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The Nordic Biker War was a gang war that began in January 1994 and continued until September 1997 in parts of Scandinavia and Finland, involving the Hells Angels and Bandidos outlaw motorcycle clubs. The conflict is also known as the Great Nordic Biker War or Second Biker War ( Danish : anden rockerkrig ) to distinguish it from the earlier ...
The Quebec Biker War (French: Guerre des motards au Québec) was a turf war in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, lasting from 1994 to 2002, between the Quebec branch of the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. The war left 162 people dead, including civilians. [11] There were also 84 bombings and 130 cases of arson. [14]
Biker gangs had taken advantage of a government policy of subsidizing clubhouses of any hobbyist or special interest group with a membership of five or more. Motorcycle gang headquarters, many of which were situated in residential areas, received subsidies from this program and, following the Copenhagen Airport incident, these clubhouses became ...
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture.It is generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
The Hells Angels clubhouse on Titangade prior to the attack. A conflict between the Bandidos and Hells Angels, known as the Nordic Biker War, commenced in January 1994.. After its beginning in southern Sweden, violence involving the rival clubs also took place in Norway and Finland, before eventually reaching Denmark on 26 December 1995, when two Hells Angels members were severely beaten by a ...
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada: Known infamously for going to war with the Atomes MC, another drug-dealing outlaw motorcycle club based out of Sherbrooke. After successfully wiping out the Atomes MC, they went on to be absorbed ("patched-over") by the Hells Angels MC in 1984 to re-emerge as what is now the Hells Angels Sherbrooke charter.
The Morbids' refusal to capitulate to the larger Hells Angels was part of a chain of events that led to the beginning of the Nordic Biker War. Michael Garcia Olsen became president of the Bandidos' Helsingborg chapter, which was based out of a dairy farm-turned-clubhouse in nearby Kattarp, following the murder of Michael Ljunggren in July 1995. [2]
Yves Trudeau (4 February 1946 – July 2008), also known as "Apache" and "The Mad Bomber", was a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster and contract killer.A former member of the Hells Angels North chapter in Laval, Quebec, Trudeau was the club's leading assassin and a major participant in multiple biker conflicts throughout Canadian history, including the Popeyes–Devils Disciples War, the Satan's ...