Ministers pledge to take on ‘outlaw’ motorbike gangs

Police and justice ministry officials are to launch an offensive against ‘outlaw bikers’ involved in extortion, violence and trading in drugs and weapons, justice minister Ivo Opstelten said in a briefing to MPs on Monday, the Volkskrant reports.


Without mentioning the Hells Angels or Moluccan bike gang Satudarah by name, Opstelten said the gangs are ‘guilty of breaking standards of behaviour and criminality must be made to pay’.
For example, it must be made more difficult for motorbike gangs to build ‘club houses’ where the normal rules in society do not apply, Opstelten said.
The public prosecution department has made several efforts to make groups such as the Hells Angels ruled illegal but the cases did not stand up in court.
Hells Angels prosecution dropped

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