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On March 21 last year, just over a week after the government shut down Norway to prevent the spread of the infection, Satudarah MC Oslo was founded, according to police.
Since 2018, they have been working to establish themselves in the capital.
At that time, the first department of the motorcycle club in Norway, the Stavanger department, had already existed since 2014.
The Oslo department quickly settled into a yellow clubhouse at Bjørkelangen in Aurskog-Høland, an hour’s drive from Oslo, but after only a few months they were expelled.
THE CLUB ROOM: For a few months last summer, this was the location of the Satudarah motorcycle club, which the police have feared will take hold in Norway. Photo: Frode Sunde / TV 2
ABANDONED: Half a year after Satudarah was fired, there is currently no one living in the room. Photo: Frode Sunde / TV 2
Currently, five people are being tried in the Nedre Romerike District Court for a case of violence and threats in which the prosecution believes they have acted as a criminal group. Three of the men are connected to Satudarah.
According to the prosecution, a man was kidnapped and subjected to intense violence last summer.
All deny guilt, and during Passover they will receive their sentence.
Among the police evidence in the case are records of various chat groups where people they associate with Satudarah talk to each other.
In the talks, the president-designate has shared a TV 2 story, which is about a man who has been sentenced to prison for shooting the doormen of the Blå nightclub in Oslo.
Along with the link to the article, the leader writes that the convicted culprit is “one of us from Oslo.”
Animated phone exchange
They are also writing about a new intelligence law that allows metadata to be stored for 18 months. Members are encouraged to change their phone and SIM cards frequently.
In the chat log, several images of clothes with the Satudarah logo have been found.
During the trial, which ended last week, one of the leading police experts in the Norwegian motorcycle community testified. You do not want your name or photograph published because of the work you do.
Much of the information they presented to the court had never before been known to the public.
Own set of rules
Satudarah is a one percent club. It’s a term some motorcycle clubs use, not something the authorities call them.
One percent clubs and their members define themselves as the one percent of the population who do not want to follow the laws and rules of society. Instead, they have their own set of rules.
After a lengthy trial, Satudarah and her support clubs were banned by the Dutch Supreme Court because their activities posed a threat to public order as well as the citizens’ sense of security.
Satudarah mc
- Satudarah MC is a one percent international motorcycle club established in Moordrecht in the Netherlands in 1990.
- The first seven members were descendants of Malukan. The Maluku region belongs to Indonesia and was colonized by the Netherlands in the 17th century, but later independently in 1950.
- Satudarah means “one blood,” reflecting the club’s membership, which is multi-ethnic, unlike traditional 1 percent motorcycle clubs.
- A summary of Europol from 2019 shows that the club has 54 branches in Europe. This is likely to be reduced after Satudarah and his support clubs were outlawed in the Netherlands by the country’s Supreme Court in 2020.
- There are two full departments in Norway, one in Stavanger and one in Oslo, as well as a prospects department in Kristiansand.
Source: Police
In Norway, the police have feared in recent years that Satudarah will take hold.
According to Kripos, a so-called prospect department at Kristiansand is in a probationary period on its way to becoming full members of the club.
Clear role distribution
Like many other motorcycle clubs, Satudarah’s many departments are built on a hierarchical system. At the top sits a president and below a vice president.
Each department should also have a so-called “sergeant at arms” who is responsible for security and has the authority to discipline members of his own department.
BANNED: Satudarah MC, pictured here outside a court in June 2018, was outlawed as an organization last year in her own home country, the Netherlands. Photo: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen / AFP / NTB
The person in question must also have an overview of the department’s potential conflict image, and in many clubs it is the person in this role who is responsible for the weapons, according to the police chief who testified in court.
– There is extremely strict internal justice in the clubs, with sometimes flagrant violence. Members are often part of activities that put them in conflict with the law, he said during his explanation.
At the foot of the stairs
Under the club president in the hierarchy, departments also have a treasurer who is responsible for club finances and membership. In addition, they have a “route captain”, who takes care of trips and manages practical things like tickets.
Under the direction, the clubs have regular members, and under that again they have “perspectives.” They are at the bottom of the scale and are considered pure work for the department.
Normally, a “prospect” should be available 24 hours a day, and the payoff is that they can later be admitted as a full member.
HANDOUT: This is what the Satudarah vest looks like for those who have the status of a prospect, illustrated here via the Helsingborg department. Photo: Police
MEMBER: And this is what it looks like for a full member. Photo: Police
Under “brochures” you will again find “hooks”. They are not actually affiliated with the department, but they “prowl” to assess whether they are motivated enough to try to be included as “prospects.”
In other words, the hierarchy is similar to what the police recognize from other 1 percent clubs.
Short contracting period
On the other hand, what separates Satudarah from more well-known clubs like Bandidos and Hells Angels is that, according to the police, there is much greater penetration into the organization.
Also, the recruitment period at Satudarah is shorter than at the other one percent clubs.
A third thing that sets Satudarah apart from the rest is that the interest in motorcycles seems to be less at this than at other clubs.
– With Satudarah, we suspect the main goal is profit and being part of a drug scheme. In Norway, this is especially true in the cannabis market because the price of the drug is more expensive here than in other Scandinavian and European countries, according to the police chief.
Satudarah MC’s own rules
THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE BIKER
- Never touch a brother’s lady
- Never steal from a brother
- Never take a brother’s business
- Never betray a brother
- Never question a brother
- Never speak ill of a brother
- Never talk about the club outside the club.
- Never talk to the police
- Never use your club name in your business
- Never use your club name to benefit yourself
- Always show respect for your colors
- Always fight for your colors
- Always respect a brother
- Always protect a brother’s family
- Always be yourself
- Always wear your colors with pride
- Always obey and follow the rules of your club.
- Always speak well of all your brothers
- Always be the brother you say you are
- Always be LOYAL to your club and brothers
He believes that Hells Angels and Bandidos don’t see Satudarah as a full-blown motorcycle club.
– They do not consider them a threat to their markets. At the same time, Satudarah entered a somewhat fortunate moment. Other clubs want to be a bit low because they fear a one percent ban, as has been the case in the Netherlands, he says.
Money in prison
Through the investigation, the police have revealed that a person close to the President-designate of Oslo has transferred various amounts of money to people who are related to Satudarah while they have been in prison.
In the recently concluded trial, the prosecutor Andreas Schei withdrew the demand for punishment for the five defendants. The charges range from 15 months to three years in prison.
The club president’s defense attorney, attorney Trygve Staff, tells TV 2 that he refrains from commenting on this case.
