"The Hells have regained the desire to be displayed"

The sponsor of the anti-gang law in Canada is concerned that a Hells Angel was able to get married with much fanfare in the presence of many criminal bikers in downtown Montreal on Saturday.

"I do not find that reassuring is the least we can say," said the Journal former MP Réal Ménard, the first parliamentarian to have filed an anti-gang bill in the House of Commons in 1995 .

That year, 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers was killed in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (the riding represented by this former Bloc Québécois elected member). He was playing outside when a trafficker's Jeep exploded during the deadly war that the Hells were delivering to the Rock Machine to take over the drug market.

For Réal Ménard, the sumptuous wedding of biker Martin Robert and the daughter of a drug trafficker in the chic Windsor bar at the end of last week, right in the city center, is another proof "that the Hells Angels have found the taste to be displayed in the community and that they feel at ease ".

Alain Durand, of the South chapter of the Hells, sported a pendant with the effigy of the gang.

"Very good people ..."

"It will happen again as long as we have not put our pants," said Bloc MP Rhéal Fortin, who instigated the Trudeau government to ban the Hells from wearing jackets in public winged, last year.

" It's dangerous. We get the idea in the minds of our children that it's not that bad, crime, and that they are very good people, "added Mr. Fortin.

The Hells, who now control the Quebec drug market, have already been more discreet. First after the adoption of a first anti-gang law in 1997 and even more when the Chrétien government strengthened it in 2002.

"The Hells were afraid that wearing their patches would become illegal," the SQ told SharQc, Sylvain Boulanger. They realized that they had been scared for nothing.

"It would have been easier to have the Hells outlawed, but we were being told that it would not stand up to a court challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms," said Réal Ménard.

Criminal organization

In 2009, the Harper government investigated the possibility of automatically labeling the Hells as a "criminal organization" in court.

This would have prevented the Crown and the police from demonstrating it in court with "tedious evidence" every time a motorcyclist is accused of gangsterism, insisted Major-General Denis Mainville of the SPVM, testifying before the federal elected officials. But the idea has been dismissed.