No Surrender Motorcycle Club
No Surrender Motorcycle Club is an international outlaw motorcycle club established in the Netherlands. No Surrender was founded in 2013 by Klaas Otto. By 2014, the club claimed over 600 members, and membership exceeded 1600 in 2018. The leaders are mainly Dutch trailer residents or of Turkish,Kurdish origin.[2]
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| Founded | 2013 |
|---|---|
Membership | 1000+ Members World
Netherlands (main) Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon, United Kingdom, Thailand, Bosnia, Suriname, Georgia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States of America |
Key people | Henk kuipers, Ayhan bilkoc[1] |
| Website | http://www.nosurrendermc.com/ |
On 16 February 2016, Otto announced he had left the club.[1]
In 2014, three members of the group were reported to have traveled to Iraq to fight alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Iraq and Syria,[3] an act which is not in itself a crime, according to authorities in the Netherlands.[4][5]
In June 2015, it was announced that one of the volunteers, Nomad Ron, had died in a traffic accident.[6]
On January 13, 2017, the clubhouse in Emmen was raided by police. According to the authorities, the clubhouse was trading in hard and soft drugs.[7][8]
References
- 'Oprichter Klaas Otto verlaat motorclub No Surrender' (Dutch), nu.nl
- "No Surrender MC". No Surrender MC. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- Fredericks, Bob (15 October 2014). "Outlaw bikers fighting ISIS in Iraq". New York Post.
- "Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State". Yahoo News. AFP. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- "Badass Dutch Biker Gang Fighting ISIS in Iraq". New York magazine. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- "Dutch biker who survived fighting Isil killed by tram". The Daily Telegraph. AFP. 5 Jun 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- "Inval bij clubhuis No Surrender in Emmen".
- "Justitie: No Surrender broeinest van drugshandel en geweld".