The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club (RMMC) or Rock Machine is an international outlaw motorcycle club founded in Montreal,Quebec,Canada in 1986. It has eighteen Canadian chapters spread across seven provinces. It also has nine chapters in the United States and eleven chapters in Australia,with chapters also located in 24 other countries worldwide. It was formed in 1986,by Salvatore Cazzetta and his brother Giovanni Cazzetta. The Rock Machine competed with the Hells Angels for control of the street-level narcotics trade in Quebec. The Quebec Biker War saw the Rock Machine form an alliance with a number of other organizations to face the Hells Angels. The conflict occurred between 1994 and 2002 and resulted in over 160 deaths and over 300 injured. An additional 100+ have been imprisoned.
Maurice Boucher was a Canadian gangster,convicted murderer,reputed drug trafficker,and outlaw biker—once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Boucher led Montreal's Hells Angels against the rival Rock Machine biker gang during the Quebec Biker War of 1994 through 2002 in Quebec,Canada. In 2002,Boucher was convicted on two counts of first degree murder for ordering the murders of two Quebec prison officers in an effort to destabilize the Quebec Justice system.
The Quebec Biker War was a turf war in Montreal,Quebec,Canada,lasting from 1994 to 2002,between the Quebec branch of the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. The war left 162 people dead,including civilians. There were also 84 bombings and 130 cases of arson. In March 2002,American journalist Julian Rubinstein wrote about the biker war:"Considering how little attention the story has attracted outside Canada,the toll is staggering:162 dead,scores wounded. The victims include an 11-year-old boy killed by shrapnel from one of the more than 80 bombs bikers planted around the province. Even the New York Mafia in its heyday never produced such carnage,or so terrorized civilians."
The Lennoxville massacre,or Lennoxville purge,was a mass murder which took place at the Hells Angels clubhouse in Sherbrooke,Quebec,Canada,on March 24,1985. Five members of the Hells Angels North Chapter,were shot dead. The North Chapter was led by 2 of its original and most influential members Laurent "L'Anglais" Viau and Yves "Apache" Trudeau. The Lennoxville Massacre divided rival outlaw motorcycle gangs in Quebec,leading to the formation of the Rock Machine club in 1986,a rival to the Angels in the 1990s. The name "Lennoxville massacre" is a misnomer since the killings took place in Sherbrooke. The misconception that the killings took place in Lennoxville arose from the fact the victims had stayed and partied at a motel in Lennoxville before they went to the Sherbrooke clubhouse.
Gérald Gallant is a Canadian contract killer who admitted to committing 28 murders and 12 attempted murders between 1978 and 2003. Gallant typically killed in public by gunshots to the head,neck or chest,which became his trademark. His victims were mostly members of Quebec-based criminal gangs. Gallant was reportedly one of Canada's most prolific known killers.
Wolodumir "Walter" Stadnick,also known as "Nurget",is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who was the third national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. Stadnick is generally credited with turning the Hells Angels into the dominant outlaw biker club in Canada. The journalists Michel Auger and Peter Edwards wrote that much about Stadnick is mysterious,ranging from what is the meaning of his sobriquet "Nurget",to how a unilingual Anglo Canadian from Hamilton became the leader of the then largely French-Canadian Hells Angels. In 2004,the journalist Tu Thanh Ha wrote that Stadnick is "a secretive man little known to the public",but "he is one of Canada's most pivotal organized-crime figures."
Salvatore "Sal" Cazzetta,also known as "La Barbe",is a Canadian former outlaw biker and gangster who founded the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club and later joined the Hells Angels following the Quebec Biker War. He was also a longtime associate of the Rizzuto crime family of Montreal.
The 42nd National Assembly of Quebec consists of those elected in the October 1,2018,general election. As a result,François Legault became Premier on October 18.
Gregory Woolley was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. Woolley was the protégéand bodyguard of Maurice Boucher,a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine,in Quebec,from 1994 to 2002. Woolley was known in Montreal as the "parrain des gangs de rue".
Gerald Matticks is a Canadian gangster and the long-time leader of the West End Gang of Montreal.
Michel "Sky" Langlois is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the second national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. A founding member of the Popeyes biker gang,which amalgamated with the Hells Angels in 1977,Langlois was convicted as an accessory to murder in the club's internal Lennoxville massacre of 1985,and later of conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the 1994–2002 Quebec Biker War.
Giovanni "Johnny" Cazzetta is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who,along with his brother Salvatore Cazzetta,was a co-founder of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club in Montreal. He was the club's second in command,and also had considerable connections with Quebec's Mafia figures.
Frédéric Faucher is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as national president of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club during the Quebec Biker War (1994-2002). He played a significant role in the conflict and was responsible for facilitating the merger between the Rock Machine and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club,which took place on December 1,2001.
Paul Porter is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster. A founding member of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club,Porter played a major role in the Quebec Biker War (1994–2002). During this period,he expanded the club into Ontario,becoming the president of the Rock Machine's Kingston chapter. Disillusioned with the Rock Machine's decision to merge with the Bandidos,Porter led a mass defection to the Hells Angels in late 2000.
AndréBouchard is a retired police officer with the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal,best known for his role in the Quebec Biker War.
Louis Roy,better known as "Mélou",was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster,said to have been the richest Hells Angel in Quebec.
Normand Hamel,better known as "Biff",was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster. A senior member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Montreal,Hamel was the right-hand man of Hells Angels leader Maurice "Mom" Boucher and became one of Quebec's top drug traffickers before he was shot dead in 2000. A member of the rival Rock Machine gang,Tony Duguay,was convicted of Hamel's murder in 2006 but was acquitted of the killing in 2016 after a witness in the case admitted that he lied while on the witness stand.
Donald Stockford is a Canadian outlaw biker,gangster and stuntman.
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club,an international outlaw biker gang,has been involved in multiple crimes,alleged crimes,and violent incidents in Canada. The Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) has designated the Hells Angels an outlaw motorcycle gang. Hells Angels MC have been linked with drug trafficking and production,as well as many violent crimes including murder,in Canada.
The Rockers Motor Club,often abbreviated as the Rockers MC,was a Canadian outlaw biker gang and support club for the larger Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
