The motorcycle club Bandidos is banned in Denmark.
The Elsinore District Court will announce this on Wednesday.
– Bandidos MC in Denmark is disbanded, says the judge, according to Danish TV2.
Bandidos are banned in Denmark.
In a judgment of over 500 pages, it appears that the Elsinore district court motorcycle club Bandidos is to be dissolved in Denmark.
It is reasoned in terms of the Bandidos – in some cases – being on the right side of the law, but also having an illegal purpose. It is judged that it is necessary to “protect society” from the grouping.
The decision means that the Bandidos are banned and that, among other things, it becomes illegal to use the motorcycle gang’s symbols.
The Bandidos are considered to be one of the gangs in Denmark with the largest violent capital.
May have consequences in Sweden
According to experts that TT has spoken to, the decision could have consequences in Sweden.
David Sausdal, Associate Professor of Sociology at Lund University, believes it will be noticed. As a researcher, he has been in contact with Bandido members who have bluntly said that if they are not allowed to use their gang vests in Denmark, they will go over to Skåne and do it.
– They meet and know each other. The MC gangs are quite large in Sweden. It is not inconceivable that they think that then we will move to Sweden, or move more in Sweden, he says.
Kim Moeller, professor of criminology at Malmö University, thinks that the effect in Sweden is more difficult to assess.
– Bandidos in Sweden, Denmark and the rest of Europe are cooperating, so a ban can in a way weaken Bandidos in Sweden, he says.
But even he points out that Danish Bandido members will perhaps appear here more often:
– It can also strengthen the Swedish Bandidos if some of the most motivated Danish members start going to Sweden more or maybe even move here.
“Appealed”
Bandido’s lawyer Michael Juul Eriksen is not happy with the verdict.
– The verdict is being appealed with a request for acquittal and that the temporary ban be declared illegal, says Michael Juul Eriksen, according to TV2.
Bandidos is also ordered to pay court costs of 1.5 million Danish kroner.
Frederik Waage is a law professor at the University of Southern Denmark.
– They have now embarked on a path where the aim is to put pressure on organized gang crime, he says.
