The land formerly where the Sherbrooke chapter of the Hells Angels cave was reportedly sold.
The real estate broker managing the sale of this land confirmed to Radio-Canada that a accepted the purchase offer in this file. The City of Sherbrooke also confirmed the transaction. According to information held by municipal services, the land has already been sold.
However, the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) declined to confirm the news.
It is impossible to know who the new owner is or the price paid. ang DPCP has set its sale price at $ 775,000. Located at 1575 Wellington Street South, the nearly 30-acre lot has a municipal valuation of $ 415,000.
The former Hells Angels haunt was taken over by the state in 2020, after an 11-year legal saga.
Last fall, Sherbrooke City Council changed the land zoning law. It is now classified environmental protection (park). So it is impossible for an advocate to conduct real estate development there, for example.
The City would have wanted the DPCP to give the land so that it could be a green space.
An online petition
A petition to protect the woodland area has been placed online by the Citizen Association of Green Spaces of Sherbrooke (ACEVS). So far, nearly 500 people have signed it. We ask DPCP and to the Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette to cancel the sale and transfer the land to Ville de Sherbrooke.
There is a paradox in all of this. The Ministry of Environment tells municipalities to protect valuable woodlots with substantial value and on the other hand, the Ministry of Justice will sell or resell the extremely interesting property in terms of woodlots.denounced one of the members ofACEVSClaude Cinq-Mars.
It didn’t surprise me, but it disappointed me so much DPCP and that the Quebec government will get involved in this boiling market and ultimately endanger this forest when we can protect it and ensure that it is protected. That’s what the people of Sherbrooke told us they wanted to do hereSherbrooke mayor Évelyne Beaudin mourns.
Source: Radio-Canada