(Quebec) A former outlaw biker was shot and killed Monday morning in Quebec. The police are currently refusing to make a link between this attack and the open war between factions of organized crime in the capital.
The police intervened at 6:34 a.m. in a quiet street in the Charlesbourg sector. It was there, in front of his residence, that they found Michel “Doune” Guérin seriously injured. The 57-year-old man was taken to hospital.
A police source told The Press that Guérin would be dead. The Quebec City Police Department (SPVQ) refuses to confirm, but specifies that major crimes investigators have been seized of the case.
“Doune” is a former Hells Angels prospect, who led the defunct Mercenaries motorcycle group. Guérin was at one time one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in the capital. He was arrested in 2005 during Operation Despot and received 12 years in prison.
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Michel Guérin
This attack against this former close friend of the Hells occurs in an explosive context in Quebec. War would be declared between bikers and street gangs for control of drug sales.
The police refuse to publicly link Monday’s attack in Charlesbourg to the outbreak of violence between organized crime factions. But sources told Quebec Journal that Guérin would have been responsible for resolving certain conflicts between the clans and even recovering the bikers’ share.
According to several police sources, a conflict rages between a member in good standing of the Hells Angels of Quebec, Mathieu Pelletier, and an independent trafficker nicknamed David “Pic” Turmel.
Turmel has reportedly refused since the pandemic to obtain cocaine from the Hells Angels, thus depriving bikers of an important source of income. Turmel, who allegedly has ties to “red” street gangs, would now buy drugs from Montreal street gangs.
Warehouses in Beauce were the target of suspicious fires in October and November. According to information from The Pressin two of these mini-warehouses there were tenants linked directly or indirectly to criminal bikers.
Michel Guérin was the owner of the Univers Fitness gym in Quebec, according to the business register. The man filed a lawsuit against the City of Quebec in 2022, accusing it of having refused to give an emergency subsidy to his gym in the middle of a pandemic. The City would have considered that subsidizing the Guérin Company would have incurred “an image risk” for the municipality, according to an article in the Quebec Journal.