More than 270 guests will gather in downtown Montreal Saturday
The lavish wedding scheduled between an influential member of the Hells Angels and the daughter of a powerful drug trafficker from Kanesatake will gather Saturday, in the heart of Montreal, several tenors of organized crime.
Signifying the importance of Martin Robert and Annie Arbic in the underworld, more than 270 guests linked to bikers, mafia or the Irish underworld will attend the ceremony in a sumptuous reception hall on Peel Street, downtown.
Arrogance
This public display of the wealth of a biker in sight reflects the renewed power of the Hells, which borders on arrogance, according to police sources.
"There is a good chance that some people will display their" patches "to taunt us," says an investigator well aware of the preparations for the lavish ceremony.
Intelligence officers from major police forces, such as the RCMP, the SQ and the SPVM, will also be present to renew their photo albums.
The 44-year-old groom is one of the few Quebec members of the Hells Angels to have achieved "World" status, having spent some time in France before returning to his chapter in Montreal earlier this year.
Contacts everywhere
"An influential subject like Martin Robert has contacts around the world, and this marriage helps to better understand who they are," said another police officer specializing in organized crime.
The rider was named to the province's top 10 most wanted criminals in the wake of Operation SharQC in 2009, before being pinned in Mexico in 2010.
He was arrested in the company of one of his guests, Yannick Gauthier.
His future wife, Annie Arbic, 32, is no stranger to the criminal world. His mother, Sharon Simon, ran a prolific drug-trafficking organization based in Kanesatake, in the Laurentians.
At age 21, the future Ms. Robert was responsible for coordinating operations for her mother and was pinned for a conspiracy to export marijuana to the United States in 2008.
She was sentenced to 42 months in prison by pleading guilty to a simple charge of gangsterism.
The Mount Stephen Hotel, on Drummond Street, offers a Royal Suite of 5,000 square feet for $ 7,000 a night.
Unforgettable moment
The two lovebirds will not skimp on the expenses for this "unforgettable" moment.
The ceremony and especially the party should be held at Windsor, one of the most luxurious ballrooms in the city center.
They must spend their wedding night in the Royal Suite at The Mount Stephen Hotel on Drummond Street.
The room of 5,000 square feet occupies the 11 th floor of the building and costs as little as $ 7000 a night.
Several guests must also stay at this hotel, where there were only a few of the 90 rooms available yesterday.
According to our sources, their celebrant will be Stéphane Plouffe, a member in good standing of the Montreal chapter. He and Robert had their classes together in the late Death Riders of Laval in the 1990s.
The two institutions visited by the wedding said in the Journal not to be aware of the arrival of several members of organized crime this weekend.
THE DECEPTION THAT SERVED A BIKER APPRENTICE
After convincing a judge that he was "an asset to society," Martin Robert rose to become one of the leaders of the Hells Angels in Quebec.
In the mid-1990s, the former member of the Death Riders nicknamed "Marty" helped the Hells in their merciless war against the Rock Machine for the control of the Quebec drug market.
"He was recognized as a guy on the gun," SQ's ex-Hells Angel Sylvain Boulanger, an informer for Operation SharQc, who shipped almost all the Hells behind bars in 2009, told SQ.
Coke and firearm
But on August 30, 1996, Robert was arrested with 100 grams of cocaine and a loaded pistol. Since he had just finished serving 18 months in jail for arson, the Crown was demanding a heavy sentence against the biker apprentice.
At the age of 23, however, he escaped prison after mystifying a judge in the courtroom.
The late criminal lawyer Pierre Panaccio had argued that his young client had dropped out of school during his 5th year of high school, then suffered a serious car accident before sinking into cocaine and debts, which he reimbursed "by making some commissions for the bikers ".
Honest life, really?
But he assured that Robert had "taken over" by opening a pizzeria, that he led "an honest and quiet life" and had "no contact with bikers".
"The accused is no longer a danger to society. He has taken the means to extricate himself from the environment where he was and he has become an asset for it, "concluded Judge Paul Chevalier by making Robert benefit from a" home "sentence in 1999.
Three years later, it was for the Hells that Martin Robert became an asset, receiving "patches" of gang member.
With contacts in Latin America and Europe, who has already been accused of having opened offshore accounts in tax havens to launder narcodollars, is now considered by the police as one of the most powerful Hells Angels in Quebec. , according to our sources.
Her half, Annie Arbic, wrote her love letters while she was serving 42 months in penitentiary for being part of a cannabis export network between 2008 and 2009.
For all the life
In one of those letters that had fallen into the hands of the police, she was predicting what will happen on Saturday, a few years late.
"I can not wait for it to be over, and we'll get married," she wrote. I intend to keep you for the rest of my life [...]. "
WHO IS MARTIN ROBERT?
- Member in good standing of the Hells Angels of the Montreal Chapter since December 5, 2002.
- Arrested on January 13, 2010 at a discotheque in Cancún, Mexico, after nine months on the run because of Operation SharQc.
- Guilty of plotting killings during the biker war, he was released from prison in March 2015 after five years in prison.
- In the fall of 2017, the sumptuous estate where he lived in Sainte-Sophie, in the Lower Laurentians, went on sale for $ 1.6 million and then pulled out of the real estate market without a transaction.
AMONG THE GUESTS
Hells Angels
Montreal- David Lefebvre
- Salvatore Brunetti
- Salvatore Cazzetta
- Eric Bouffard
- Frédéric Landry-Hétu
- Roch Delaney
- Alain "Zappa" Durand
- Mario Brouillette (former member)
- Vincent Boulanger
- Alain Vallée
- Sylvain Tétreault
- François Vachon
- Cyril Henri
- Other Hells Angels from France and Germany, in particular, are expected.
Italian mafia (Rizzuto clan)
- Miguel Torres
- ? Giuseppe
- Focarazzo
- ? Antonio
- Pietrantonio
- Antonio Lavaronne, of Hamilton