Marcel Demers

On 6 December 2000, Demers along with national president, Frédéric Faucher were arrested on multiple charges and for ordering a bombing that caused major damage to a Hells Angels bunker and the surrounding neighborhood located in Saint-Nicolas, Quebec. Alain Brunette would he promoted to national president, Jean-Claude Belanger would replace Brunette as president of the Quebec City chapter. Robert Léger would head the Beauport chapter. Police reported that Demers arrest was due to is involvement in, what authorities dubbed a "narcotics empire", stating he along with Faucher had been responsible for the bombing of the bunker and several other incidents between 1994 and 2000. According to authorities, the Rock Machine chapters in Quebec under Demers and Faucher were responsible for distributed two kilograms of cocaine a month and generated almost $5 million in profits annually. He pled guilty to 17 charges in relation to the trafficking of narcotics and was sentenced to 9 years in prison on 11 May 2001. An additional thirteen bikers also received charges, including Simon Bédard, Gérald Gagnon, Michel "Sky" Langlois, Mario Dallaire, Guy Descarreaux and Serge Richard, would also receive charges. Demers was released in the mid-2000s.^[8]

On March 26, 2009, Demers would be caught up in Operation Player which saw the arrest of eleven people after hitman Gerald Gallant became a Crown informant. Gallant had been employed by the Dark Circle and had also been employed to do jobs by the Rock Machine. During the conflict with the Hells Angels, he had been hired by Demers several times, and other club leaders Fred Faucher and Giovanni Cazzetta had also hired him several times between the years of 1994 and 2002. Gallant had attempted to flee to Geneva, Switzerland but was eventually arrested on credit card fraud and mistaken identity, testifying and giving more than fifty hours of statements. This enabled the authorities to apprehend Demers and ten other sponsors or accomplices of his 28 murders in 2009. It was revealed that Demers had left his life of crime behind and for several years he had held a job at a sprinkler company, he had also made attempts to reconcile with his family, forming a bond with his son that he did not have during his criminal days. Information revealed by Gérald Gallant led the courts to declare that Marcel Demers was "accused of committing or sanctioning 12 murders and 5 attempted murders perpetrated between 1996 and 2000". In January 2013, Demers avoided going to trial over the Gallant murders; he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder and he was given 11 years in prison, with his total sentence stemming from the Quebec Biker War resulting in being 20 years, seven and a half years of provisional time were subtracted.^[9]

"Today, I realize the harm I have done to the families of the victims, including the Bergeron family, as well as to my own family and to the entire population."

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• O'Connor, D'Arcy (2011). Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470676158.
• Schneider, Stephen (2009). Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470835005.

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