WORLD BRIEFING / CANADA
A Canadian hit man whose victims included outlaw bikers, mobsters and bystanders pleaded guilty to 27 charges of first-degree murder, making him one of Canada’s worst killers.
Gerald Gallant, who has become a police informant while serving a life sentence for a 2001 slaying, also pleaded guilty to 12 charges of attempted murder and several other charges.
The killings between 1978 and 2003 targeted members of motorcycle gangs, mobsters and members of street gangs. Biker gangs have long been a problem in the French-speaking province of Quebec, and most of the killings occurred between 1994 and 2002 as the Hells Angels and Rock Machine gangs battled over drug sales.
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