Hundreds of police officers in action – major raid against rocker club in Baden-Württemberg

Because of suspicion of criminal activity, several hundred police officers in Baden-Württemberg are currently searching the apartments and meeting places of the rocker group “Gremium MC”. According to reports, it is about a club ban, as security circles confirmed to the German Press Agency. “Schwäbische Zeitung” and “Bild” first reported.

The Panel Motorcycle Club (Gremium MC) was founded in Mannheim in 1972. In 2021, the local group “Committee MC Southgate” from the Heidelberg area was banned on suspicion of organized crime. At the time, the Interior Ministry described “Gremium MC Germany” as the largest national “outlaw motorcycle gang”. The club aims to “increase territorial and financial power” within the rocker scene and regularly tries to enforce corresponding claims with violence.

More than 2000 members in the southwest

According to Baden-Württemberg's current security report, the term “Outlaw Motorcycle Gang” is used for rocker groups that reject the state's monopoly on violence and are often associated with organized crime. “Their activities include, in particular, protection rackets, drug trafficking and pimping.” The largest and best-known rocker groups in the country are the Bandidos, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and the MC.