In Hainaut, a man is beaten with a hammer. A gruesome massacre. In West Flanders, the curtain fell on the trial of 15 members of a motorcycle club who attacked a member with a Bunsen burner at the end of last month. Motorcycle gangs are not afraid of anything, even if they sometimes have the reputation of being ‘rough shell, white pit’. “Whoever enters, drops everything for the club,” says Jelle Janssens (UGent), who has been researching the gangs for a long time. How are things really going with the Hells Angels, the Bandidos and the Outlaws?
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Teddy bears outdoors, grizzly bears behind closed doors. This is how it really goes in the world of motorcycle gangs: “A motorcycle club has no freedom”
