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The Hells Angels’ Nomads chapter in Quebec was once the most feared organized crime group in the province.

Its founding members were selected from the gang’s Montreal and Trois Rivières chapters, in 1995, by Maurice (Mom) Boucher (a Hells Angel for eight years at that point) as part of a plan to wage war with anyone who opposed his goal to expand the gang’s drug-trafficking turf exponentially.

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Over the course of six years, more than 150 people were killed, including several innocent victims. At least 85 bombs were set off — including one in 1995 that killed Daniel Desrochers, an 11-year-old boy who was playing near a Jeep when it exploded — and 140 arson fires were set.

By 2000, it was clear the Nomads were winning the war as police discovered accounting files that revealed the chapter was making $5.5 million in profits, per month, off the sale of cocaine and hashish.

A written summary of a Parole Board of Canada decision made public last week concerning one of the Nomads, Gilles Mathieu, describes the group as one that “created a climate of terror within society.” The chapter was wiped out by a series of arrests in March 2001, following a police investigation dubbed Operation Printemps 2001. According to the Hells Angels’ official website, it no longer exists. Most of the chapter’s members ended up pleading guilty to charges of drug-trafficking, gangsterism and taking part in a general conspiracy to commit murder.