Gang War - Comanches (Brutalt Broderskab - Comanches)

OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE, SYMBOLS, AND VIOLENT IMAGES

The biker group Satudarah MC has set up shop in Greater Copenhagen.

What does it take to bring a new motorcycle club to Denmark?

Bringing a new international MC club to Denmark requires power and balls.

Because, of course, there will be resistance.

Most likely from both H.A. and Bandidos.

We're here. No one can tell us otherwise.

Either we can be friends, or things will have to run their course.

Gangs are a plague on Danish society.

To everyone else, gangs equal

violence, shootings, murders, and stabbings in the streets.

As well as an unprecedented unscrupulousness.

It's important to talk about Comanches

because they're the most significant and most powerful gang in Denmark.

They've grown bigger and more important than the old biker gangs,

which are Hells Angels and Bandidos.

It's the whole spectrum of crimes: murder, attempted murder...

...hard drugs, extortion, etc.

You can't imagine it until you're in it. People died.

Our club isn't all-white or all-black.

If you treat us well, you're our brother.

We don't do anything wrong or anything illegal.

This group grew from a street gang to an international biker organization.

They're turning the criminal underworld on its head.

BRUTAL BROTHERHOOD COMANCHES

BAGSVÆRD GREATER COPENHAGEN

I need some police before it gets dark.

Where's Kristian?

-Don't worry. -All right.

The police are out in force in Bagsværd

where a new biker club has set up shop.

When Satudarah arrived in Denmark, they celebrated it with a huge party

as they always do in that environment.

It's the end of October, beginning of November 2013.

SUNE FISCHER REQUESTED NOT TO BE VIDEOTAPED

We got word about Satudarah's inauguration party.

NEW BIKER WAR MAY LOOM

Therefore, we showed up out there.

In November 2013, Satudarah officially came to Denmark.

They made it official with a party at their clubhouse in Bagsværd

where the police were present as well.

We see bikers entering and wearing their new vests

with this Indian charicature on a yellow background.

It's unusual to see people with an immigrant background

wearing back patches.

At Hells Angels and Bandidos parties, there may have been one or two

non-ethnic Danes. It's the complete opposite here.

There were probably 50 officers present on the scene.

The police are there to signal how seriously they're taking it

and that's why they showed up in force.

How does Satudarah affect the biker community?

It has an effect on organized crime and the biker community

that there used to be two biker groups, Bandidos and H.A.

For a long time, they were in charge of the criminal underworld.

Do we have to do it like this?

Are you trying to test our strength? Let's go, then.

Suddenly, a challenger appears who doesn't care about the rules

that H.A. and Bandidos had.

For ten years, they had an agreement that there could be no one else.

From that point of view, it's a clear-cut provocation

for Satudarah to establish itself without consulting the others first.

CHRISTIANSBORG COPENHAGEN

I took note when Satudarah came

because you automatically get nervous about the consequences.

What will it mean for safety and crime?

What will the consequences be?

I became aware of Satudarah showing up in our area

both through media coverage of them...

but I actually also saw members of Satudarah here with their patches

and wondered who they might be.

When I read about them, it scared me.

They seemed even more brutal than VHK.

I remember when I first came across the name.

The Dutch connection. We heard about it here in Herlev

because they're based out of Gladsaxe, in Værebroparken.

To me, it's a clear provocation to openly be flaunting

that you are part of a faction that is engaged in criminal

and subversive activities as their primary function.

"Here we are." That is a huge provocation.

The party symbolizes that the street gang VHK is a thing of the past,

and they're now part of Denmark's established biker community.

We know for certain that Nadim Khan is present during the party.

Nadim Khan is clearly at the party. His vest is in there.

-Are you the spokesperson? -Yes.

He doesn't show up while we're there.

He might be lurking in the background.

I didn't even know what he looked like.

Nadim's role in Satudarah is hard to explain,

other than he helped found Satudarah in Denmark.

That's it.

For Nadim Khan, in the months leading up to this opening party,

he brought Satudarah to Denmark along with ex-H.A.: Ole Bonnesen.

Nadim Khan is the club president and is often referred to in the media

as the reclusive kingpin.

Khan's seeking admission in Satudarah says a lot about his mindset.

He sees the potential

of becoming the head of the Danish Satudarah branch.

He can see how he can outmaneuver or grow as big as

or bigger than the other two clubs, H.A. and BA.

It's a testament to his level of ambition.

It came as quite a surprise that the Værebro Group grew

from being a street gang to becoming a biker group.

In 2013, I was seconded to the Western Copenhagen Police

who had determined that Satudarah had established a clubhouse in the area,

and that was a thorn in the side of the police precinct,

and they were going to try to shut it down.

Therefore, an investigation was launched.

They wanted the bikers out of the municipality.

That prompted the police to open an investigation.

They want to investigate if criminal activity is taking place there,

what it might be, and if there's a way to shut down

Satudarah's clubhouse on Laurentsvej in Bagsværd.

A lot of the investigation work consists of surveillance.

We have surveillance specialists, but we all have to step in

because there aren't that many observers, after all.

When you look at the relationship between Satudarah and H.A.

in the early days of Satudarah, it seems very brittle.

There's a code that says you can't start a new biker club,

but Satudarah does it anyway.

Then there's Nadim Khan's relationship with Hells Angels

where he's helped people in various situations.

The story of Phillip Nielsen is particularly interesting.

Can you tell us about your first encounter with Nadim?

The first time was, I guess...

It was maybe 22 years ago or something.

I was a DJ and started running my first disco when I was 18.

I made tons of money doing it.

One day, some people arrived, and they were looking for trouble.

Two or three well-built guys.

I was on my own dealing with it, but Nadim was there.

He's like, "You need a hand?" I say, "Sure, I'd appreciate it."

So... in a nice way, we sent them home in an ambulance.

After that, I think...

Something clicks when you've done something like that together.

Our friendship grew from that point onward.

Two degrees Celsius outside. That's insane.

When I left, it was 18.5.

I live in Spain.

Every two to three months, I go back to Denmark. Something like that.

I first encountered Phillip Nielsen as a high-ranking H.A. member.

He was part of the new generation of bikers

that you saw moving up in the hierarchy

after the gang conflict in the 2000s.

I've done a lot of things. I was a DJ. I had a disco.

On my biggest night, we had 1,100 guests.

He was the kind of guy who was a known face in the city's nightlife.

It wasn't uncommon to see him holding court.

There were different gangs and factions...

Different bikers from different clubs and...

Yeah, I guess I slowly got sucked into the environment. Well, I did.

Somehow, he was the symbol of H.A. bikers of that time.

Big, jacked, face tattoos.

-We've been shopping. -I know.

-Did you receive any complaints? -No.

He had a reputation for being ruthless in the criminal underworld.

I went to visit H.A.'s clubhouse, and there were some people I knew.

I ended up staying there. I bought a motorcycle.

He was probably a crowd puller

as far as recruiting young people to H.A.,

and he was deeply involved with AK81.

I held a lot of parties, got ladies, had a nice car, had a nice house.

I was popular with a lot of young people,

while the older members saw me more as a threat

rather than acknowledging me as an asset to the club.

80% of the kids they were getting in were there because of me.

There's an extremely violent incident in Phillip Nielsen's life

that says a lot about what people are willing to do in that environment.

I'm not sure I know the way.

I think I do. I've driven by a few times.

On the morning of the 21st of September 2012,

I wished people a good day on Facebook,

and then I wrote, "AFFA." "Angels forever. Forever angels."

Which is quite amusing,

but I had no idea what was going to happen. At all.

I went to the gym like I always do.

I was coming out here for a reason that I don't remember.

Nothing that made me think

that I deserved the treatment that I got.

I think it's this way. Yeah, it is.

UGANDA FOREST AMAGER

I think it was here.

I think this is it.

I got punched from the side, and then I got stabbed in the buttock.

From then on, it escalated.

UGANDA FOREST AMAGER

It's like a bolt from the blue.

Then I got stabbed, and I'm like, "What's going on?"

I said, "You got the wrong guy." From then on, it escalated.

With all kinds of blunt weapons and knives and so on.

Then I don't remember much more.

I was stabbed about 30 times in my arms and legs.

BLOODBATH IN UGANDA FOREST

A screwdriver was plunged into my lung. Both my legs were broken.

I had my jaw crushed, I had bone fragments in my tongue.

I had stab wounds to my head.

A decent ass-whooping. That's what it was.

But waking up alone in the hospital was the worst.

And not knowing why.

Phillip Nielsen's career in H.A. came to an abrupt end.

Along with another H.A. biker, he was beaten out of the club.