Global InformationGitans Moto Club information
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| Founded | 1967 |
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| Founder | Guy Auclair, Georges Beaulieu, Jacques Filteau and Richard Rousseau[1][2] |
| Named after | The French-language word for "Gypsies" |
| Founding location | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
| Years active | 1967─1984[3][4] |
| Territory | Sherbrooke[5] |
| Ethnicity | Quebeckers |
| Membership | ~20 members (c.1973) ~15 members (c.1980) |
| Leader(s) | Georges Beaulieu (President) Jacques Filteau (de-facto leader) |
| Activities | Drug trafficking, murder, intimidation, gangsterism, burglary, assault, hooliganism, homicide, coercion, sexual violence and prostitution (later) |
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The Gitans Moto Club, generally abbreviated to as the Gitans MC, were a French-Canadian outlaw motorcycle gang based out of Sherbrooke, Quebec, who integrated into the larger Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) on December 1984 to become what is now the Hells Angels MC Sherbrooke charter (headquartered in Lennoxville).[6][7][8][9] The term "gitan" in the group's name is the French-language word for gypsy.
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