Photo Gallery Vicious Cycles
Officials in Berlin fear that new attacks between rival biker gangs might lead to the same level of violence that resulted in the 2007 murder of a Hell's Angel at the hands of a Bandido. Here, Hell's Angels members at the 2008 trial.
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The criminal trial of 14 Hell's Angels members, who faced charges of armed robbery and grievous bodily harm, was held in December of 2008. Here, police officials are pictured standing outside the district court in Hanover with one of the accused.
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But the trial came to a sudden and unexpected end when the main witness for the prosecution refused to provide testimony. Prosecutors offered a deal of reduced charges and suspended sentences that most of the accused accepted.
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Police in Cottbus keep rival biker gang members apart in 2006: According to prosecutors, the Hell's Angels ambushed and severely beat five Bandidos over a period of hours in March of that year.
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The burial of Hell's Angel Robert K., who was killed by two Bandidos for allegedly having taken part in an earlier attack. The two Bandidos who shot and killed Robert K. -- Heino B. and Thomas K. -- were given life sentences by a court in Münster in 2007.
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The two rival biker gangs Hell's Angels and the Bandidos may now be at it again in the Berlin area.
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The Berliner Morgenpost reported that four members of the Hell's Angels were injured in an attack in a small town in the eastern German state of Brandenburg.
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The attack could signal yet another wave of violence between the rival groups.
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In the brutal weekend attack, one member of the Hell's Angels was hit in the leg by an axe. His leg ultimately had to be amputated.
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Though the rivalry is fed to some degree by the pursuit of honor and territory, there is quite a lot of money involved as well.
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