No Surrender Motorcycle Club
International outlaw motorcycle club
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No Surrender Motorcycle Club is an international one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club established in the Netherlands. No Surrender was founded in 2013 by Klaas Otto, a former member of the biker gang Satudarah.[2] By 2014, the club claimed over 600 members, and membership exceeded 1,600 in 2022.[citation needed] Its leaders are mainly Dutch Travellers or of Turkish and Kurdish origin.[1]
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| Founded | 2013 |
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| Founded by | Klaas Otto |
| Founding location | Zundert, the Netherlands |
| Territory | Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Kurdistan-Rojava |
| Ethnicity | Multiethnic; in particular Dutch, Turkish, Italians , and Kurdish[1] |
| Membership (est.) | over 1600 worldwide |
| Leader | Captain World Erwin Omaratan / |
On 16 February 2016, Otto announced he had left the club.[3]
In 2014, three members of the group were reported to have traveled to Iraq to fight alongside Kurdish forces in the war against the Islamic State,[4][5] an act which is not in itself a crime, according to authorities in the Netherlands.[6][7]
In June 2015, it was announced that one of the volunteers, Nomad Ron, had died in a traffic accident.[8]
On 13 January 2017 the clubhouse in Emmen was raided by police. According to the authorities, the clubhouse was trading in hard and soft drugs.[9][10] The club expanded to Canada, with members in Alberta/Quebec, and a national chapter in Peterborough, Ontario. On 22 April 2022 the Supreme Court of the Netherlands reaffirmed previous 2019 and 2020 bans on No Surrender in the Netherlands,[11] making it a permanent ban.
On 26 July 2022 an explosion occurred in the 's-Hertogenbosch residence of Gracia K., who had recently started dating former No Surrender leader Klaas Otto.[12]
