Justice in Spain demands 13 years imprisonment for Hanebuth

For years, Frank Hanebuth leads the "Hells Angels" of Germany. Then he and his fellow campaigners move to Mallorca where they allegedly commit several serious crimes, including trafficking and pimping.

In the indictment against him and 45 other suspected members of "Hells Angels" in the State Court in Madrid, the prosecutor demanded for Hanebuth 13 years in prison, as a spokesman for Justice on request announced.

The 54-year-old from Hannover and the co-defendants are accused in Spain of drug trafficking, pimping, founding a criminal organization, kidnapping, extortion, trafficking and money laundering. For two alleged leadership members of the gang, two brothers, the prosecutor demanded 38 years and 6 months and 33 years and 6 months in prison. The sum of the required prison sentences for the 46 defendants is 298 years and six months.

The group is said to have acted in Mallorca according to the findings of the investigators from 2009 to 2013 as a criminal organization and committed on the Playa de Palma - the notorious "Ballermann" - numerous serious crimes.

In 2013, Hanebuth was arrested on Mallorca together with 23 other suspected bikers on a finca in Lloret de Vistalegre on the Spanish holiday island. Among the detainees were mainly Germans, but also Turks, Luxembourgers and Spaniards.

After two years behind bars, Hanebuth - longtime president of the now defunct "Hells Angels" in Hannover - was released in July 2015 for a bail of 60,000 euros and under conditions of custody in the maximum security prison in Cádiz. He may leave Spain only temporarily and only with court approval.

Among the defendants are also two Mallorcan police and a member of the National Police Guardia Civil, who face imprisonment between five and a half and seven and a half years.