Rockers Motor Club
Canadian outlaw biker gang / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[21]
Founded | March 26, 1992[1] |
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Founder | Maurice Boucher[2] |
Founding location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Years active | 1992–2001[3] |
Territory | Practically exclusive to Quebec with some reported activity in North British Columbia[4] |
Ethnicity | Mostly Quebeckers and Francophone Canadians |
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Activities | Drug trafficking, assault, intimidation, protection and murder |
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Lasting from 1992 until 2001, the group played a significant role in the ill-famed Quebec Biker War.[22] Acting not only as a recruitment tool to test the competence of bikers wanting to become Hells Angels, the Rockers Motor Club was also utilized to carry out numerous unlawful objectives of the Angels which included intimidation, violent assaults, and assassinations of their rivals in an effort to help the ladder obtain total control over the nation's illegal drug trade.[21][23]
Prior to the formation of Angels-affiliated Rockers Motor Club in the early 1990s, another biker gang had coincidentally existed in the same area known as the Montreal Rockers Motorcycle Club, also nicknamed "the Rockers". This particular group emerged as a supporter club for the Montreal chapter of the Outlaws MC before eventually working its way up to become their second chapter within the city in 1978.[24]