He was paroled in September 1978 and lived in a mobile home in Port-Cartier with his wife Grassette and son, earning $260 per week as a tyre fitter. Other gangsters who Gallant met at the penitentiary and who he later worked for or with were Denis Corriveau, who he described as a "great friend", Jean-Claude Gagné, and Raymond Bouchard, the West End Gang's lieutenant in the Quebec City area. He smuggled narcotics at Cowansville for Desfossés, who controlled the prison's drug trade. In 1975, Gallant began working for senior West End Gang member Raymond Desfossés, who he first met while they were incarcerated together at the Cowansville penitentiary. Gallant pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery and was sentenced to eight years in prison on 14 June 1974. In retaliation, Gallant circulated copies of statements that Côté had made to the police, exposing him as an informer to other inmates. Fearing that Gallant would in turn inform on him, Côté attempted to kill Gallant, but succeeded only in choking him unconscious. He and Côté were housed in the same detention wing at Orsainville jail while awaiting trial. Côté was arrested and incriminated Gallant, who later surrendered to police. Acting as the getaway driver, Gallant fled the scene after one of two accomplices, Gilles "Balloune" Côté, began shooting at police. On 24 October 1973, he took part in a failed armed robbery of a jewelry store in Chicoutimi. 59 days after his release, Gallant was arrested for the robbery of the Credit Union of Chicoutimi-Nord with an accomplice, for which he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. At the suggestion of other prisoners, he joined a gang of bank robbers after his release from custody in June 1970.
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Gallant was given his first custodial sentence on 27 October 1969, when he was sentenced to serve a 23-month term at Chicoutimi prison for a series of thefts. Although the minimum age for drivers' licenses in Quebec was 21 at the time, Gallant forged the birth date on his baptistery and fraudulently gained a driving licence at 18. Gallant also held various jobs, at a hotel in Chicoutimi, a Steinberg supermarket and as a peat installer. He joined a local gang, the Cossacks, with whom he began breaking and entering at grocery and convenience stores in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, stealing cigarettes and selling them onto a contact. Īn insecure and withdrawn teenager, Gallant became involved in petty crime in order to "feel accepted" by others.
Other tests that Gallant underwent in detention showed that he possessed "above-average dexterity and digital coordination" in addition to being "accurate, focused and meticulous". According to tests he was given while in custody at the Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary in 1978, Gallant's intelligence quotient was estimated at 88 the prison's orienteer Jean Olczyk wrote that he "has an intellectual potential below average". When asked during a Sûreté du Québec polygraph test on 6 December 2008 what the most traumatic experience of his life was, Gallant responded: "My childhood". He later described her as the person he "respects the least in (his) life." Gallant struggled with a stutter, which made him the object of mockery from his family, and suffered from a heart condition and rheumatism in one leg. Gallant's mother was unfaithful to his father and, as a child, Gallant witnessed her infidelities with other men. His father was a meek man who worked as a foreman at the Alcan aluminum smelter in Arvida, and his mother was a domineering woman who physically and psychologically abused Gallant. The fourth of five children, Gallant was born in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec and dropped out of school with a fifth-grade education. Gallant was reportedly one of Canada's most prolific known killers. His victims were mostly members of Quebec-based criminal gangs. Gallant typically killed in public by gunshots to the head, neck or chest, which became his trademark. Gérald Gallant (born ) is a Canadian contract killer who admitted to committing 28 murders and 12 attempted murders between 19. Hitman for the Rock Machine and the West End Gang
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