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   Biker Éric Leclerc charged with attempted murder   
      
   Victim Claude Fleury refuses to help police investigate shooting   
      
   BY PAUL CHERRY, GAZETTE CRIME REPORTERMAY 12, 2014   
      
      
      
      
   Eric Leclerc in a 1999 police mugshot.   
   Photograph by: Gazette files   
   MONTREAL — A man who was kicked out of the Hells Angels because of his   
   problems with drug addiction is expected to appear in court Tuesday in   
   an attempted murder case involving a recent downtown shooting.   
      
   Éric Leclerc, 43, was charged on Saturday with the attempted murder of   
   36-year-old Claude Fleury, a victim who refused to help the Montreal   
   police in their investigation of the early Friday morning shooting.   
   Leclerc is scheduled to return to the Montreal courthouse Tuesday for a   
   bail hearing that is likely to be a mere formality. He was still serving   
   a 15-month sentence for armed robbery when he was arrested Friday.   
      
   Fleury, a man with an extensive criminal record, was shot at least once   
   as someone opened fire on St-André St., in between René-Lévesque Blvd.   
   and Viger Ave., shortly after 2 a.m. on Friday. He was taken to a   
   hospital in stable condition but, according to a police spokesperson,   
   Fleury refused to co-operate with investigators. Leclerc was arrested   
   near the scene of the shooting shortly afterward. According to the   
   indictment filed in the case, Leclerc was residing in a three-storey   
   building on St-André St. at the time of the shooting.   
      
   In 2001, Leclerc was among a group of four men who were the first to be   
   sentenced under Canada’s then relatively new gangsterism laws, which   
   provided judges the opportunity to double a convict’s sentence if their   
   crime was committed for the benefit of a gang. Leclerc, who used to go   
   by the nickname Beluga, received a 90-month sentence in 2001 for drug   
   trafficking with members of the Rock Machine, a gang that was part of a   
   group of criminal organizations called The Alliance. Between 1994 and   
   2002, the Alliance waged war with the Hells Angels over drug trafficking   
   turf in Quebec’s major cities.   
      
   In 2000, while he was awaiting his trial, Leclerc and three other   
   members of the Rock Machine stunned officials at the Rivière des   
   Prairies Detention Centre when they asked to be transferred to a section   
   of the jail where men loyal to the Hells Angels were detained. The four   
   men had made arrangements to defect to the rival biker gang which, up to   
   that point, had been unheard of.   
      
   Leclerc began the 90-month sentence as a part of the Hells Angels   
   organization but, according to his Parole Board of Canada records, he   
   was officially disaffiliated from the gang early in 2009. “According to   
   police sources, your disengagement was not voluntary. You were thrown   
   out because of your problems with drug addiction,” the parole board   
   noted in one of it’s decisions concerning Leclerc.   
      
   The sentence proved to be a headache for Correctional Service Canada as   
   Leclerc was aggressive with penitentiary staff, got into fights with   
   other inmates and, while residing at a Montreal halfway house in 2006,   
   tried to hold up a bar by threatening a cashier at knifepoint. He   
   received an additional 30-month sentence for the armed robbery.   
      
   In March 2011, the parole board revoked what was by then Leclerc’s third   
   release. During a parole hearing, on March 11, 2011, Leclerc claimed   
   that he had failed to return to a halfway house because he had been   
   drugged by a woman. He told the parole board he had rented a hotel room   
   expecting to meet with the woman. Instead, he fell asleep in the room   
   and woke up in a hospital with pain in his kidneys. He theorized to the   
   parole board that the woman had drugged his coffee and that she was   
   somehow involved in an underworld settling of accounts where he was the   
   target. Leclerc’s parole officers were informed he ended up at the   
   hospital after suffering an apparent drug overdose.   
      
   In December 2011, shortly after Leclerc’s lengthy sentence ended, he was   
   arrested for an armed robbery involving a break-in in Montreal. He   
   pleaded guilty to the armed holdup and, on June 4, 2013, received the   
   equivalent of a three-year prison sentence. He was still serving the 15   
   months that remained on the sentence when he was arrested for the   
   attempted murder of Fleury.   
      
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