A large-scale operation on Wednesday involving over 700 police officers including special forces is still underway. Dozens of flats and shops in North Rhine-Westphalia in areas with a heavy Hells Angels presence have been searched.
Police in Cologne performed a raid on the clubhouse of the Hells Angels biker gang, using a specially modified armoured vehicle, and uncovered a stash of weapons and money.
After a pet chihuahua went missing from the cabin of a truck in Leipzig at the start of May, 154 Hells Angels have offered to help find the dog, German media report.
The funeral for murdered Hells Angels boss Aygün Mucuk on Wednesday is expected to draw hundreds of fellow biker gang members from inside and outside of Germany, putting police on alert.
More than 900 German police, tax and customs investigators raided Berlin's biggest brothel, charging it is linked to the Hells Angels biker gang, and making six arrests, authorities said on Thursday.
A Spanish judge freed on bail Monday a German suspected of being a top leader of the Hells Angels biker gang on money-laundering and prostitution-related charges, a judicial source said.
Members of the Night Wolves Russian biker gang, reputed to be close to President Vladimir Putin, commemorated the end of the Second World War in Berlin on Friday.
A street battle between the Hells Angels and Bandidos biker gangs in Düsseldorf on New Year's Eve left a passer-by gravely wounded by a bullet in the chest.
Ten bikers and an accomplice appeared in a Berlin court under heavy police protection on Tuesday, accused of shooting a man in front of a betting shop's security cameras in a case where the police fell short.
Organized criminals are increasingly active in Germany, with the mafia as well as biker and international gangs making headway in the country, according to a government report.
Displaying the symbols of notorious motorcycle gangs the Hells Angels and the Bandidos is forbidden across Germany, but that ban has now extended to the internet.
Members of the Hells Angels gang are seen as violent and secretive, but according to one former member their lives are governed by strict rules - including no buses or alcohol.
The German-born, European head of the Hells Angels motorbike gang was arrested in raids carried out by Spanish police on Tuesday. Officers found him in his Majorcan villa.
A 40-man murder squad is investigating the death of a Hells Angels biker whose body was found on Tuesday by a woman out for a walk in southern Germany. The 49-year-old had been shot to death on Monday evening.
Police say they foiled a murderous revenge attack by one biker gang on another when they stopped three Scandinavia-based men heading for Germany equipped with explosives, detonators and bullet-proof vests.
Berlin police have warned that biker gangs could use more guns and explosives as they fight for survival after a crackdown by authorities. Police also fear that Scandinavian organised crime networks may get involved.
A German court has jailed a top Hells Angel for more than four years for a series of crimes including human trafficking and grievous bodily harm. His testimony sparked raids across the country and a hunt for a body cemented into a building.
The head of a Berlin Hells Angels gang is in an artificial coma in hospital - under 24-hour armed police guard after being shot six times on Sunday morning.
German police carried out another massive raid against biker gangs on Thursday morning, sending around 1,000 police officers to more than 70 addresses in and around Berlin – and special forces to one clubhouse.
More than 500 police officers raided the Berlin city’s Hells Angels chapter early on Wednesday morning – in a hurried operation after police sources tipped off the gang.
The German Hells Angels leader whose house was raided last week by police abseiling from a helicopter has complained that his property was damaged – and was given room for his complaints in the country’s biggest newspaper.
