Kirsten Monberg, another neighbor, said she was frantic when one of the Angels asked her 7-year-old son to go get him a pack of cigarettes. 'Who knows? It might work against other groups.' Like? 'Like Jehovah's Witnesses, religious groups,' he said. 'I don't like this special kind of law,' said dry cleaner Henry Piersen, who lives across the street from the now-razed clubhouse. They are suspicious of the recent talk from Danish Justice Department officials that the bikers - called rockers here, after the '60s British term 'mods and rockers' - might be specifically forbidden to congregate. But there is no sense of triumph among the neighbors.

The bikers are gone from that street, taking with them the local threat. At their instigation, authorities forced the club out of its quarters, and around the same time biker clubs were forbidden to gather in populated areas. The Angels came and went and kept to themselves.īut when rocket-launched grenades started crashing through walls, the families in the Amagen Island neighborhood decided they could not take the chance that one of the missiles might power its way into the day-care center next to the Angels' clubhouse. When a band of Hell's Angels moved into a new clubhouse in a working-class district of South Copenhagen last year, neighbors at first acted naturally, living and letting the bikers live next door. 'We are concerned that we will have a new criminal organization,' Stockholm police spokesman Claes Cassel said, referring to reports that the Swedish club will become a Hell's Angels chapter.Įver since Angels and Bandidos carried out a daylight gun battle at Copenhagen International Airport a year ago, this libertarian, mind-your-own-business country of bicycle riders has been pondering the unthinkable: outlawing the outlaws outright.

In Stockholm this week, police have gone on alert because hundreds of Hell's Angels from all over Europe are expected for a weekend of partying at the clubhouse of the MC Sweden biker gang, the Associated Press reported. 'It's one of our least desirable American imports,' one Danish official said. Indigenous clubs of Hell's Angels and Bandidos, organized as overseas chapters of motorcycle gangs in the United States, fight for honor, revenge and territory in the drug trade. The most ominous recent biker violence has happened in Copenhagen and other Danish towns and cities, but the warfare also has touched Sweden, Norway and Finland. The next day the same thing happened at a biker residence in another Danish town.Īfter nearly a year of such incidents - which have killed eight people across Scandinavia, four of them in Denmark, and wounded scores more - Danes are persuaded that something intolerably rotten is going on. The explosive charge did not detonate, and no one was hurt. 18, one of the shoulder-fired grenades, designed to penetrate tanks and incinerate their occupants, was fired into a small-town Danish jail.

They are automatic weapons and rocket-propelled antitank grenades. The bikers' weapons of choice are not six-shooters. Like the mythic cowboys of the old American West, two violence-prone Nordic motorcycle clubs have taken to saying, 'This town ain't big enough for the both of us.' They settle their scores in blood, and leave the rest of the townsfolk terrorized and angry. Armed biker gangs are locked in a loud and bloody war spreading across Scandinavia, disturbing the peace and upsetting the tolerance that has allowed them to flourish in the first place.

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