Black Jackets
The Black Jackets are a gang of young people and adults from southern Germany . It was founded in 1985 and is currently represented in twelve countries with so-called “chapters” (local or national clubs). Visually and organizationally, the gang is based on the rocker subculture, although it is not a motorcycle club in the narrower sense, as a motorcycle is not a membership requirement. They belong to the so-called street gangs who are not considered part of the culture by all members of the rocker scene.
History and structure
In 1985, 18- to 20-year-old men from Turkey , Italy and the former Yugoslavia formed an informal group under the leadership of the youngster Sedat K. in the Castell youth center in Heidenheim . In order to show the community of the group to the outside world, all members put on black bomber jackets and the group called itself “Black Jackets”. Membership in the group made the immigrants feel self-confident at the time.
The structure of the Black Jackets is based on autonomous chapters (local groups) with presidents (local leaders), members (members), prospects (newcomers) and supporters (supporters). According to the police, there are 500 active members in the Baden-Württemberg area.
Arguments
In January 2009, 10 to 15 members of the Stuttgart-South Central chapter beat down two men of Russian descent in front of the Anna youth center on Gnesener Strasse with telescopic batons. The victims were seriously injured. Only two of the perpetrators were sentenced in July 2009 by the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt District Court to terms of eleven and 24 months' imprisonment. However, these were suspended on probation , with the main perpetrator already on probation.
On June 27, 2009, 22 hooded members of the Stuttgart-South Central chapter beat Turkish youths on the playground of the Esslingen orphanage school. The victims were attacked with baseball bats, telescopic batons and iron bars and some were seriously injured, one of whom was in a coma for weeks . The reason for the attack was an alleged provocation by some of the victims who belonged to the rival Esslingen gang La Fraternidad (LF). The gang had wanted to take revenge on them. The gang members were arrested by 170 police officers in a raid shortly after the crime . The main hearing against 21 of them took place over several years before a large youth chamber of the Stuttgart Regional Court . The charges were triple attempted murder, dangerous physical harm and grave breach of the peace. For security reasons, the hearing took place in the multi-purpose hall of the Stammheim prison . Another accused was charged with complicity in dangerous bodily harm but was subsequently released. A few months after the incident, the Stuttgart-South Central chapter disbanded. On October 15, 2012, after years of custody , they were sentenced to long prison terms. A 22-year-old main offender received the longest prison sentence at seven years and nine months .
In August 2009, 150 to 200 members of the Black Jackets who had traveled from different cities wanted to overthrow the President of the Chapter Horb am Neckar . The Freudenstadt Police Department prevented contact with the man. A few months after the incident, the Horb am Neckar chapter also dissolved.
In May 2010 there were violent attacks against members of the Black Jackets by the United Tribuns in Rottweil . As a result, the Black Jackets mobilized several hundred members nationwide to take revenge on the Rottweiler United Tribuns for what had happened. The police managed to prevent the confrontation through nationwide police measures.
In December 2010, around 20 members of the United Tribuns attacked four members of the Black Jackets in a car in Pforzheim. A few hours after the incident, around 500 members of the Black Jackets who had traveled from different cities wanted to take revenge on the perpetrators. The Pforzheim Police Department prevented contact with the perpetrators.
On October 25, 2011, the police raided several apartments of members of the Black Jackets in the Ludwigsburg district . Drugs, weapons and stolen property were seized and several members of the group were arrested.
On December 21, 2012, a member of the Black Jackets was stabbed to death by suspected members of the Red Legion . Another five men were seriously injured in the altercation.
On January 23, 2013, five people close to the Black Jackets were arrested during a raid in the Bonn area and 33 apartments were searched; Several raids in the Bad Godesberg district are said to be attributable to the group .
Also in January 2013, the boss and deputy boss of the newly formed rocker-like Black Warriors were arrested in Villingen-Schwenningen on suspicion of human trafficking . It turned out that one of the two co-founders of the now disbanded Black Jackets was in Pforzheim .
On February 16, 2013, a member of the Black Jackets Westend in Bergheim / Quadrath-Ichendorf was shot dead by the kiosk owner after a dispute in a kiosk.
In March 2013, due to a confrontation between two gangs in February 2013, the police arrested two members of the Black Jackets in a brothel in Ulm and confiscated various weapons.
In October 2013, a member of the Black Jackets was sentenced to four years and one month in prison for extortionate kidnapping and dangerous assault .
In November 2013, the Munich police prevented a conflict between Black Jackets and Hells Angels .
Objects belonging to the Black Jackets Munich were searched by the police in February 2014 and individual members were arrested for violating the Narcotics and Weapons Act as well as various crimes of bodily harm .
On May 30, 2014, there was an argument in Aachen between four members of the Black Jackets and a 21-year-old teenager. The victim was beaten and kicked and then robbed. On June 13, 2014, the Aachen criminal police arrested four alleged perpetrators. Furthermore, the homes of those affected were searched. They are charged with various crimes of bodily harm and one case of extortionate kidnapping.
In April 2016 there was a dispute between the United Tribuns and the Black Jackets in Heidenheim, in which one man died and another was seriously injured. A court thereupon sentenced a member of the Black Jackets to 13 years imprisonment for "manslaughter and attempted manslaughter in unity with serious bodily harm".
On June 10, 2020 there was an incident in Munich, the Black Jackets and the Hells Angels had an argument, which resulted in arrests.
Name and symbols
The gang is also called Black Jackets 210 or BJ 210 . The second letter of the alphabet is the B and the tenth the J, so 210 stands for BJ, an abbreviation for Black Jackets.
Black Jackets means "black jackets" and indicates that members only wear black jackets. As Backpatch one is Bulldog used with a spiked collar. Above it is Black Jackets and below it Forever Friends , which means forever friends , and horizontally the founding date 1985. The lettering is white on black.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Silja Kummer: Nobody has ever asked us ( memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Heidenheimer Zeitung , accessed on September 16, 2010
- ↑ Black Jackets: Police are monitoring the scene , accessed on March 18, 2011
- ↑ Beating in court: First judgment against Black Jackets ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, accessed on September 18, 2010
- ↑ www.landgericht-stuttgart.
- ^ "Black Jackets" accused: Youth gang beats victim half-dead in the schoolyard . In: Die Welt , accessed on January 1, 2010
- ↑ Tatjana Bojic: Because of attempted murder: 21 members of the "Black Jackets" in court . In: Die Welt, accessed on May 24, 2010
- ↑ a b Large-scale operation against Black Jackets ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Schwarzwälder Bote , accessed on January 1, 2010
- ^ "Black Jackets" in Horb: Police prevent gang uprising ( Memento from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , accessed on January 1, 2010
- ↑ Rottweil: Police nip conflict in the bud. (No longer available online.) In: Crime Blog. May 30, 2010, archived from the original on May 18, 2013 ; Retrieved February 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kripo warns Black Jackets: No revenge on United Tribuns . In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , accessed on November 21, 2011
- ^ Raid on "Black Jackets" ( Memento from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Südwestpresse , accessed on October 27, 2011
- ↑ "Deadly stabbing between Red Legions and Black Jackets: Now 13 in custody" on pz-news.de of January 10, 2013, accessed on April 7, 2013
- ↑ "Red Legions against Black Jackets: 1 dead, 7 in custody" on pz-news.de of December 26, 2012, accessed on April 7, 2013
- ↑ "Large-scale operation: 'Black Jackets' group blown up" on ksta.de, accessed on February 18, 2013
- ^ Bouncer clinch: heads of the new Black Warriors in custody on pz-news.de, accessed on March 19, 2013
- ↑ 30-year-old victim was a member of the Black Jackets
- ^ "Two members of the" Black Jackets "arrested with arsenal" on stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, accessed on March 17, 2013
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Video: Rocker War in Neu-Ulm and Ulm? Retrieved April 9, 2013
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Beaten bloody with a whip: Black Jackets rockers convicted , accessed on October 8, 2013.
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Black Jackets want to attack Hells Angels , accessed on November 15, 2013.
- ↑ Rocker scene: supporter clubs and rocker-like groups are popular Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Transport, Information for the Protection of the Constitution Bavaria 1st half of 2014
- ↑ Police press Aachen: Arrest by special police unit - arrest warrants issued , accessed on June 18, 2014.
- ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Street gang trial: 13 years imprisonment for Rüstem Z. for manslaughter . In: swp.de . ( swp.de [accessed on May 23, 2017]).
- ↑ DerStandard: Three arrests after an argument between rocker gangs in Munich
