March 21, 2010
Bandidos
The following articles have been tagged with "Bandidos":
Court rejects pub ban on biker gang logos
National: 16 Mar 10
A Swedish court has rejected as unconstitutional a ban on the wearing of biker gang emblems in bars and pubs.
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Gangland submachine gun maker jailed
Society: 11 Dec 09
A 30-year-old man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for making submachine guns which he was accused of then selling to the Bandidos crime gang.
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'Super bunker' houses Sweden's top criminals
National: 14 Aug 09
The new high security bunker at Kumla prison in central Sweden is now home to around a dozen of Sweden's most hardened criminals. The facility has space for 24 in total.
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Gang leader studies fraud law in prison
Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense.
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Criminal gangs show no signs of leaving Sweden
Analysis & Opinion: 12 Mar 09
More than a year after a bomb ripped through the home of a prosecutor, Sweden carries on its struggle to curb the spread of criminal gangs, AFP’s Nina Larson reports.
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Danish gang war spills over into Malmö
National: 3 Mar 09
A Danish gangster from has been remanded into custody on suspicion of blackmail by a Malmö court as police fear that a Copenhagen gang war is spilling over onto the southern Swedish city's streets.
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Two arrested for bomb attack on prosecutor
National: 24 Jan 09
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of a bomb attack on the Trollhättan home of chief public prosecutor Barbro Jönsson in November 2007.
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Bandidos leader gets nine years in jail
National: 14 Jan 09
The leader of the Bandidos criminal gang, Mehdi Seyyed, has been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in two 2006 car bombing incidents in Gothenburg.
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Motorcycle gang suspected in daring bank scheme
National: 11 Jun 08
A number of people with ties to the Bandidos motorcycle gang are suspected of committing a fraud worth 6 million kronor ($1 million) against two banks in southern Sweden.
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Shots fired at prosecutor's home
National: 14 Mar 08
Shots were fired early on Friday morning at the apartment of chief public prosecutor Mats Mattson.
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Police raid on gang clubhouse reveals toy gun
National: 13 Mar 08
A swarm of at least eight police cars descended on a Bandidos clubhouse near Borås only to discover a toy gun.
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Several arrests after biker gang raids
National: 29 Jan 08
Police raided premises occupied by at several groups affiliated with the Bandidos biker gang in southern Sweden on Tuesday morning.
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Eight arrested in biker gang raid
National: 24 Jan 08
Police in Malmö made eight arrests in a raid on the Diablos motorcycle club,
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Three Bandidos gang members in custody
National: 16 Jan 08
Presumed Bandidos leader Mehdi Seyyed is among those being held following a police raid in Gothenburg.
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Two men wanted for bomb attack on prosecutor
National: 21 Nov 07
Police are looking for two men seen near the home of a prosecutor whose home was attacked on Tuesday.
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Outrage at bomb attack on prosecutor
National: 20 Nov 07
Sweden's justice minister, Beatrice Ask, joins the country's top policeman and top prosecutor in expressing outrage at a bomb attack on a prosecutor's home.
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'Bomb attack' at prosecutor's home
National: 20 Nov 07
Police say an explosion that ripped throught the door to a prosecutor's home in western Sweden was a deliberate attack.
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Pupils threatened 'for not wearing biker gang clothes'
Society: 9 Nov 07
Police say they are concerned after threats and demands for money were received by schoolchildren in Skåne who refused to wear clothes bearing the logo of infamous biker group Bandidos.
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Swedish Mafia: fighting a losing battle
Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports.
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Police fear renewed biker violence
National: 17 Aug 07
The emergence of a new motorcycle club to rival the Bandidos and Hells Angels has prompted fears of a new wave of gang violence in Sweden.
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Five held after biker gang party
National: 22 Apr 07
Five people were taken into custody on Saturday evening when police raided a party in Gothenburg attended by members of the Bandidos biker gang.
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Danish Ferrari men turn themselves in
National: 8 Apr 07
Two men who fled to Sweden in a Ferrari after a knife attack in the Danish town of Ålborg on Saturday turned themselves in to police in Copenhagen on Sunday morning.
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Extortion doubles in Sweden
National: 5 Mar 07
The number of cases of extortion in Sweden has doubled since 1999, according to figures from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. Organised crime is apparently becoming more organised.
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'Swedes of the Year' stood up to criminal gangs
Society: 21 Dec 06
The owners of a Gothenburg restaurant who refused to pay up when gangs tried to extort protection money have been named Swedes of the year. Masoud and Shahnaz Garakoei "acted with exceptional courage."
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Bandidos man arrested over bombings
National: 21 Sep 06
A man has been arrested at a meeting place of the Bandidos biker gang, in connection with two car bombings that destroyed a number of cars in Gothenburg this week.
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Plane raid suspects held in custody
National: 28 Apr 06
Four men were remanded in custody by Gothenburg district court on Friday on suspicion of the raid on an SAS plane at the city's Landvetter airport in March.
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Four arrested for Gothenburg airport heist
National: 25 Apr 06
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the audacious robbery at Gothenburg's Landvetter airport in March. At least one of them is linked to the notorious Bandidos gang.
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West Side Stories
National: 30 Apr 04
Amid unprecedented security a gang trial opens in Gothenburg, and the mother of the accused comes out fighting.
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