Officials believe that Frank H., the head of the Hell�s Angels club in Hanover, hammered out the details of the defection last week with �C...
Officials believe that Frank H., the head of the Hell�s Angels club in Hanover, hammered out the details of the defection last week with �Centro� leader Kadir P. Likewise, Peter M., one of the highest-ranking Bandidos in Europe, confirmed to SPIEGEL ONLINE that the crossover took place on Tuesday evening. However, when questioned about the matter, Hell�s Angels member Rudolf �Django� T. declined to confirm that the defectors had been accepted into his organization yet, saying only: �We�ll let you know in the next few days.�While the defecting members of �Centro� � both notorious and feared in the biker scene for their violence � have cut ties with their old group, it appears that their membership in Hell�s Angels has not yet been finalized. But the bikers have stripped their club house in Berlin�s northern Reinickendorf district of all Bandido insignia.Recent months have seen an uptick in violence between the rival motorcycle gangs � particularly in Berlin, the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein and eastern Germany. And the attacks have been escalating, from knife assaults to shootings to explosives. The reason: the Bandidos have managed to recruit hundreds of young men, many of them from immigrant families in Germany�s east, and put the Hell�s Angels on the defensive.Kadir P�s �Centro� chapter has proven particularly brutal in this ongoing feud, and difficult to control. Its members have repeatedly made savage attacks on rivals in the Hell�s Angels camp, which has close ties to the far-right fan club of a local football club. Indeed, one newspaper article recently reported that the Hell�s Angels in Berlin refuse to allow foreigners into their ranks.Now, however, the brutality would appear to have been forgiven and forgotten � the avowed enemies may soon become brothers in arms.
In the meantime, police units have taken up positions in front of the Bandidos� clubhouse in Berlin. Investigators also say that biker-related properties have been kept under observations in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg since Tuesday evening. �We want to see whether a war breaks out,� one investigator told SPIEGEL TV.Nobody knows, after all, how the Bandidos will react to this mass defection. Revenge and retaliation? Do the �traitors� now have to fear for their lives? In short, what does the defection mean?
�That they�re gone,� says Peter M., the number-two man in Europe�s Bandidos organization, before hanging up the phone.
In the meantime, police units have taken up positions in front of the Bandidos� clubhouse in Berlin. Investigators also say that biker-related properties have been kept under observations in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg since Tuesday evening. �We want to see whether a war breaks out,� one investigator told SPIEGEL TV.Nobody knows, after all, how the Bandidos will react to this mass defection. Revenge and retaliation? Do the �traitors� now have to fear for their lives? In short, what does the defection mean?
�That they�re gone,� says Peter M., the number-two man in Europe�s Bandidos organization, before hanging up the phone.
