Gabriel Hudon

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Gabriel Hudon (born March 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a convicted terrorist and drug dealer.

In 1961, Hudon joined the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN), a political organization dedicated to the promotion of Quebec independence from Canada. Through the RIN, Hudon met Georges Schoeters and Raymond Villeneuve, left-wing radicals who supported his belief in armed revolution. In 1963, the three formed the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), calling for a Marxist insurrection, the overthrow of the Quebec government, the independence of Quebec from Canada, and the establishment of a workers' society. Financed by armed bank robberies, Hudon, using the alias Roger Dupuis, and members of his violent FLQ group shot and killed two persons while launching a campaign of repeated bombings that terrorized the city of Montreal and resulted in the death of three innocent bystanders.

Arrested following the April 20, 1963 bombing that killed night watchman Wilfrid O' Neil, Gabriel Hudon was charged with murder. He was convicted and sentenced to a twelve-year prison term but after serving three years was granted parole on December 11, 1967. Little was heard of Hudon following his release and he remained out of the public eye until 1998 when he and brother Robert Hudon (b.1944), also an FLQ member, were arrested for selling crack cocaine on Saint Lawrence Boulevard.