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Inside Hells Angels: War and Peace between Rockers

1/11/2023, 8:02:04 PM


Manslaughter in the rocker milieu: A Hells Angel shoots a bandido dead. The perpetrator: Timur Akbulut. The victim: »Eschli« Elton. To avoid further escalation, the gangs forge a dubious peace.

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But this peace does not last long: the war escalates.

The Bandidos raid the Hells Angels clubhouse and vice versa.

The police are helpless because of the rocker majority.



The Hells Angels had actually made peace with the Bandidos in 2008 at a "summit meeting".

But almost a year later, shots were fired at the bandido Rudi Heinz Elten, known as "Eschli".

The Bandidos celebrated "Eschli" at the funeral service like a war hero.

1500 members of the rocker gang traveled from all over Europe.


»Eschli« lost his life on October 8, 2009 in an altercation with Hells Angels prospect Timur Akbulut.

It's about a woman, "Eschli" provokes Akbulut and tells him to shoot.

Timur Akbulut fired four shots, two ricochets just missed two uninvolved women at a crossroads.

A bullet hits »Eschli« in the head.


The perpetrator Timur Akbulut was convicted of manslaughter.

He didn't show much regret later.

SPIEGEL TV reporter Claas Meyer-Heuer visited him in prison and speaks »Under Interrogation: Inside Hells Angels«

together

with Thomas Heise and Christina Pohl about the perpetrator's attempts to justify himself.

The case stands for the repeatedly shaky peace treaties between the enemy motorcycle clubs, which never lasted long.