George Kriarakis was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the last national secretary of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Canada and was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006.
20 Facts About George Kriarakis
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George Kriarakis excelled as a rugby player as a high school student.
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George Kriarakis had no criminal record, refused to use drugs and shunned the company of strippers.
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In June 2003, while George Kriarakis was eating in a restaurant in Woodbridge he was surrounded by a dozen Hells Angels and ordered to go out to the parking lot to be beaten as Woodbridge was considered to be "their" territory.
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One of George Kriarakis's friends called Lenti on his cellphone, who promptly raced off in his tow truck to help his biker "brother" while George Kriarakis was badly beaten up in the parking lot.
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At a meeting at Fullager's house, George Kriarakis was taken to task for his violation of the outlaw biker code, which just publicly humiliated the Toronto Bandido chapter.
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George Kriarakis left Woodbridge shortly afterwards to move into a luxury condominium in Toronto.
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Atkinson wanted George Kriarakis to follow him into the Outlaws, and when the latter refused, Atkinson remarked: "These guys are going to get you killed one day".
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George Kriarakis felt a sense of loyalty plus he wanted to recover the $5,000 he lent another member, Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli to help him buy a motorcycle.
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George Kriarakis refused the demand to return his Bandidos patches to their world headquarters in Houston, Texas, writing on various Bandidos-related websites and forums that "Ontario is standing tall".
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George Kriarakis called Sartelle "a peace of work", leading Sartelle to respond: "Yes, I am a piece of work and proud of who I am".
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George Kriarakis was appointed president of Bandidos Canada, leading Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, to write: "Somehow, the guy who was privately hoping to get out of the club altogether had been promoted to the top position in Canada".
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George Kriarakis stated the meeting did not seem very important, but that he was attending the meeting anyway.
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George Kriarakis was shot in the abdomen while Sinopoli took a bullet in his right thigh.
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The autopsy showed that George Kriarakis had taken seven bullets with bullets have gone under his left ear, two bullets straight through the face and one bullet through both of his shoulders plus one bullet through his chest and another bullet through his abdomen.
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George Kriarakis's corpse was seated behind the driving wheel and his face was found to covered.
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George Kriarakis was buried at a Greek Orthodox church in Toronto, where Father Drakos Poul stated that George Kriarakis's soul was now with the "King of Kings".
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George Kriarakis was covered with bruises as he had been beaten while being shot.
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Edwards wrote that most of the victims of the massacre such as George Kriarakis were the type of weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful.
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However, Edwards noted that George Kriarakis worked 10 to 12 hours a day as a tow truck driver, which led him to the conclusion that George Kriarakis did not make his living via crime.