What´s the truth about Mongols MC Europe?
Quite often do we here at MC & Gjengkriminalitet receive questions about Mongols MC and if they are represented in Europe or NOT.
Well? If you take a look at the Mongols MC international website https://www.mongolsmc.com/chapters/ you then will see following European countries still should be a part of the Mongols Nation - Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.
Understandable, that many people are confused about all this - because earlier this year did Dutch Weekly Panorama report, that The Mongols MC in the United States had kicked out the majority of it´s European Chapters in "BAD".
American Mongols MC leaders ordered emissaries from several of its European countries to get their act together. Displeased, the American bosses then decided to expel them from the Club.
Quoting anonymous sources
Panorama reported that emissaries from the Mongols in Germany, England, Italy, and the Netherlands were called to account by their bosses in the United States. The Americans ordered their European brothers to pay higher membership dues and to retaliate at once when they were subject of an attack by a rival motorcycle Club. What were the Europeans going to do? Their origin was in the United States. It’s the birthplace of all the big outlaw biker clubs. Still, the Europeans thumbed their noses at the bosses, leaving the Americans no other choice but to kick them out in “bad standing,” Panorama’s anonymous sources say.
Leaving an outlaw biker club in “bad standing” isn’t a good farewell. It means these bikers have to hand in their colors (vests and other materials, sometimes even their motorcycles) and remove any tattoos on their bodies. It’s a nightmare for men who seem like giants when they ride their bikes wearing their colors. Suddenly, they are just like everyone else. Perhaps that is why the story takes a twist. The president of the Mongols chapter in the Netherlands posted an official statement on his Facebook page in which he wrote, “On September 24, 2016, the Mongols chapters in Europe have unanimously decided to go on independently from the Mongols in America.
England, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands will continue the Mongol Nation in Europe. Each country individually, but united under one European flag visible on our side rocker.”
According to the official website of the Bandidos USA, the club split up in 2007. “On July 17, 2007, the club was split,” the message read. “Though we share a common name and a similar patch, we are no longer associated with Bandidos MC in Europe, Asia and Australia.”
That information came up on the American Bandidos’ site earlier in 2016, but as early as 2011, the Danish Broadcasting Company DR wrote that the Bandidos MC split up and that the Bandidos in the United States have a new patch. Besides what DR wrote back in 2011, there has merely been mention and speculation about the Bandidos split on this website, internet message boards, and once or twice in Scandinavian newspapers. The only official American news source to report on the split was the Houston Chronicle in January 2016, when it wrote about the arrest of Jeff Pike, National President of Bandidos USA.
The article said, “In fact, years back, Pike severed ties with the club’s chapters in Europe and Australia over their propensity for bloodshed and mayhem, as well as drawing recruits who didn’t own motorcycles. Back in Texas, Pike drew the ire of some older members with the 2011 redesign of the large patch worn on the back of Bandidos riding vests.”
But that’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Something like this has never happened before and it is something of a mystery that the media has not noticed this and written more about it. For the facts are: Bandidos Motorcycle Club in the United States has a new patch and their National President is no longer the International President of Bandidos MC. Chapters of Bandidos MC in Europe, Asia, and Australia continue to use the original patch and the three continents each have a National Chapter who is in charge of the club in their part of the World.
On its website, the American Bandidos offers a terse explanation as to why they broke up. “As time wore on, differences of opinion between the United States, Europe, and Australia about club values and definitions, prompted changes to be made. It was discussed at the annual Chapter Presidents meeting in February 2006. There it was decided by 100 Vote to set Europe, Asia, and Australia free to follow their own path.”
Until someone goes public about the specific reasons for the split and the subsequent creation of a new patch, we can still expect articles about Bandidos MC where the club is described as a unified, international club. Even though it clearly isn’t anymore.
What it is, however, is a unique entity in the world of outlaw biker gangs. The club that started it all, the club that gave birth to hundreds of chapters around the globe, the original Bandidos have severed ties with its chapters in Europe, Asia, and Australia but are still letting every chapter continue to use its notorious name and colors while the granddaddy of them all created a new patch for itself. It’s a unique occurrence that – for reasons unknown - has been largely ignored by the media.
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And thus, we are left with two versions of the same outlaw motorcycle club. One in the United States, the other in Europe.
These splits signal that the days of a united brotherhood that spanned the globe have come to an end. Today, it’s each chapter for itself.
MC & Gjengkriminalitet
Stockholm, Copenhagen & Oslo.
Sources: Panorama, Gangsters Inc.
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