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Nordic Biker War
The Nordic Biker War was a wikt:gang war, gang war that began in January 1994 and continued until September 1997 in parts of Scandinavia and Finland, involving the Hells Angels and Bandidos Motorcycle Club, Bandidos outlaw motorcycle clubs. The conflict is also known as the Great Nordic Biker War or Second Biker War ( da, :da:Store Nordiske Rockerkrig, anden rockerkrig) to distinguish it from the earlier Copenhagen Biker War, which took place between 1983 and 1985.Scandinavian approaches to outlaw motorcycle gangs Synnøve Økland Jahnsen, Australian Institute of Criminology (April 2018) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime In Denmark
Crime in Denmark is combated by the Danish Police and other agencies. By type Murder In 2018, Denmark had a murder rate of 0.8 per 100,000 population. There were a total of 54 murders in Denmark in 2017. Corruption According to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 from Transparency International, Denmark, together with Finland and New Zealand, is one of the world's most transparent countries. Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer 2013 shows that the public does not consider corruption a major problem in Danish society, and bribes paid to access public benefits and services are virtually non-existent. Organised crime The National Police has identified ninety-six criminal organisations operating in Denmark. Motorcycle gangs – such as the Bandidos, Gremium, Hells Angels, No Surrender and Satudarah – and street gangs – including AK81, Black Army, Black Cobra, Black Jackets, Bloodz, Brothas, Loyal to Familia (LTF), United Tribuns and X-Team – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms And Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking and tax evasion of alcohol and tobacco products. The ATF also regulates via licensing the sale, possession, and transportation of firearms, ammunition, and explosives in interstate commerce. Many of the ATF's activities are carried out in conjunction with task forces made up of state and local law enforcement officers, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods. The ATF operates a unique fire research laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, where full-scale mock-ups of criminal arson can be reconstructed. The ATF had 5,285 employees and an annual budget of almost $1.5 billion in 2021. The ATF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Svane Nielsen
Bent Svane Nielsen (born 22 July 1958), better known as "Blondie" is a Danish rocker (outlaw biker) who founded the first Hells Angels chapter in Denmark in 1980. He was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in 1984 and has been living on parole since 1994. "Rocker" Ever since his teenage years, Nielsen had been involved in "rocker" clubs as outlaw biker clubs are known in Europe. In 1975, he joined the Dirty Angels biker gang. In 1978, Nielsen merged five "rocker" clubs into a new one called the Galloping Goose under his leadership. Nielsen had been in close contact with the Dutch gangster Willem van Boxtel, better known as "Big Willem", the president of the Hells Angels Amsterdam chapter and the unofficial leader of all the European Hells Angels. Nielsen was described as a very ambitious criminal who had always wanted to join the Hells Angels. In 1979, Boxtel granted "hang-around" status to the Galloping Goose gang. In 1980, Boxtel granted "full patch" status to the Gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørn Nielsen
Jørn Nielsen is a former Danish mobster and high-ranking Hells Angels member. Life Nielsen's criminal career began in 1975 when he was arrested for fighting at a bar as a 15-year-old. In 1978, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for stabbing another man in a bar. He bought his first motorcycle in 1978 and when he was released from prison in 1980, he founded the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's first chapter in Denmark, located in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. In 1984, Nielsen murdered Henning Norbert Knudsen ("Makrel"), President of Bullshit MC. He then fled to Canada but was apprehended and given a sixteen-year prison sentence. He was transferred to a Danish prison in 1988 and in 1996, attempts were made on his life by Bandidos, when the " Great Nordic Biker War" raged. He was paroled in summer 1998, but was put back into prison in 2001 after the death of a man at an Aalborg nightclub in August 2001. He was sentenced to four years in prison. On 27 December 2007, Nielsen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Sass Middelboe
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Möller
Thomas Möller (born 7 June 1964) is a former president of the Hells Angels in Sweden. Möller was one of the founders of the car-and-bike club ''Dirty Dräggels'' in Malmö. This club became a hangaround chapter of Hells Angels Denmark in 1990, prospects in 1991 and Sweden's first regular Hells Angels club in 1993. Möller became the club's vice president and Hells Angels' spokesman in Sweden, and later president. In 2003, the president title was handed over to his successor. Möller's extravagant lifestyle in South Africa, where he lived in a seaside property in Llandudno close to Cape Town became the source of scrutiny from Swedish and South African authorities. In December 2007, the Swedish tax authorities demanded a payment of SEK 4.1 million from Möller due to undeclared income, which according to him was untaxable gambling profits. In March 2009, Möller's sickness benefit pay, which he had claimed for 10 years due to an alleged back injury, was withdrawn by the Swedish S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Tinndahn
Jan Leif Tinndahn (born 27 January 1961), also known as "Big Jim" and "''Solkongen''" ("Sun King"), is a Danish outlaw biker and gangster who served as the president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Europe between 1994 and 2012. Early life The son of factory worker parents, Tinndahn was born in North Zealand and described his childhood as "an ordinary working class upbringing". He struggled in school as a result of dyslexia, and was reportedly quiet and introverted. Tinndahn instead took an interest in mopeds, and he later trained as a mechanic, an occupation from which he was granted early retirement due to spinal arthritis. Despite disapproval from his parents, Tinndahn, along with his brother, became involved with outlaw motorcycle clubs at the age of seventeen, joining and later serving as president of the 666 club. He married and fathered three sons. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ljunggren
Per Michael "Joe" Ljunggren (22 March 1962 – 17 July 1995) was a Swedish outlaw biker and gangster who served as the first national president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Sweden. Ljunggren was a central figure in the Nordic Biker War, in which the Bandidos feuded with the Hells Angels. He was shot dead while riding his motorcycle on the E4 motorway in Småland. The murder remains unsolved, but police believe members of the Hells Angels to be responsible. Outlaw biker Ljunggren was a member of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, which was formed in Helsingborg in 1981. The Rebels were affiliated with the Hells Angels chapter across the Øresund strait in Helsingør and, through this association, Ljunggren became acquainted with Hells Angels member Jan "Face" Krogh Jensen. In 1984, Ljunggren founded the White Trash MC with Jensen and another Danish biker who had moved to Helsingborg, with the intention of eventually forming a Hells Angels chapter in Sweden. The White Trash be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Hirsma
Marko Asser Hirsma (12 July 1965 – 20 October 2001) was a Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster who served as the first national president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Finland. Outlaw biker Hirsma was the singer-bassist in the Backsliders, a rock band that, between 1985 and 1994, managed to release five studio albums and one cover album together with Albert Järvinen under the name Flashbacksliders. The Backsliders' activities waned in the 1990s, when Hirsma became gradually more involved in gang activity. He was a member of the Overkill Motorcycle Club, which vied with the Iron Hog MC for the right to become a candidate for the Hells Angels' first Finnish chapter. During the power struggle, the Iron Hog president was severely beaten on 9 February 1993 and his club subsequently withdrew. This was followed by a high-profile police raid on Overkill's headquarters on 3 March 1993. A few weeks before Overkill became a probationary Hells Angels chapter in 1994, Hirsma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
