1. Yves "Le Boss" Buteau was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, known for being the first national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada.
22 Facts About Yves Buteau
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Yves Buteau was instrumental in the Popeyes' merger with the Hells Angels in 1977, and played a significant role in establishing the Angels as a major criminal force in Quebec.
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In 1983, Yves Buteau was murdered by a drug dealer with ties to a rival gang, the Outlaws.
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Yves Buteau was initially a member of the Mongols, a Quebecois outlaw biker gang based in Drummondville with no affiliation with the American club of the same name.
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On 14 August 1976, at the age of 25, Yves Buteau was among the many arrested at a hotel in Saint-Andre-Avellin after almost fifty Popeyes had entered and trashed the place.
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Yves Buteau changed the club from a group of beer drinking brawlers to an organized criminal empire.
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Yves Buteau aspired to have his members to appear clean-shaven, keep lower profiles, and avoid hassles.
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Yves Buteau declared war on the Outlaws, ordering the Hells Angels to eliminate the Outlaws from Montreal.
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In 1979, Yves Buteau broke the Montreal chapter into two new chapters, a Montreal North chapter based in Laval and a Montreal South chapter based in Sorel.
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Yves Buteau imposed the condition that Satan's Angels first had to prove themselves worthy of being Hells Angels by eliminating other biker gangs in British Columbia in much the same way the Popeyes had eliminated the Devil's Disciples.
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Yves Buteau wanted Satan's Angels to purge their own ranks of several members who he felt were unfit to be Hells Angels.
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Yves Buteau attended the ceremony in Vancouver where the Satan's Angels bikers burned their old patches to put on new Hells Angels patches handed out by Yves Buteau.
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Yves Buteau had declared that the Tribesmen would be a prospective Hells Angels chapter with the promise to join as a full chapter if they proved themselves worthy while the Highwaymen would be a Hells Angels puppet club.
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Later that summer, Yves Buteau made arrangements to open another Angels' chapter in the East End of Vancouver, which unlike the other three chapters was made up of criminals recruited straight into the Angels.
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Yves Buteau had Trudeau execute both Kennedy and Hachey to stay in Ryan's favor.
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Yves Buteau stated that gang members with cocaine problems were not reliable, as they were too prone to using the cocaine they were supposed to be selling, and he announced that the penalty for breaking his new rule was death.
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On 8 September 1983, Yves Buteau was shot and killed while he was the Canadian Hells Angels president.
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Yves Buteau had just left Le Petit Bourg restaurant in Longueuil together with Gilbert and Rene Lamoureaux of the Angels, and the three men were smoking cigarettes in the parking lot when Goudreau ambushed them.
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Yves Buteau was charged with two counts of second-degree murder but was acquitted after he had claimed self-defense because of earlier events.
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Yves Buteau claimed that Buteau had threatened him on many occasions and that they had both pulled guns, but Goudreau beat Buteau to the draw.
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Yves Buteau was replaced as the Hells Angels' national president by Michel "Sky" Langlois, who later fled Canada to Morocco in 1988 to escape charges of first-degree murder relating to the 1985 Lennoxville massacre.
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Yves Buteau's murder did not change the fortunes of the Outlaws, however.