Searches in 28 cities – police take motion towards Hells Angels | EUROtoday

The Interior Ministry in Düsseldorf stated 1,200 officers had been deployed in 28 cities. The authorities had beforehand banned the “Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Leverkusen”. According to the ministry, it was one of many largest operations to fight rocker crime within the nation’s historical past. The investigation includes, amongst different issues, the suspicion of forming and membership in a felony group and predatory blackmail.

Searches in additional than 50 residential and… enterprise premises

Accordingly, greater than 50 properties have been searched since 4 o’clock this morning. Special forces had been additionally deployed. Apartments and enterprise premises of membership members and supporters had been searched in Leverkusen, Cologne, Langenfeld, Monheim, Solingen, Dortmund, Oberhausen, Ahaus, Velbert, Duisburg, Bergheim, Gummersbach, Kempen, Herne, Voerde, Bielefeld, Bochum, Dinslaken, Hagen, Lünen and Marienheide, amongst others. A 46-year-old was arrested in Langenfeld, the Düsseldorf police introduced. According to dpa info, it’s the president of the “Hells Angels” in Leverkusen.

The Düsseldorf police and the particular public prosecutor’s workplace from the Central and Contact Office for the Prosecution of Organized Crimes (ZeOS NRW) had been in cost. The investigation includes, amongst different issues, the suspicion of formation and membership in a felony group.

Spokesperson for the NRW Ministry of the Interior

Interior Minister Reul: “Danger to the security of our country”

In a primary assertion, NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) known as rocker crime “a threat to the security of our country.” It creates areas of concern and strives to undermine the state’s monopoly on violence. In this case, there are indications that membership members are energetic within the “profit-oriented cultivation of narcotics.” In addition, a number of weapons that required a license had been seized. In complete there are 44 defendants between the ages of 21 and 59.

Reul additionally reported {that a} complete of two.5 million euros had been provisionally secured. “This is money that we want to take away from the criminal milieu.”

NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU)

Other native teams of the “Hells Angels” have already been banned

In North Rhine-Westphalia, different “Hells Angels” native teams (“chapters”) have already been banned in recent times. Most just lately, Reul banned and dissolved the “Hells Angels MC Concrete City” membership in 2017. The Higher Administrative Court (OVG) in Münster confirmed the ban 4 years later.

Rocker-Clubs im Drug trafficking energetic

In the “Organized Crime Situation Report 2024,” the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) said that the actions of the “Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs” (OMCG) centered on trafficking or smuggling unlawful medicine. In this context, probably the most critical violent crimes happen repeatedly “to enforce and maintain power structures”.

“Hells Angels” is the biggest membership in North Rhine-Westphalia

The rocker scene in North Rhine-Westphalia is rising – and on the similar time the ability construction is shifting. This emerges from figures from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), which the NRW Interior Ministry confirmed to WDR on Tuesday. The “Hells Angels” have change into the biggest rocker membership in North Rhine-Westphalia. They just lately had 29 chapters in North Rhine-Westphalia and had grown considerably with 469 members, for instance by defectors from the Bandidos. In second place are the “Freeway Riders” with 403 members in 37 chapters.

WDR reporter: Rockers seem in another way than earlier than

WDR reporter Tim Köksalan has been coping with the actions of felony rocker golf equipment for years. Unlike in 2010, when there have been repeated assaults with knives and firearms within the so-called “rocker war” between Bandidos and “Hells Angels”, the scene is now attempting to draw much less consideration. However, that doesn’t imply that the golf equipment’ felony actions have decreased. This is proven, for instance, by a taking pictures in Duisburg in 2022, by which rockers and members of a household from the clan milieu had been concerned.

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Broadcast: WDR 2, WDR aktuell, 28.04.20266:30 a.m
Broadcast: WDR 5, Morgenecho, 28.04.20269:14 a.m