Diablos Motorcycle Club (founded 1999)

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Diablos MC
Founded1999;25 years ago (1999)
Founded at Pattaya, Thailand
Type Outlaw motorcycle club
Purpose Support club for the Bandidos
Region
Australia, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, Philippines, UAE and Ukraine [1]

The Diablos Motorcycle Club is an international outlaw motorcycle club that was founded in Pattaya, Thailand, in 1999. The Diablos are a support club (called puppet clubs by law enforcement) [2] for the Bandidos.

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The Diablos' colors are red and gold. Like all Bandidos support clubs, the lettering on the patch is gold on red, contrasting the Bandidos' red on gold. The club insignia consists of a maliciously grinning devil's head.

Branches

Since the foundation of the first chapter in Thailand in 1999, branches in other Asian countries have also been formed, including Indonesia, Kazakhstan, [3] Laos, [4] Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. [5] In 2000, the club expanded to Europe, and chapters in Belgium and Germany were founded. [6] Branches opened in Sweden and Finland [7] the following year. The club was established in Australia in 2014. [8]

Incidents

Australia

Members of the Hells Angels and associated clubs raided the Diablos' clubhouse in Melton, Melbourne, on 1 March 2013, according to the Sydney Morning Herald "bashing" a Diablos member and taking identification details of the Diablos' girlfriends at gunpoint as a threat to stop them reporting the attack to police. Approximately thirty minutes after the assault began, Bandidos members arrived in four cars in response to the raid. The Hells Angels group set up their own ambush, ramming a car driven by Bandidos national sergeant-at-arms Toby Mitchell and firing around thirty shots. Mitchell was shot in the right arm and another Bandido received a minor gunshot wound. [9]

Finland

The National Bureau of Investigation has designated the Diablos a criminal organization. [10]

Police conducted a search of the Diablos' clubhouse in Oulu on 18 October 2011 due to a serious criminal suspicion. The chapter president was arrested during the raid. [11]

Diablos member Timothy Stuart Robinson shot and wounded a man in the buttocks in a restaurant in Oulu on 24 May 2012. [12] Robinson was arrested in the vicinity of the restaurant shortly after the crime. [13] In September 2012, Robinson was convicted of aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, assault and a firearms offence, and was sentenced to 4+1⁄2 years in prison. In addition to the shooting, he, along with another man, committed a gross robbery at the beginning of the same month during which the duo beat the victim with a metal baseball bat and an iron pipe. [14]

In January 2015, a total of eight people, some of whom were members of the Bandidos and X-Team, were given prison sentences of various lengths for the violent extortion of a man in Oulu that took place in July 2014. According to the district court, the events originated when the Diablos chapter in Varkaus asked Bandidos' Oulu branch to collect the debt. [15]

Germany

The Diablos chapter in Heinsberg, along with the Aachen Bandidos chapter, was banned by the ministry of SPD MP Ralf Jäger on 26 April 2012. [16]

A nationwide ban on wearing the emblems of the Diablos and seven other motorcycle clubs in public came into effect on 16 March 2017. [17]

Sweden

Two members were arrested at the Diablos' clubhouse in Malmö on 22 August 2002 following an assault at a nightclub which left three people injured. [18] [19]

Police raided the Diablos' clubhouse in Toftanäs, Malmö, on 25 February 2006, seizing amphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Police also found several firearms, including two automatic guns with ammunition, during a search of the chapter president's home. On 10 May 2006, the chapter president was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for firearms offences. [20]

Police arrested six people for drug offences following an operation at the club's Malmö headquarters on 27 June 2007. [21]

Eight members were arrested after police found quantities of weapons and narcotics during another raid on the Diablos' clubhouse in Malmö on 23 January 2008. [22]

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References

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  2. ↑ Barker, Tom (September 2005). "One Percent Biker Clubs: A Description". Trends in Organized Crime. 9 (1): 101–112. doi:10.1007/s12117-005-1005-0. ISSN   1084-4791. S2CID   144003167. Puppet Clubs. In addition to the Big 5 and the Independent clubs there are also "puppet" clubs that do the bidding of the larger clubs, act as potential recruiting sources, serve as cannon fodder in the wars between clubs, and give a portion of their illegal gains to the larger club. The Red Devils MC is well known as a puppet club for the HAMC as are the Black Pistons MC as a puppet club for the Outlaws. The Outlaw Nation and the Bandido Nation list their puppet clubs on their national websites.
  3. ↑ New opening of our first Support Club Diablos MC Astana Chapter, Kazakhstan, Bandidos MC Asia (4 March 2017) Archived 2017-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Bandidos MC guestbook Archived 2019-12-12 at the Wayback Machine , entry from 7 August 2014
  5. ↑ Congrats to Bandidos MC Probationary Chapter Abu Dhabi Emirates and new support club Diablos MC Emirates, Bandidos MC Asia (31 March 2017) Archived 2017-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ History Archived 2015-12-23 at the Wayback Machine , Diablos MC Belgium
  7. ↑ Diablos MC Helsinki 10th Year Anniversary [ permanent dead link ], Diablos MC Finland (4 November 2016)
  8. ↑ History, Diablos MC (4 November 2016)
  9. ↑ Bikies and killer unite in prison Nino Bucci, The Sydney Morning Herald (6 November 2013)
  10. ↑ Syyttäjä Bandidos-vyyhdestä: Oululaiset perivät velkoja Varkauteen Kaleva (12 December 2014)
  11. ↑ Poliisi ratsasi moottoripyöräkerhon tilat Limingantullissa Kaleva (18 October 2011
  12. ↑ Diablos, Enkelit ja United Brotherhood nousseet otsikoihin ennenkin Kaleva (25 May 2012)
  13. ↑ Miestä ammuttiin Tivolissa, ampujalla epäillään olevan Diablos-kytköksiä Kaleva (25 May 2012)
  14. ↑ Ravintola Tivolissa ammuskelleen tuomio ei muuttunut Kaleva (24 April 2013)
  15. ↑ Vesikidutusta ja kiristystä - useita vankeustuomioita Bandidosiin liittyvässä rikosvyyhdissä Kaleva (14 January 2015)
  16. ↑ NRW verbietet Aachener Rockerclub Bild (26 April 2012)
  17. ↑ "Ausdruck der Verachtung": Symbolverbot für acht Rocker-Gruppierungen in Kraft Focus (16 March 2017)
  18. ↑ Tillslag mot MC-klubben Diablos på Fortunavägen i Malmö efter misshandel på Södergatan PPPress.se (22 August 2002)
  19. ↑ Razzia hos Bandidos stödklubb Joakim Palmkvist, Sydsvenskan (22 August 2002)
  20. ↑ Mc-ledare fick åtta månaders fängelse Lena Olsson, Kvällsposten (11 May 2006)
  21. ↑ Razzia mot mc-klubb i Malmö Martin Rex, Kvällsposten (28 June 2007)
  22. ↑ Eight arrested in biker gang raid The Local (24 January 2008)
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