Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Empire of Crime by William Marsden & Julian Sher

Author:William Marsden & Julian Sher [Marsden, William & Sher, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Motorcycles, Murder, Mystery, Non-Fiction, True Crime
ISBN: 9780307370327
Google: uLYL2uhqrNkC
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2010-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

For the outlaw bikers in Holland, the drug trade has been a gold mine: they have become the continent’s gatekeepers. Cocaine flows in from Colombia, heroin from Turkey and Afghanistan, cannabis from Morocco. Laboratories in Holland pump out enough chemical drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy to supply not only Europe but also parts of Asia, Australia and North America. Holland is the Colombia of synthetic drugs.

From his ever-expanding base in Holland, Big Willem launched his invasion of Scandinavia. Eager to bring the hundreds of ragtag Nordic biker gangs under the banner of the Big Red, he allied himself with a Danish biker as bold and ambitious as he was. His name was Bent Svang “Blondie” Nielsen, and he was eager to light up the land of Hans Christian Andersen.

Nielsen led a union of five local clubs operating under the surprisingly tame title Galloping Goose. In 1979 they were given prospect status under the Hells Angels. A year later the Geese acquired Angels’ wings. Just two years after the Hells Angels had moved into Amsterdam, they had succeeded in creating their first Scandinavian club in Copenhagen, celebrating the new charter on New Year’s Eve 1980.

Then the war began.

One club refused to join. They called themselves the Bullshit and they controlled a good chunk of the drug market in Copenhagen—especially the lucrative trade at an abandoned military base in central Copenhagen called Christiania. After squatters and hippies took it over in the 1970s, they declared it a self-governing state, and it remained as such until late 2005. They refused to pay taxes and utility bills. Tree-lined canals and brick walls brightly painted with graffiti art encircled and separated the community from the rest of Copenhagen. Christiania had its own sports clubs and social services. Thousands of visitors poured through its colourful gates each week to enjoy its cafés, restaurants, jazz clubs, theatres and art shows.

Christiania did a brisk business selling hash and pot out of numerous smoke shops. Police estimate they grossed anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million DK (US$78,600 to $157,200) worth of hashish and pot a day.

A lot of that money went into the hands of the Bullshit. They refused to ally themselves with the Angels, so the HA set out to destroy them. The Angels struck hard and fast, as if they were sending a message to all of Scandinavia.

Blondie Nielson seemed to have his spies everywhere. In 1983, after he’d received a telephone tip from a barman, he walked into a Copenhagen restaurant where he found four Bullshit. He instantly killed two with his knife, stabbing them and cutting their throats, and wounded a third.

Still the Bullshit refused to surrender. So the Angels struck at the head.

Hells Angel Jørn Jønke Nielsen drove a stolen van to the home of the Bullshit president, nicknamed the Mackerel, and shot him with a machine gun as he walked to his car. With the Mackerel’s wife looking on, Nielsen calmly walked over to his prone body, rolled him onto his back and emptied his magazine into his chest.

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