BIKER NEWS: Hells Angels wanted to kill Pierre Péladeau, former biker says

BN -- Journal de Montréal and Québécor founder Pierre Péladeau was apparently a target of the Hells Angels — according to a former member of the gang's Sherbrooke chapter who turned police informant.

Sylvain Boulanger told La Presse that at a biker party in Sorel, he learned that some of his colleagues were thinking of assassinating the newspaper baron because they found the Journal de Montréal too critical of the gang.

He was also told that legendary biker boss Maurice "Mom" Boucher was to carry out the assassination himself that night. It never happened.

Boulanger, who has been working with the police since 2006, is said to provided them with critical information that led to the Operation SharQc raids in 2009.

Péladeau — the father of current Parti Québécois leader Pierre Karl Péladeau — died on Dec. 24, 1997.

While the apparent plot against Péladeau never materialized, the paper's crime reporter, Michel Auger, was shot six times in its east-end parking lot on Sept. 13, 2000.

He survived, and went back to work months later.

No one was ever charged in that shooting.

This article was first published on 10/26/2015 10:35:00 AM

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