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Bandidos leaders in the U.S. were unable to control their probate chapter in Helsingborg, however, as the club's European president Jim Tinndahn continued to support the Morbids' retaliation against the Hells Angels. [49] A delegation of Bandidos from Texas met with the Hells Angels chapters in Malmö and Copenhagen in an effort to resolve the ...
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, [1] is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. [6] [7] [8] Formed in San Leon, Texas, in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members [5] and 303 chapters located in 22 countries, [4] making it the second-largest motorcycle club in the world behind the Hells Angels.
The Bandidos had moved their headquarters from Oslo to Drammen the previous year. [1] The bombing was ordered by Torkjell Alsaker, president of the Hells Angels in Norway, and was carried out by members of the Screwdrivers Motorcycle Club, an affiliated gang who were granted full membership to the Hells Angels as a result of the attack. [2]
In the days before the shooting, Danish members of both the Bandidos and Hells Angels had been visiting Helsinki, Finland on separate business trips; the Bandidos were opening a new clubhouse, while the Hells Angels were attending a tattoo convention. By coincidence, the two groups of rival bikers were booked on the same flight returning to ...
Bandidos–Hells Angels conflict in Germany (2004–ongoing) [38] Bandidos: Hells Angels: Ongoing. Conflict arose in 2004 as the Bandidos encroached on the Hells Angels' territory across northern Germany [38] The war also spread to the east of the country in 2006 when both clubs expanded into the Cottbus area. [39] Multiple peace agreements signed
Four Bandidos members from Texas – Isidro Savala Zerrata, Jr., David Thomas Wood, Keith Allen Miller and Thomas Fisher Goodnight – were stabbed by Massachusetts Hells Angels members after an altercation broke out between the groups in a parking lot in Eureka Springs on July 29, 2007.
The forerunner to the Bandidos in Denmark was the Morticians, a club founded in 1984. The Morticians were initially a support club of the Hells Angels but by 1988, both groups had transformed from motorcycle enthusiasts and small-time criminals into more sophisticated criminal organizations, and disputes between the groups led to a feud.
The fact that the Hells Angels had conspired to kill Porter when he was a member of the Rock Machine did not stop him from defecting. [156] Porter brought over so many members of the Rock Machine/Bandidos to the Hells Angels as to cause the Toronto chapter to promptly collapse. [158]