Michel "Sky" Langlois (born 2 July 1946) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the second national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada.
[6] The Popeyes were considered to be the most violent of the 350 outlaw biker clubs in Quebec, and were infamous for engaging in gratuitous and sadistic violence that attracted the attention of the Hells Angels.
[10] The Popeyes ultimately won control of the area around Saint Henri Square, although the arrests of the Dubois brothers cut the club off from their largest supplier of drugs.
Following the assassination of Buteau by an Outlaws member on 8 September 1983, Langlois succeeded him as the Hells Angels' national president, while Lessard continued to lead the Montreal South chapter.
On 22 February 1986, police attempted to apprehend Langlois at a Hells Angels motorcycle rally held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, where he had rented space for a number of exhibition booths, but by then he had already fled Canada.
[25] After living in exile in Morocco for two years, Langlois and two other Hells Angels, René "Canisse" Hébert and Guy "Junior" Auclair, surrendered to authorities at the Sûreté du Québec headquarters in Sherbrooke on 13 April 1988.
[27] Rather than joining the Angels, the brothers Giovanni and Salvatore Cazzetta formed their own club, the Rock Machine, which quickly expanded and, by the early 1990s, controlled a significant portion of Montreal's lucrative drug trade.
Despite Sherbrooke's initial holdout, the chapter eventually relented in October 1994, providing the Hells Angels' leadership the unanimous vote required to go to war against the Rock Machine.
[4] An associate of Langlois, Robert Savard, was arrested in possession of 178 kilograms of cocaine, concealed in the walls of a trailer, while crossing the Canada–United States border at Lacolle on 14 January 1998.
Police suspect that she was a drug courier for the Hells Angels, and that she was murdered by the bikers because they feared she would cooperate with law enforcement authorities and testify against Langlois.
[4][2] Following his release from prison, Langlois stepped down from his role as a senior member in the Quebec Hells Angels, although he did continue to represent the club abroad by attending motorcycle rallies in Portugal, South Africa and the Dominican Republic between 2007 and 2009.
On 15 April 2009, however, Langlois was among 156 people indicted as a result of Operation SharQc, a three-year Sûreté du Québec investigation aimed at almost the entire membership of the Hells Angels' five chapters in the province.
[31] A search of Langlois' home uncovered 47 pages of handwritten notes containing names and numbers of Hells Angels members in Quebec, as well as addresses of bikers in Western Canada and Texas, and $33,500 in cash.
[2] He and seventeen co-accused admitted that they had played a role in the Hells Angels' most violent period in Quebec, the years of the biker war between 1994 and 2002, and pleaded guilty on 16 March 2015 to general conspiracy to commit murder.
[2] In April 2018, Langlois was arrested as a result of Project Objection, an investigation led by the Sûreté du Québec's Escouade nationale de répression contre le crime organisé (ENCRO) which revealed that he and other senior Hells Angels in Quebec controlled drug networks in specific locations across the province.