Google Translated from German
The former Bandidos boss Aykut Ö. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for participating in a shooting. Before starting the sentence, however, he avoided – now he is on the run.
It’s January 4, 2019, a Friday, shortly before 2 p.m. Several emergency calls are received at the control center of the Cologne police : shots are said to have been fired in the city center, in the immediate vicinity of the main train station. The police forces, including heavily armed officers, are quickly at the scene and are able to arrest one of the two shooters: The person arrested is Orhan A., then 29, a member of the Hells Angels rocker gang .
The second shooter is initially on the run, but can be found in the course of the investigation: It is Aykut Ö., The former Cologne boss of the local Bandidos chapter.
Submachine guns and Molotovs: rocker war in Cologne
The two warring gang members had gotten into an argument in the office of a tax advisor not far from Breslauer Platz, the argument shifted to the door. Outside both opponents fire at each other, nobody is injured.
On the same day there was another shooting in Cologne – this time in the Buchheim district, when members of the Bandidos opened fire with submachine guns on the “Joker’s” café, where Hells Angels were staying at the time of the attack. The café had already been attacked a few years earlier. At that time, the perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails at the shop, which was run by Ö.’s rival Orhan A.
The start of imprisonment was postponed again and again
In September last year, Aykut Ö. Sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for illegally carrying a firearm before the regional court in Cologne. Almost a year in which the former Bandidos boss had been in custody was credited to him. He should serve the rest of his prison sentence in the open execution of the JVA Euskirchen – has started Ö. but never his prison sentence.
“The judgment against the convicted person has been legally binding since March 18, 2021”, explains Ulrich Bremer, the spokesman for the Cologne public prosecutor’s office on request, but had Ö. and his lawyer repeatedly requested postponement of his arrest: “He is entitled to this right of application under the Code of Criminal Procedure,” said Bremer, “one of these applications had to be complied with for medical reasons.”
Lumbago as an alleged reason for postponement
As the “image” wants to know from investigators, Ö would have. claiming, among other things, the coronavirus to be ill or lumbago to have suffered. Chief Public Prosecutor Bremer did not want to confirm this information. What is certain, however, is that the 34-year-old Bandido did not appear when he returned to prison on June 1st: “That is why an arrest warrant is now being used to search for him,” says Bremer. It is also currently being checked whether one can Ö. could advertise a manhunt throughout Europe, as it is possible that the Cologne native with roots in Turkey could have gone abroad.
Ö is shown on his Instagram profile. with expensive, diamond-studded watches, sports cars and proudly in the habit of his club. Ö had lived. together with his wife and two children at an upscale address in Cologne’s Rheinauhafen. The couple financed this luxury, among other things, by cheating on a Swiss businessman: Ö.’s wife had passed off her two children as his to the Swiss woman with whom she had a relationship. In fact, however, was Ö. the father and with his wife collected the support money for the two cuckoo children. The wife was sentenced to two years probation for this fraud.
Now a closed enforcement threatens
But now the luxury life should be over for good: Through his escape, the bandido gambled away the accommodation in the open prison, which would have allowed him certain freedoms during his imprisonment: “In the event of his arrest, the convicted person should serve the sentence in the closed prison” , explains Chief Public Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer.
For that, Ö would have to. but now to be caught first. And that the fugitive will not make this easy for the authorities can be seen if you take a look at his Instagram account. On his last post from 2019, Ö commented. in words: “You want to see me fall – I’ll show you how to fly.”
Rumor has it that the Bandido has actually flown out – to Spain.
