BIKER NEWS: To split an entire State Rocker groups among themselves

BN -- Bandidos, Hells Angels, Outlaws and Freeway Riders - in North Rhine-Westphalia are so many rockers groups active as in almost any other state. The police now has sounded the alarm: the clubs, it is to be managed in recent years to multiply its number of members. FOCUS Online is on the map, which rocker where the shots.

Various Rocker groups and their supporters fighting in North Rhine-Westphalia for power - always leads to bloody conflicts. 19 shootings has collected only in 2015, the police, the number of unreported cases is probably even higher.

As is evident from a report by the interior ministry, the scene just experienced again a strong inflow: The number of rockers in NRW has thus almost tripled within five years.

Much inflow for "Gremium MC"

With 685 members, the "Bandidos" constitute the largest group, they are mainly in the Ruhr area, especially around Dortmund, represented. Their fiercest rivals, the "Hells Angels" come to 271 members - mainly in the Cologne area and the Rhineland.

Both clubs have doubled its membership in the past five years.

The numbers of clubs "Panel" and "Outlaws" have quadrupled over the same period. This "Gremium MC" according to the "Bandidos" the second largest group has become. At the Club include 388 members, who operate mainly in the Ruhr and in the Lower Rhine.

The 117 members of the smaller group "Freeway Riders" are scattered throughout NRW, like the much smaller group of "Brothers MC", which in any case only about 30 members belong. These two bands were detected for the first time in the new report of the Interior Ministry.

High turnover in the scene

Overall, the Ministry counts around 1,500 members as "real" biker gangs. In addition, rocker-like groups and support groups. Five years ago there were just 532 Rocker - and no supporters.

The head of the evaluation office for Organized Crime of the State Criminal Office, Klaus Zimmermann, but points out that the scene is very moving. "Change The members of other clubs, clubs are resolved, there is internal strife - the presentation of the facts is therefore look different again in three months," he told the "Kölner Stadt Anzeiger".

This article was first published on 26.10.2015, 11:53

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