigator of the Sûreté du Québec Paul Laurier, if the bikers are also visible, it is that they want to be closer to the population and to be more sympathetic.

“But the patch is still used to intimidate “, he says.

Two weeks ago, no fewer than a dozen different groups, including the Hells Angels, were at the Thunder Bike Show in Sanair, Saint-Pie. Members of the Brotherhood were responsible for the security of the event.

The bikers have also been seen this summer at the Festival du cochon of Sainte-Perpétue and a kiosk in support of the Hells was held at the Expo agricole de Saint-Hyacinthe.

And last weekend, a festival planned by the Dark Souls, a club supporter of the Hells, was abruptly brought to an end after the intervention of the police.

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But if it does not seem to be any police officers near to the gathering yesterday, perhaps it is because intelligence officers had already in their hands all they needed, said Mr Laurier.

“Surely they already knew that was going to be,” says-t it.

“It doesn’t say that, because we didn’t see them, that they were not there,” he adds, noting that it may well be that agents of the SQ have conducted interceptions in the course of the road or they show up on the next day of the grouping.

The group sympathising with the Hells has five chapters active in Quebec, on the North Shore, Montreal, Quebec, in the Montérégie region and in Shawinigan.

For his part, the mayor of Saint Zeno was not aware of the rally and said Friday the Newspaper that neither the Hells Angels nor their clubs-schools were not welcome in her municipality.

The direction of the hostel, The Shed was ” no supporter of any group of bikers that either “, but rather ” partisan to walk [his] inn “, Friday.

The SQ did not want to confirm our information or make comments.

– With the collaboration of Frédérique Giguère