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The information Sylvain Boulanger gave to police led to more than 150 arrests during Operation SharQc in 2009.
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After being a member of the biker gang for 20 years, Boulanger left the Angels' Sherbrooke, Que., chapter in 2006, after being approached by provincial police.
He spent the next three years detailing the murders, attempted murders and other crimes committed by his former associates.
Boulanger told police he had even killed someone himself.
"The door was open, I come up on the side and I shoot. I hear 'Ow! Ow! Ow!' I see him there and in my head, he's dead. So I get out of there running," he told police in a videotaped conversation obtained by Radio-Canada.
Boulanger was given total immunity from prosecution despite admitting to many crimes during his 20-year career as a Hells Angel. He also asked for $10 million, but police agreed to give him $3 million — a record in Quebec.
A full report on police informants will air on the Radio-Canada program Enquête on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.
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