Maurice Boucher

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the French composer, see Maurice Le Boucher .

Maurice "Mom" Boucher (* 21st June 1953 in Causapscal , Quebec , Canada) was the former president of Montreal - Charters of the Hells Angels . He is currently serving a life sentence. Boucher was the leader of the Hells Angels in the so-called " Rocker War of Québec " ( Quebec Biker War , Guerre des motards ) against the Rock Machine Club , which lasted from 1994 to 2002. In 2002 Boucher was sentenced to three times life imprisonment for ordering the murder of two prison guards in Quebec City.

Childhood and youth

Maurice Boucher was born in Causapscal, Québec. When he was two years old, his family moved to Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, where Boucher grew up in poverty. Boucher dropped out of school in 9th grade and began a criminal career in the Montreal drug scene. He was arrested in 1974 for multiple break-ins and spent six months in a reformatory. He was arrested again in November 1975 and sentenced to 40 months in prison for armed robbery.

1982 was a member of Boucher White Supremacy - Motorcycle Gang who called himself "SS", an allusion to the Schutzstaffel of the NSDAP . The club was located in Pointe-aux-Trembles on the Île de Montréal . A friend of mine was Salvatore Cazzetta . Both established themselves as leaders of the group and were to join the Hells Angels when they tried to gain a foothold in Canada.

In 1985 there was a dispute between two Hells Angels charters in Canada. The charter Lennoxville accused the Laval charter of embezzling drug- related income and thus defrauding another Nova Scotia charter of Canadian dollars 96,000 . The Laval charter was invited to Lennoxville and was sneakily murdered. The bodies were not found by recreational divers until two months later in the St. Lawrence River . The event was later known as the " Lennoxville Massacre " and is considered to be one of the worst crimes ever committed in Canada. Cazzetta, disgusted by the devious attack on his own " brothers " refused to run the Hells Angels together with Boucher and founded his own motorcycle club with his brother Giovanni in 1986 and named it Rock Machine .

Hells Angels

In late 1987, after another 40-month prison sentence, this time for sexual assault, Boucher joined the Hells Angels in Montreal and quickly rose in the rankings. In the early 1990s he was the most powerful figure in Canada's rocker scene. His criminal activities included drug smuggling and credit fraud.

In 1994, his former friend Salvatore Cazzetta was arrested with 200 kilograms of cocaine . Rock Machine was therefore leaderless for a while. Boucher, now president of the Montreal charter of the Hells Angels, decided to take advantage of the temporary weakening and take action against Rock Machine and other groups involved in the Montreal drug dealings. In the long term, he wanted to establish the Hells Angels as a monopoly on the drug market in Montreal and later in all of Québec.

Boucher began to organize so-called puppet clubs to weaken Rock Machine. These attacked bars and drug dealers controlled by Rock Machine. But Rock Machine resisted. On July 14, 1994, two members of the Hells Angels' largest puppet club shot dead an ally of Rock Machine. This incident sparked a rocker war in Québec that would last eight years. A total of around 150 people are said to have been killed during this time.

The first innocent man was killed in August: a remote-controlled car bomb killed 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers. A month later, a member of the Hells Angels was shot dead. Nine bombs were detonated in retaliation during his funeral in Québec.

In 1995, Boucher formed a nomad charter that became one of the most powerful clubs in Québec because it was not tied to a specific location and consisted of the most notorious members of the Angels.

arrest

In 1997, during the rocker war, Boucher ordered the murder of two prison guards, Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau. The two victims were chosen at random to unsettle law enforcement agencies. This should prevent deals with the public prosecutor's office. In 1998 a jury acquitted him. In 2000 the case was submitted for review and the acquittal was overturned. Boucher was arrested again and, with the help of a police informant, was sentenced in May 2002. The lead witness Stéphane "Godasse" Gagné was involved in both murders and testified that Boucher ordered the murders. The jury conferred for eleven days and convicted Boucher of double and attempted murder. Boucher received a life sentence that could only be suspended after 25 years. He is currently in a maximum security prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines , north of Montreal.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Me and my pal Mom Boucher. ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Gazette. July 30, 2008. 
2. ^ Maurice Boucher reportedly stabbed in prison. on: montreal.ctvnews.ca , October 24, 2010.
3. ↑ Marc Pigeon: Former biker says sorry, is denied parole. Toronto Sun , accessed February 13, 2011 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Paul Cherry: The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels . Ecw Press ,, 2005, ISBN 1-55022-638-X .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} From Details: Highway to Hell. ( Memento of the original of July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: julianrubinstein.com , March 2002. 
6. ↑ Jerry Langton: Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick in the Canadian Hells Angels . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-470-83710-1 .
7. ↑ McGill Tribune, Bikers, Bill C-95, Drugs and Mom ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Edward Winterhalder , Wil De Clercq: The Assimilation: Bikers United Against The Hells Angels . ECW Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-55022-824-3 .
9. ↑ Edward Winterhalder: Out In Bad Standings; Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club . Blockhead City Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9771747-0-0 .
10. ^ Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary April to June 2002
11. ↑ Mom Boucher Guilty of Murder. on: CBC News. May 6, 2002.
12. ↑ Inside the Hells Angels. ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Montreal Gazette. January 14, 2006.