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- MONTREAL (CP) - Fears of
another round of bloody Quebec biker-gang violence have been raised after
the body of a man linked to the Rock Machine biker gang was found in a
campground, just hours after a rival Hells Angels associate was gunned
down in a city restaurant.
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- "We're obviously going to examine the murders to
see if they're linked," Pierre Robichaud, a provincial police spokesman,
said Saturday.
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- "But we can't establish a link yet because we have
no suspect."
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- Late Friday night, police found Martin Bourget, 35, shot
dead near a picnic table in a campground in Granby, east of Montreal.
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- Witnesses had reported seeing a man running through the
park being chased by a gunman.
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- A discarded machine gun and burned Jeep were also found
near the scene - a typical trademark of biker gangs seeking to destroy
evidence after a hit.
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- Bourget was associated with the Rock Machine, a biker
gang involved in a bloody war against the Hells Angels over control of
Quebec's drug trade, police said.
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- "Whether (Bourget) was a close associate or not,
we don't know yet," said police spokeswoman Isabelle Gendron.
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- "We don't have many details about him right now
but we know he was linked to the gang."
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- Earlier Friday, two masked men calmly entered a Montreal
restaurant and gunned down Robert (Bob) Savard, 49, a loan shark and close
friend of Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher.
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- Seriously injured under the hail of gunfire was Savard's
companion, Normand Descoteaux. A waitress was also hit in the leg by a
stray bullet.
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- Criminal-gang experts immediately predicted more bloodshed
would follow.
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- "There will be more violence," RCMP Staff Sgt.
Jean-Pierre Levesque said after Savard's murder. "There's no doubt."
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- Montreal police Cmdr. Andre Bouchard agreed there would
be more deaths, predicting the violence would only stop "when one
team has all the marbles."
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- Bouchard also decried the increasing boldness of the
latest killings, both in unlikely settings.
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- The recurring feud has heated up in recent months, with
several shootings, prison riots and disappearances.
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- At least four of Boucher's close associates have disappeared
or been killed in the past three months, including his right-hand man,
Normand (Biff) Hamel, who was shot dead April 17 in a suburban parking
lot.
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- Several bystanders have also been injured or killed in
the crossfire, most notably an 11-year-old boy who was struck down by shrapnel
when a car bomb exploded in a residential Montreal neighbourhood in 1995.
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- The biker war has killed about 140 people in Quebec since
1994, and police blame organized crime for half of the 30 murders committed
in Montreal this year.
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- The Rock Machine has also opened two new chapters in
Ontario, Levesque said. © The Canadian Press, 2000
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