According to experts TT has spoken to, the ruling could have consequences in Sweden.
David Sausdal, associate professor of sociology at Lund University, has been in contact with Bandidos members as a researcher who have bluntly said that if they are not allowed to use their gang vests in Denmark, they will go over to Skåne and do so.
"They meet and know each other. The MC gangs are quite large in Sweden. It's not inconceivable that they think that then we will move to Sweden, or move around Sweden more," he says.
Can be weakened
Kim Moeller, professor of criminology at Malmö University, thinks the effect in Sweden is more difficult to assess.
Bandidos in Sweden, Denmark and the rest of Europe cooperate, so a ban could in a way weaken Bandidos in Sweden, he says.
But he also points out that Danish Bandidos members may appear here more often:
It could also strengthen Swedish Bandidos if some of the most motivated Danish members start going to Sweden more or maybe even move here.
Still operating
Bandidos' defense attorney Michael Juul Eriksen has argued that Bandidos is primarily a motorcycle club with a long history of community. He has also stressed that the motorcycle club has been involved in charitable activities, including fundraising for Ukraine.
But the district court makes a different assessment, partly because of the crime that the members have committed as part of the motorcycle club's activities.
The Bandidos are considered to be one of the gangs in Denmark with the greatest violent capital. The gang Loyal to Familia was banned in Denmark five years ago, but is still active in the country.
In Sweden, work is underway to ban participation in criminal gangs, but new legislation may not be in place until January 2027 because a constitutional amendment is required.
Divided opinions
Kim Moeller believes it is obvious that gang bans have an effect. He believes that after the ban, Loyal to Familia are both less visible and less criminally active.
David Sausdal, on the contrary, sees gang bans as an expensive and complicated symbolic measure with little effect on crime.
They have not been able to be cracked down on. Several reports indicate that they exist and are still involved in various types of serious crime.
