Rock machine

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Rock Machine , also The Rock Machine MC, is an outlaw motorcycle gang with six Canadian , six US , eight Australian and four German chapters. The Motorcycle Club was founded in 1986 by Salvatore Cazzetta , a former friend of Maurice Boucher , President of the Hells Angels Charter in Québec . Rock Machine was at the center of a bitter rocker war with the Hells Angels in the 1990s over the Montreal drug market . Other gangs were involved in the seven-year conflict that left 160 dead and countless injured.

After Rock Machine was outnumbered, the club became a " Probationary Chapter " of the Bandidos in January 2000 . In 2007 Rock Machine became independent again. The newly formed club claims to no longer pursue criminal activities and is only a club of enthusiastic motorcyclists.

prehistory

In 1982 Salvatore Cazzetta and Maurice Boucher were members of a motorcycle gang of the White Supremacy movement, which called itself "SS" as an allusion to the SS . As leaders of this gang, based in Pointe-aux-Trembles on the Île de Montréal , both should become members of the Hells Angels. But when, in March 1985, five Hells Angels members were sneakily murdered in a dispute over the embezzlement of drug funds in Lennoxville , the two former friends fell apart. While Boucher rose rapidly with the Hells Angels, Cazetta founded Rock Machine with his brother Giovanni. Unlike the Hells Angels, Rock Machine did not wear cowls to identify each other, but wore rings with an eagle as a secret sign. Rock Machines Club motto is: "A la vie a la mort". An eagle's head is now used as the official logo.

At first there was peace between the two motorcycle clubs. Police officers believed this was largely due to Cazzetta's ties to the Québec mafia .

Québec Rocker War

In 1994, Cazzetta was arrested at a pit bull rearing station when he was alleged to have imported 11 tons of cocaine . After Cazzetta was put out of business for a while, the Hells Angels began to put pressure on the much smaller club. The main focus was on controlling the drug market in Montreal. Rock Machine then founded an association called The Alliance, which had relationships with the Canadian mafia and comprised a number of independent dealers.

Boucher used so-called "Puppet Clubs", puppet clubs that fought as proxy for the Hells Angels. On July 14, 1994, two members of these clubs were shot dead by Rock Machine allies. A brutal street war that was to last seven years began.

In August of that year, 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers died in a remote-controlled car bomb aimed at Rock Machine . A month later, the first full member of the Hells Angels was shot dead in the parking lot of a shopping mall. In retaliation, nine bombs were detonated at his funeral.

Bandidos

Because of this long-lasting conflict, Rock Machine came to terms with the Bandidos in Texas. In 2000 Rock Machine became part of the Bandidos in a " patch over " and was part of this club for seven years. During this time, many Rock Machine members joined their former enemies from the Hells Angels as not all members became full members of the Bandidos, including Paul Porter, Nelson Fernandes and Bruce Doran. These were part of a Nomads -Charter the Hells Angels Quebec. While Fernandes died of cancer a few months later and Doran returned his colors, only Porter stayed longer in the rocker scene. However, some federal officials suspect that Doran is still active as a rocker and only announced his retirement as a cover-up.

Break with the Bandidos and a new beginning

On April 8, 2006, the so-called " Shedden massacre " occurred , in which eight Bandidos were killed by their own brothers. The bodies were found on a farm in Shedden , Ontario . Subsequent investigations led to the dissolution of the Bandidos Chapter in Canada in October 2007. Some Bandidos members tried to remain, but relations between them and the US Chapters were shaken. In particular, Canadians distrusted their US brothers about their involvement and role in the killings.

The Rock Machine announced its start-up in April 2008 when some disaffected and angry ex-Bandidos met and founded the Rock Machine Canada Nomads. Originally only intended as a provocation against the US Bandidos and their national president Jeffrey Pike, the reactivation developed its own momentum and Rock Machine spread to Canada, the United States and Australia. There are now four chapters in Germany. With the start-up the criminal activities should also be stopped. The club now reserves the right to exclude members who have committed criminal offenses.

On July 21, 2011, ten members entered a Montreal strip club owned by the Hells Angels. The symbolic gesture gave rise to various rumors about a new version of the biker war, which has not yet become a reality.

Germany

In 2010 the aim was to set up a separate chapter in Germany and negotiations were started with the Australians in this regard. In the same year, a probationary chapter was set up, which finally became the first official chapter of the MC in 2011. Thereupon four more chapters were founded.

After a shooting in the bouncer scene in Neu-Ulm on December 16, 2012 with one dead and one seriously injured, the perpetrators were identified as members of the Rock Machine MC. Before that, there was already another dispute between supporters of the Rock Machine and the Bandidos chapter, which is based in Ulm. The members of the chapter are no longer in the MC.

The Rock Machine MC in Germany is divided, so an expelled member took over the official website of the club and posts in its name. Another former member founded his own club called Rock Machine, which has a fake logo (blue instead of red eye).

Symbols

  • 08 in a diamond: stands for the start-up in 2008
  • ALVALM : A la vie a la mort = "As in life, so in death" (club motto)
  • Color: The club's color is a black and white eagle head with a red eye.
  • Founding Father : Founder of the MC on a continent. These members wear a black eagle's head as a side rocker. There are currently only five members as there is no Rock Machine MC in South America yet.
  • National President : Rock Machine leads a country president .
  • Nomads : In contrast to the other clubs, the Nomads are particularly privileged at Rock Machine. These are the "officers" of the club. You can belong to a chapter.
  • No Surrender Crew : In the years when Rock Machine was officially dissolved, there was a kind of secret society in Canada without a cowl and not as an MC.
  • RMF - FRM : Rock Machine Forever - Forever Rock Machine
  • Wehrmacht eagle at 11 : stands for the year the German MC was founded.
  • World Chapter : Five men are currently leading the so-called World Chapters, which are divided into continents. These members wear a golden eagle.

literature

  • Edward Winterhalder : Out in Bad Standings: Inside the Bandidos Motorcycle Club - The Making of a Worldwide Dynasty , Blockhead City Press 2005
  • Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq: The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos - Bikers United Against the Hells Angels Toronto: ECW Press 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rock Machine Chapters. (No longer available online.) Official website, archived from the original on September 13, 2013 ; Retrieved September 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rockmachinemc.ca
  2. ↑ Julian Sher, Marsden, William: Angels of Death; Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire . Knopf Canada, 2006, ISBN 0-676-97730-8 .
  3. ^ A b c Edward Winterhalder , De Clercq, Wil: The Assimilation: Bikers United Against The Hells Angels . ECW Press, 2008, ISBN 1-55022-824-2 .
  4. ↑ a b Rock Machine History. (No longer available online.) Official website, archived from the original on March 16, 2012 ; Retrieved March 25, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockmachinemc.org
  5. ↑ a b Winnipeg Free: Biker gang Rock Machine trying to return to Canada . Canada.com. September 30, 2008. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canada.com
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Highway to Hell . Julian Rubinstein. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. 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. Retrieved February 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.julianrubinstein.com
  7. ^ Martineau, Pierre I Was a Killer for the Hells Angels , McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2003 ( ISBN 0-7710-5492-0 )
  8. ↑ Winterhalder, Edward Out In Bad Standings; Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club , Blockhead City Press, 2005 / Seven Locks Press, 2007 ( ISBN 0-9771747-0-0 )
  9. ↑ Jerry Langton: Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick in the Canadian Hells Angels . John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd . ,, ISBN 0-470-83710-1 .
  10. ↑ Julian Sher, Marsden, William: The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada . Random House, 2004, ISBN 0-676-97599-2 .
  11. ^ Daniel Sanger: Hell's Witness . Viking Canada, 2005, ISBN 0-670-04430-X .
  12. ↑ Cherry, Paul The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels , ECW Press, 2005 ( ISBN 1-55022-638-X )
  13. ^ Giuseppe Valiante: Biker was brewing in Montreal | Canada | News . Ottawa Sun. Archived from the original on March 20, 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. Retrieved February 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ottawasun.com
  14. ↑ a b Peter Hg: "We have learned from history" . In: Bikers News . No. 379 , November 2013, ISSN  1614-9157 , p. 28-31 .
  15. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Quarrel with rockers ends fatally, December 17, 2012
  16. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Rocker War in Neu-Ulm and Ulm ?, April 9, 2013