After the riots during the third division game between Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden (1-0) last Saturday, the events started. Hansa’s CEO Jürgen Wehlend met the state police on Monday.
The video material should also be evaluated, in which according to club information “the first people were identified”, we had explained in advance. Nothing became known about further contents of the meeting on Monday. It was a confidential conversation that was not only about the events of Saturday, but also about future risk games and the further cooperation, the police only said.
Hansa Rostock did not comment on Monday on request. In the evening, however, Wehlend then took a detailed comment on the events and possible consequences in an interview with the club’s own YouTube channel. “At the moment, the focus is on the clarification, the evaluation of very, very extensive video materials and essentially the identification of perpetrators – I don’t want to call them otherwise. There was already a arrest in this context,” said the 59 -year -old.
Wehlend hopes to avert ghost game
Both Hansa and Dynamo have now been delivered “a catalog of occurrences” from the German Football Association (DFB). Among other things, it shows that “120 pyrotechnic objects were used for the riots – clearly with the aim of deliberately violating people,” as webly explained.
“We have to try to develop initiatives from the stadium in the conversations that are now pending that prevent this in the future.”
– Jürgen Wehlend, CEO of FC Hansa
The board of directors announced a comprehensive processing of the pre -communication at all club levels. He hopes that Hansa will get around a “ghost game”. However, the 59-year-old does not indicate any illusions in this regard: “I still do not rule out that there can be partially and complete editions. We will do everything we can to that it is not convinced that that is that Collective penalties do not lead to success. Others for us.
Hansa pauses at initiative “Association penalties Abolish! “
As a first consequence of the incidents of Saturday, Hansa has active participation in the initiative “Abolish association penalties!” set. There, organized fan scenes and associations from federal to the regional league from the area of the Northeast German Football Association (NOFV) require the consistent abolition of the association law punishment of the use of non-abusive pyrotechnics and their immediate suspension.
“We will no longer actively participate in this initiative, because we completely jeopardized our credibility with what happened on matchday. have that how we all stick to, “said Wehlend.
Taxpayer Association: Club should cover police costs
Both Hansa and Dynamo are likely to be sentenced to a very high fine. In addition, the riots have fueled the debate whether the costs for police operations for risk games should be passed on to the clubs in the future. The federal government of taxpayers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania demands exactly that.
“In view of the excess of violence, which today the so-called ‘fans’ of the two third division soccer teams Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden and with a view to the enormous costs of the police operation associated with it, the federal government of the taxpayers demands Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania the country will immediately create the legal basis in order to invoice these associations such police operations and their follow -up costs Set, “said MV state manager Sascha Mummenhoff from the BDSt.
NDR Reporter Didjureit: Discussions achieve the new level
Overall, there was movement in the topic of dealing with and the prevention of riots through Saturday, says NDR club reporter Jan Didjurgeit: “While in the past there are mostly rioters with each other and then also outside the stadium, we have now had a situation , in which there are also completely innocent and sometimes also in danger if the stadium visit is no longer safe and therefore the peaceful fans prefer stay, then this is the beginning of the end of football as we know it.
Dynamo Dresden criticized Security organs
The Dresdeners had spoken in a message of “a failure of all security organs” immediately after the game. The club also pointed out that luminous torches had already dropped on the square when warming up. Wehlend said: “This scene was completely unacceptable and is also the subject of the educational work. But it was not decisive for what was going on at halftime.” The encounter could only be kicked off with a 28-minute delay due to the riots by chaoting both fan camps, there were numerous injuries.
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Nordmagazin | 24.02.2025 | 7:30 p.m.
