Olive branch, or ploy? - Still, some skeptical politicians are calling for the groups to be banned.

Two notorious biker gangs in Germany - Hells Angels and Bandidos - say they will officially end their long-time and occasionally bloody rivalry. Still, some skeptical politicians are calling for the groups to be banned.

Accordingly, many politicians have reacted with skepticism to the gangs' announcement, which comes just days before a meeting of the 16 state interior ministers and the federal interior minister in Hamburg on Thursday and Friday.

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