No Surrender Motorcycle Club
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| Founded | 2013 |
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Membership | 1600+ Members World
Netherlands (main) Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Russia, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon, United Kingdom, Thailand, Bosnia, Suriname, Georgia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States of America |
Key people | Erwin omaratan, Henk kuipers, Ayhan bilkoc, Klaas Otto [1] |
| Website | http://www.nosurrendermc.com/ |
No Surrender Motorcycle Club is an international outlaw motorcycle club established in the Netherlands. No Surrender was founded in 2013 by Klaas Otto. By 2014, the club claimed over 600 members, and membership exceeded 1600 in 2022.[citation needed] The leaders are mainly Dutch trailer residents or of Turkish,Kurdish origin.[2]
On 16 February 2016, Otto announced he had left the club.[1]
In 2014, three members of the group were reported to have traveled to Iraq to fight alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Iraq and Syria,[3] an act which is not in itself a crime, according to authorities in the Netherlands.[4][5]
In June 2015, it was announced that one of the volunteers, Nomad Ron, had died in a traffic accident.[6]
On January 13, 2017, the clubhouse in Emmen was raided by police. According to the authorities, the clubhouse was trading in hard and soft drugs.[7][8]
On April 22, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands reaffirmed previous 2019 and 2020 bans on No Surrender in the Netherlands.[9], making it a permanent ban.
On July 26, 2022, in a house in Den Bosch where an explosion occurred. In this house lives Gracia K., who has recently started a relationship with the known criminal and motorcycle club No Surrender Klaas Otto. [10]
References
- ^ a b 'Oprichter Klaas Otto verlaat motorclub No Surrender' (Dutch), nu.nl
- ^ "No Surrender MC". No Surrender MC. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ Fredericks, Bob (15 October 2014). "Outlaw bikers fighting ISIS in Iraq". New York Post.
- ^ "Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State". Yahoo News. AFP. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ "Badass Dutch Biker Gang Fighting ISIS in Iraq". New York magazine. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ "Dutch biker who survived fighting Isil killed by tram". The Daily Telegraph. AFP. 5 Jun 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Inval bij clubhuis No Surrender in Emmen".
- ^ "Justitie: No Surrender broeinest van drugshandel en geweld".
- ^ "Hoge Raad: No Surrender blijft verboden motorclub".
- ^ De eerste explosie was op dinsdagnacht 26 juli bij een huis aan de Goedenrade in Den Bosch.
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