Berlin Bracing For Violence

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There has never been a shortage of brutality between the biker gangs Bandidos and Hell's Angels. But after 70 members of a Berlin club defected to their erstwhile rivals, police in the German capital are bracing for violence.

It's only been a few months since a group of Bandidos allegedly ambushed and assaulted a group of Hell's Angels, their arch-enemies in the biker gang world, in Finowfurt, a small town northeast of Berlin. Investigators and prosecutors say that at least half a dozen Berlin-based Banditos chased down a group of Hell's Angels from the city, resulting in a savage fight.

When all was said and done, a gravely wounded Hell's Angels hanger-on named Enrico K. was lying on the street -- with an axe in his leg. When the police questioned him about what had happened, he attributed his gruesome wound to "a traffic accident."

Read more at http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,675916,00.html

Editor/rider note: Never attempt a wheelie with an axe clinched in your teeth.