Satudarah
 Club colors | |
| Founded | 1990[1] |
|---|---|
| Founding location | Moordrecht, Netherlands[2] |
| Years active | 1990-present (“outlawed” 2018 in Netherlands) |
| Territory | Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Denmark Sweden, Norway, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Curacao, Suriname, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Namibia, United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Ethnicity | Maluku, Dutch and Surinamese[1] |
| Membership (est.) | Around 6000 Worldwide[3] |
Satudarah MC is an outlaw motorcycle club that has spread the globe since being founded in the Netherlands town of Moordrecht in 1990.[4]
It differs from most other outlaw motorcycle gangs in the fact that it welcomes all races into its club, owing to its historical creation by a group of Moluccans and Dutch friends. Satu darah in Indonesian and Malay means "one blood".
Criminal activities
Members of Satudarah MC are frequently brought into connection with drug trafficking, murder, extortion and weapon trafficking.[5]
Global distribution
Satudarah MC has 44 chapters throughout the Netherlands[6] and has opened in Belgium, France, Spain, Indonesia, Malaysia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, Norway, Singapore, Thailand, Curacao, Suriname, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Turkey.[7][8][9][10][11]
Australia
The national president of Satudarah, who is based in Melbourne, said in 2018 that chapters had been established in all Australian states, as well as a club in Canberra that had recently been patched over.[12] The Sydney chapter had been shut down several years previously.[13] In 2019, splinter groups in Western Australia were said to be bashing each other's members.[14]
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, Satudarah MC is considered extremely violent and ruthless, more so than the Hells Angels.[7][15] On 18 June 2018, the Dutch justice system announced a complete ban on the motorcycle club. The Court sentenced an immediate civil ban of all chapters and related clubs.[16] The ethnic makeup of the club includes Dutch, Ambonese, Surinamese and others.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Panorama: Molukkers zijn krijgers". Crimesite Camilleri.
- ^ crimesite.nl Archived 2011-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Gevreesde motorbende komt naar Antwerpen". deredactie.be.
- ^ "Satudarah gegroeid tot landelijke motorclub". Centrale Redactie (web).
- ^ "De opmars van Satudarah". mickvanwely.nl.
- ^ "Satudarah breidt uit in het noorden". AD.
- ^ a b "Motorclub Satudarah naar België en Duitsland". NU.
- ^ "Kriminellt mc-gäng etablerat i Sverige". Expressen.
- ^ Flanders News (29 April 2012). "Dutch bikers' gang expands to Belgium". Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ taz. die tageszeitung. "Niederländischer Rockerclub expandiert: Bandidos erhalten Unterstützung". taz.de.
- ^ NRK. "Beryktet MC-klubb etablerer seg". NRK.
- ^ Walsh, Rourke; Miranda, Charles (27 April 2019). "Feared bikie gang Satudarah makes bid to return to WA after being banned from Australia five years ago". The West Australian. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ "Satudarah outlaw motorcycle club shut down". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Walsh, Rourke (25 May 2019). "World's fiercest bikie mob Saturdarah Motorcycle Club on brink of WA war". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ^ November 15, 2015. The History of Satudarah MC from One Percenter Bikers.
- ^ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/06/18/rechtbank-verbiedt-motorclub-satudarah-a1606981
External links
Media related to Satudarah MC at Wikimedia Commons