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Fortier and the cell's genealogy

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the leader of the Wheelchair Assassins’ U.S.A. cell, and the former boyhood friend of Rémy Marathe’s late older brothers, both struck and killed by trains.

Context

The cell defined and personalized: the A.F.R. is "pretty much Québec's most dreaded and rapacious anti-O.N.A.N. terrorist cell," and Fortier "the leader of the Wheelchair Assassins' U.S.A. cell" was "the former boyhood friend of Rémy Marathe's late older brothers, both struck and killed by trains" — the le-Jeu-du-Prochain-Train origin (n304) folded into the command genealogy: the leader and the turncoat bound by dead brothers the train-game took.

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