Bandefolk convicted: Arson, violence and illegal tattoo

the COURT OF FREDERIKSBERG: With calm mine received two LTF members, in the day of their judgment in a case that includes arson, violence against a prison officer and have been inflicting an illegal tattoo.

In the case have both been charged with brandstiftelsen, while only one was indicted for assault and tattooing.

All three of the relationship he has admitted during the trial.

we are talking Here about the 23-year-old Mads Vestergaard, who today got three years in prison. The judgment was appealed to the high court on the spot.

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The other, a 20-year-old LTF's with different ethnic background, got a year in prison in the case of brandstiftelsen, where the police believe that he was the driver of the scooter, as brandstifteren had fled after the night of 20. september in the year had thrown three molotov cocktails into the Café Vik in Vermont.

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To all luck, was the fire quickly quelled, so it did not reach to spread to the rest of the block of flats with residential, home to Café Vik.

Mads Vestergaard carries three distinctive tattoos in the face and neck.

On the neck is tattooed 'TEAM' with common capital letters. The same words are also embossed into the face where the tattoo goes from cheek to cheek with a font that is known, from the Latin american street gangs.

the Team represents a department in the now banned LTF-gang, which remains active despite the ban.

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It was in the Vestre Prison earlier in the year, the attack on the officers took place. Photo: Jonas Olufson

In the letter 'O' on the one cheek, there is also a tattooed LTF, which is prohibited by the LTF-gang is made public by law.

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If you have been tattooing with letters related to the gang after the ban, estimates the police, that it is the continuation of the gang and thus illegal.

According to the indictment is the tattoo applied in the period between 31. december last year, and 15. January of this year.

In sentencing, explained president Christian Lundblad, that the court sees the tattoo to 40 days in jail, which is included in the overall judgment.

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the presiding Judge proposed at the same time, the issue of how forward-looking should deal with the illegal tattoo. This question can be neither prosecutor nor defender, however, answer.

Earlier in the case, he has not wanted to explained about the tattoo, though he well knew it was illegal. He has also not wanted to comment on the link to the LTF-gang.

In relation to the attack on fængselsbetjenten so was assaulted himself earlier in the year in Vestre Prison, where the officer was struck with a filled thermos.

Mads Vestergaard has acknowledged the attack, but has at the same time, not wanted to explain about the incident.

The two bandefigurer sat alone on the dock at today's hearing. Were originally four accused in the case, but the other two, however, were acquitted in the case.

the Duo, however, were not alone in the courtroom. Ten prison guards and four police officers were also in the courtroom. It was the two friends. The one was one of the other two, who had been indicted in the case, but was acquitted.

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