Grenade Fired Into Biker’s Cell

Mon., Feb. 3, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

An anti-tank grenade was fired into a jail housing members of the Bandidos biker gang early Sunday, injuring one gang member in his cell.

Police said the grenade, fired from a nearby highway, apparently didn’t explode after breaking through the cell window.

The injured biker was identified as Paul Bjoern Andersen, who is being held pending trial in connection with an October attack with anti-tank grenades on the Hells Angels compound in Copenhagen. Two people were killed and 19 injured in that attack.

Police said several people with ties to the Hells Angels were arrested in connection with Sunday’s attack on the jail in Koege, 12 miles south of Copenhagen.

The Hells Angels and Bandidos have been feuding for three years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

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