Английская Википедия:Gilles Mathieu

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Gilles Mathieu (born 23 August 1950), better known as "Trooper", is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the secretary to the elite Nomad chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Quebec from 1995 to his arrest in 2001.

Hells Angel

Mathieu was born into a working class family. He worked as a maritime inspector at the port of Montreal.Шаблон:Sfn In 1980, Mathieu was arrested for attempting to sell LSD to an undercover policeman.Шаблон:Sfn On 5 December 1980, he joined the Hells Angels.Шаблон:Sfn On 26 June 1981, Mathieu was convicted of conspiracy to sell LSD and sentenced to a year in prison.Шаблон:Sfn Mathieu was present at the clubhouse of the Angels' Sherbrooke chapter on the night of the Lennoxville massacre in 1985, but was acquitted.Шаблон:Sfn Mathieu was known for his "violent streak" as Paul Cherry, the crime correspondent of The Montreal Gazette described it .Шаблон:Sfn

On 25 June 1995, Mathieu was a founding member of the elite Nomad chapter of the Hells Angels.Шаблон:Sfn During the Quebec Biker War, Mathieu seemed to be always by the side of Maurice Boucher.Шаблон:Sfn When the hitman Stéphane Gagné – whose nickname was Godasse (Old Shoe) – reported to Boucher that he had killed the prison guard Diane Lavigne on 26 June 1997, Mathieu was present.Шаблон:Sfn When Boucher asked for Mathieu's opinion of the murder, he replied: "That's great, Godasse!"Шаблон:Sfn

Mathieu was considered to be one of the most important Hells Angels in Montreal and a millionaire.Шаблон:Sfn At his preliminary hearing (the Canadian equivalent to a grand jury) in 2001 relating to Operation Springtime charges, evidence presented by the Crown showed he owned a company with assets worth $2.3 million whose headquarters was an address at the West Edmonton Mall.Шаблон:Sfn Mathieu was also believed to have placed at least $1 million in a tax haven in the Cayman Islands.Шаблон:Sfn

On 15 February 2001, Mathieu was arrested at a Montreal hotel where he together with several Hells Angels were looking at photographs of the members of the Bandidos gang.Шаблон:Sfn Found in the room were several handguns and about $10,000 in cash.Шаблон:Sfn In a plea bargain with the Crown Attorney, André Vincent, Mathieu pleaded guilty to weapons charges and was sentenced to a year in prison.Шаблон:Sfn

Operation Springtime

On 28 March 2001, the police launched Operation Springtime, a crackdown against the Hells Angels.Шаблон:Sfn Mathieu, who was already in jail owing to the weapons charges, was also charged with 13 counts of first-degree murder as part of Operation Springtime.Шаблон:Sfn

At his trial in 2003, Vincent presented evidence that linked Mathieu to the 13 murders of Rock Machine members.Шаблон:Sfn The trial came to an unexpected end on 11 September 2003 when Mathieu together with the other accused all made plea bargains with Vincent.Шаблон:Sfn In exchange for the Crown dropping the 13 counts of first-degree murder charges, Mathieu pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to traffic in narcotics, and gangsterism.Шаблон:Sfn The judge sentenced Mathieu to 20 years in prison.Шаблон:Sfn

Mathieu was released on parole on 20 September 2013. The National Parole Board did not accept Mathieu's claim that he had resigned from the Hells Angels in 2009 and imposed the parole condition that he live in a half-way house. On 17 December 2014, Mathieu asked for permission to leave the half-way house, which was refused by the parole board as it established that he had over the course of 2014 visited four times a barber with known Hells Angels associations, which the parole board took as evidence that he was still loyal to the Hells Angels.

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