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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Beginning in the 1960s, one of Montreal's more prominent biker gangs were the Popeyes Motorcycle Club, who were led by Yves "Le Boss" Buteau. [3] In the 1970s, the Popeyes had successfully fought against the Devils Diciples and Satan's Choice biker gangs, and as the journalist Patrick Lejtenyi noted: "The violence that ensued cemented Quebec's reputation as one of the most dangerous places for ...
Canada: Front de libération du Québec: Victory. FLQ guerrillas are disbanded in 1973, after collapse in 1971. Unknown: Unknown: Oka Crisis (1990) Canada: Mohawk Warrior Society: Victory. End of Mohawk blockade; Federal government purchased the Pines from Municipality of Oka to prevent further development; 1 [10] 30 [11] Persian Gulf War (1990 ...
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 ...
From 1977 to 1984, the Hells Angels and the Outlaws Motorcycle Club fought what came to be known in Canada as the First Biker War.The Angels emerged victorious. As the Outlaws retreated into their Ontario stronghold, the Angels began consolidating their activities and expanding, moving into port cities Halifax, Nova Scotia and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Yves "Le Boss" Buteau (1951 – 8 September 1983) was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, known for being the first national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. Buteau began his life of organized crime as a member of the Montreal-based Popeyes biker gang and, by the mid-1970s, he became the club's president. He was ...