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MONTREAL — Thirty years ago, the Hells Angels summoned five of their members to a quiet town in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, where they were slaughtered in one of the most notorious crimes ever committed in the province.

When news emerged about what happened on March 24, 1985, inside the Angels’ bunker on a wooded hill in Lennoxville, Quebecers woke up to what the biker gang was capable of.

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As the bikers involved in the slayings were rounded up in the months that followed, it would have been easy to assume the gang was finished in Quebec. But only five ended up with life sentences for first-degree murder; about a dozen others who helped dispose of the bodies or get rid of evidence received lighter sentences.

Five members of the gang’s now defunct Laval chapter — Guy-Louis “Chop” Adam, Jean-Guy “Brutus” Geoffrion, Laurent “l’Anglais” Viau, Michel “Willie” Mayrand and Jean-Pierre Mathieu — were gunned down inside the bunker. At least two other members of the Laval chapter were supposed to be killed that day as well, but they failed to show up for the meeting. A sixth man linked to the Laval chapter, prospect Claude “Coco” Roy, was killed two weeks later.