Benoît Richard, coordinator in communications at the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), answered journalists' questions Friday afternoon.
At the same time as these arrests, police searches are still underway in Montmagny, in a home on the Trans-Comté road. They are also believed to be linked to tensions between independent drug dealers and the motorcycle club. On Monday, a 29-year-old man died of criminal causes and three other people, aged 21 to 51, were injured in Saint-Malachie.
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A second search takes place on Chemin Saint Léon, not far from there , a little later in the afternoon on Friday.
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A police search took place all morning in this residence in Montmagny, in Chaudière-Appalaches. This police deployment would be linked to the conflict between Hells Angels bikers and street gangs in the greater Quebec region.
Searchs carried out by the Sûreté du Québec took place in a residence on Chemin Saint-Léon in Montmagny, Friday afternoon.
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Thursday evening, a man was injured during an armed attack on avenue Bossé, in Montmagny. He was taken to hospital, but released a short time later.
Other operations aimed at weakening organized crime may take place over the next few hours. The general management of the Sûreté du Québec must deploy several of its police officers in the region.
With information from Raphaël Beaumont-Drouin, Colin Côté-Paulette and Camille Carpentier
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