This is revealed in a recent ruling from the Borgarting Court of Appeal. This is the second time that the question of whether the MC club should be banned by law has been dealt with in court. – Necessary In 2021, there was a new law that opened the door to prohibiting criminal associations. The first time the law was tried in court was in the spring of 2023. The police and the state attorney in Oslo wanted to ban Satudarah (SMC). The prosecution believed that the so-called 1 percent club’s main purpose was to commit crime. The MC club itself refused this, and was upheld in the district court. The judgment stated that it is not necessary to ban the MC club in order to prevent serious crime. In a unanimous ruling, Borgarting now reverses and bans the MC club in Norway. – Overall, and seen in the light of the fear capital Satudarah has in Norway and internationally, and the need to combat serious crime, the Court of Appeal believes that the ban is necessary in a democratic society, the ruling states. news has not succeeded in getting a comment from the lawyers Usama Ahmad or John Christian Elden, who have represented the MC club in court. Fear of conflicts The appeal case lasted three days in court. SMC has claimed that they no longer exist in Norway and that the case was “without merit”. They therefore believed that the appeal case had to be rejected or raised. The new ban means that “anyone who participates in, recruits members for or otherwise continues the activity of Satudarah can be punished according to Section 199 of the Penal Code”, the ruling states. Usama Ahmad and John Christian Elden represented the MC club in court. Photo: Ingrid Emilie Waaler / news Internationally, the so-called 1% club is notorious for drug activity, violence and other organized crime. The police have kept a close eye on SMC since they tried to settle in Eastern Norway in 2018. They feared that the establishment could, among other things, lead to conflicts with other criminal circles. The stabbing at Solsiden in Lillestrøm in December 2022 and the shooting at the National Theater in Oslo in January last year are part of a long series of cases that the police believe can be linked to the Satudarah MC. When the issue of a ban was dealt with in the district court, the former president of the club stated that they were an association where the MC interest was cultivated. news has investigated how many of the well-known members in Oslo own motorcycles. Of the 12 people who will form the core of the MC club, only three are listed in the vehicle register with motorcycles. It was State Attorney Ingelin Hauge who brought the cases to court. news has not succeeded in getting a comment from Hauge. Tip news’s crime group: Do you have information about this case or other crime cases? Contact news’s crime group. You can tip us off by e-mail or through news’s encrypted notification service. Here you can tip us anonymously. We also treat all tips confidentially, in line with the Vær varsom poster’s rules on source protection.
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