Editing Jacques Mesrine (section)

===Murder of Médéric Cote and Ernest Saint-Pierre===
A week after their foiled attempt to free the prisoners, Mesrine and Mercier went for a target practice session, taking Mercier's girlfriend along. But the location, though three miles down a dirt track through the forest, was far from being truly remote and the noise of them blasting away at targets all afternoon could be heard in the town of [[Plessisville, Quebec|Plessisville]] where there was a Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife station. When Mesrine and company drove back along the track, two forest rangers, Médéric Cote, aged 62, and Ernest Saint-Pierre, aged 50, were waiting. The rangers were armed but their jobs had mainly involved enforcing hunting and firearms regulations, and in any case, there was no reason for them to expect that the men who had been making themselves conspicuous by such a disturbance would actually be wanted escapees. Realising they were not policemen, Mesrine submitted to a search of the car, but on finding loaded guns in the rear, the rangers informed them that they would have to follow their car back to Plessisville. While Mesrine was trying to talk them out of this, Cote, possibly alerted by the sight of the arsenal of weapons, suddenly recognised the pair, whereupon Mesrine and Mercier shot both officers dead.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

Mesrine continued robbing banks in Montreal, and even covertly gained access into the US again for a brief stay at the [[Waldorf Astoria]] Hotel in [[New York City]], before moving to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]].<ref name="Mesrine, Penguin Books 1980"/>