Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
800px-Hells_Angels_MC_Mannheim
- Credit: Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Alex Schmitt
Crime
Hells Angels
outlaw motorcycle gang
police
No Surrender
Satudarah
Bandidos
Caloh Wagoh Main Triad
Pim Miltenburg
Monday, 17 December 2018 - 09:16
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Dutch police call parliament to quickly ban outlaw motorcycle gangs

The police want parliament to speed up a legislative proposal that will allow the Justice Minister to immediately ban outlaw motorcycle gangs, especially now that new clubs are emerging in the Netherlands, said police chief Pim Miltenburg, in charge of the motorcycle gang file at the police, NOS reports.

This involves split-offs from existing outlaw motorcycle gangs or emerging clubs that do others' dirty work for them, according to the government. For example, Caloh Wagoh was often in the news this year with connections to assassinations and an attack on the Panorama building in Amsterdam. Members of Kings Syndicate, a division of motorcycle gang No Surrender, are also being linked with serious crimes, according to the broadcaster. "As a police man I say: hurry up, because the street requires direct action", Miltenburg said.

Currently, banning an outlaw motorcycle gang is a lengthy job in the Netherlands. A court must decide whether the gang is acting in conflict with public order. "The disadvantage of this type of procedure is that we can not arrange it in a short period of time, but it takes months or years before it is completed", Miltenburg said to NOS. The police would prefer if the Minister of Justice and Security can ban a motorcycle gang, with a judge testing the ban afterwards.

So far Dutch courts banned two well-known motorcycle clubs, Satudarah and Bandidos. The Public Prosecutor also plans to get the Hells Angels and No Surrender banned next year, according to the broadcaster. Some 2 thousand people in the Netherlands belong to an outlaw motorcycle gang.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Arriva wants to run trains between Groningen and Paris
  • Dutch banks lower economic growth predictions after first quarter contraction
  • Amsterdam residents use more water than average Dutch households
  • CEO: Air France-KLM takes planet health very seriously
  • Cable car over Amsterdam IJ River could depart from Westerpark area metro station
  • Rotterdam's public transport company RET facing serious financial trouble

Top stories

  • Dutch banks lower economic growth predictions after first quarter contraction
  • Investigators find €80 million in cocaine at Dutch ports
  • Appeal denied: Joran van der Sloot temporarily extradited to U.S. tomorrow
  • Amsterdam to ban polluting traffic in large parts of the city from 2025
  • Hundreds of young Dutch people at risk of forced marriage during summer holiday
  • Dutch PM says blowing up Ukraine’s dam is a war crime

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content