It sounds like it was lifted from a movie script, but the drama that played out yesterday in a Montreal courtroom wasn’t a work of fiction. Benoit Roberge, a recently retired Montreal police detective and expert in Quebec’s criminal biker gangs, was charged with selling information to the Hells Angels, one of the groups he had apparently worked hard to bring to justice. Roberge wasn’t just an analyst – he was an active member of several of the special squads created in the wake of Quebec’s biker wars in the 1990s to combat the growing power of the gangs.
Roberge’s fate is now in the hands of the justice system. But the shock waves created by his arrest continue to be felt by that system, a system Roberge was a part of for decades. Just how destructive could those shock waves be? We asked that question to Gazette police reporter Paul Cherry who is also the author of The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels. Click on the grey icon below to hear what he had to say. And remember, you can listen to all of our podcasts at montrealgazette.com/montreal@themoment and on iTunes .
