German police have carried out raids on groups of motorcyclists in several Western cities in connection with three murders
BERLIN – German police carried out raids on Thursday against groups of motorcyclists in several Western cities in connection with three murders.
Tactical operations units and hundreds of regular officers carried out raids in Duisburg, Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen and Muelheim an der Ruhr, police said in a statement.
The German news agency dpa reported that at least 20 premises had been searched.
Prosecutors said the biker groups are related to the Hells Angels and it is suspected that some were involved in two murders in 2013 and a third in 2014, in which the dismembered torso of a former member of the biker group was found. floating on the Rhine.