Ex-fugitive Jean-François Malo, who left the country before being caught in Martinique last December, says he feared for his life after being threatened by two influential members of the Hells Angels.
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At least that’s what he claims in the five-page letter he sent to Superior Court judge Denys Noël last October to justify his flight.
Several passages from this letter were previously redacted, but it is now possible to broadcast them after legal representations made by several news media, including The Journalin the name of the public interest.
Malo, found guilty of serious assault after having commissioned two thugs to attack a lawyer from Mont-Saint-Hilaire, had sent this missive to Judge Noël to explain his absence during the representations on the sentence which was to be imposed on him.
While he was in hiding, Judge Noël sentenced him to five years in prison, a sentence deemed far too lenient by the Crown, which immediately appealed.
A Hells knocks at home
In his five-page letter, several extracts of which we reproduce here without correction, Jean-François Malo requests the judge’s help, because his life is “squarely at stake”.
He claims to have been the victim of “intimidation and extortion” by the Hells Angels, “more particularly by their very influential member Stéphane Plouffe (aka *butt*)”.
Stéphane “Fess” Plouffe, member of the Hells Angels of the Montreal chapter. Photo captured during operation SharQc.
Malo claims that Plouffe came to his home last summer, a few weeks before the fire in a vehicle in front of his residence. “So he sent me a message,” the criminal deduces in his letter.
Extorted for 4 million
Jean-François Malo also claims that another member of the Hells Angels, Richard Mayrand, made threats to him. “ [Il] teamed up with street gangs to intimidate and extort me out of $4 million. »
“A sort of big black guy who introduced himself as a representative of the Montreal street gangs showed up with him but I don’t know his name,” he told Judge Noël.
“It was clearly explained to me that if I failed to pay I would experience other events such as a fire at the residence and even worse that my person and my life would be attacked,” he further pleads.
He is afraid of prison
Malo is afraid of going to prison. “If you ever gave me a prison sentence (so in real prison and not the suspended sentence at home), it would be much easier for them because they would take care of months *inside*,” he wrote. He concludes with a “I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! » in capital letters, followed by fourteen exclamation points.
Remember that the two individuals mandated by Malo to attack lawyer Nicholas Daudelin in 2020, and who went to fire in his direction through the door of his residence, are Daouda Dieng and Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Ndiaye.
In this surveillance camera image filed in court, we see Jean-François Malo (left) and Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Ndiaye one month after the attack.
Photo provided by the court
They received sentences of 9 and 10 years in detention, almost double what was imposed on the person who ordered the attack.
Malo, arrested in Martinique after more than two months on the run, is still waiting to be repatriated to Canada.
