Danish Police on Alert for Revenge Attack by Bikers
Danish police were on the alert for revenge attacks Sunday, after a missile strike on a Hells Angels biker gang party killed two people and wounded 19, in the bloodiest incident yet of a Nordic biker war.
Police named the victims as 38-year-old Louis Nielsen, a candidate for Hells Angels membership, and Janne Krohn, 29, a woman party guest with no known connection to the bike gangs.
“We are always concerned about the possibility of a Hells Angels revenge attack,” city Deputy Police Chief Henning Thiesen said.
Police said that of 11 people still in the hospital after the missile plunged through the walls of a Hells Angels clubhouse in Copenhagen’s Noerrebro, two were seriously injured, one of them in a life-threatening condition.
Eight other people were discharged after treatment.
Prime suspects were members of the Bandidos bike gang, which, like the Hells Angels, is an offshoot of a U.S. group. The two have been battling for supremacy in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden almost since the Bandidos set up shop in the region in 1993.
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