Police, bikies gearing up for protest poker run

OUTLAW motorcycle gang members say tomorrow's poker run north of Adelaide will further unite former warring parties against tough new anti-bikie laws.

Bikies and police have spent the past week gearing up for tomorrow's Gypsy Jokers poker run through the Barossa Valley.

Up to 400 bikies from clubs including the Rebels, Hells Angels, Finks and the Descendants will ride with the Gypsy Jokers in the event - dubbed the Freedom of Association Protest Poker Run.

A Gypsy Jokers member said organisers expected a smooth ride and no friction between different club members.

"This is just the start of bigger things to come. We are united now so this is the beginning of it," he said.

"While these laws are here we will be up in arms protesting about it."

Under the new laws, members of outlaw motorcycle gangs will be committing a criminal offence by associating with each other.

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Hur aktuellt är detta? Har Bandidos ringt polisen för hjälp?

Förutom Gypsy Jokers och Rebels finns deras klubbar även i Sverige.

THE Rebels motorcycle gang has denied any involvement in the fatal shooting of a rival Bandidos gang member in Geelong.
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AN outlaw motorcycle gang at war with the Bandidos has denied any involvement in the shooting murder of reputed Bandidos enforcer Ross "Rosco" Brand.
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Only two weeks ago, police were forced to provide an escort when more than 200 members of the Bandidos rode into Melbourne, mostly from interstate.
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Two men were shot as they left the Bandidos motorcycle gang headquarters in the Geelong suburb of Breakwater shortly after 6pm (AEDT) yesterday.

A 51-year-old man from Torquay, near Geelong, was flown to The Alfred hospital but later died.

A 34-year-old Geelong West man remains in a stable condition in Geelong Hospital with gunshot wounds.
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A MAN shot in the head in an ambush outside a bikie gang club house in suburban Geelong yesterday has died in a Melbourne hospital.
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THREE bikies have been jailed and another set free today after pleading guilty to burning down a rival gang's clubhouse.

Bandidos chapter president Blair Raymond Thomsen, 35, vice president Ivan Glavas, 48, sergeant-at-arms Kenneth James Whittaker, 33, and non-member John Debilla, 47, were today sentenced over the March 2007 attack on the Rebels' Brisbane headquarters in Albion.
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