After the riot of football fans in a special train near the Brandenburg Gransee, the police carried out raids on Tuesday. The search for apartments in several federal states were found, among other things, ball bombs.
- In autumn 2024, a special train with football fans was stopped into Gransee
- Followers of the third division soccer teams Hansa Rostock and Rot-Weiss Essen rioted
- On Tuesday, 33 objects were searched and possible evidence was secured
- 31 people are suspected
- They are accused of breach of the peace, dangerous bodily harm, property damage and dangerous intervention in rail traffic
Federal police officers carried out a large raid on Tuesday morning in connection with a football violence. According to RBB information, around 440 civil servants were in use in the searches of apartments of 31 suspects – including in Berlin and Brandenburg.
The background is an argument between hooligans of the third division clubs Hansa Rostock and Rot-Weiss Essen last autumn. On October 26, 2024 was A special train near Gransee (Oberhavel) in Brandenburg with Essen fans have been stopped by violent hooligans. Masked and aggressive perpetrators then attacked the standing train. There were brawls between the fan groups.
Several slices broke, and there are also arguments outside the wagons. According to the investigation, the property damage on the train amounted to a damage amount of 118,000 euros.
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Ball bombs and exercise grenade found
According to the Federal Police spokeswoman Alina Müller, the fan groups were subsequently investigated and culminated in the raid on Tuesday. In the early morning she started in several objects in North Rhine -Westphalia – including Essen and Oberhausen – and Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania. The premises of a fan project in Essen were also searched by police officers, as well as an object in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Accordingly, mobile phones and documents were confiscated. Pyrotechnics were also found at several locations, as it was said. “We found two ball bombs in Essen and a hand grenade in Rostock,” said a spokeswoman for the federal police on the first results of the investigation. The hand grenade, however, is a “exercise grenade”, from which no danger exposes because it cannot be made sharp.
In addition, a shot gun, a butterfly knife and an air pressure weapon with test mark were found in Essen. In Essen and Oberhausen, the suspected massive resistance to the search had been made, the federal police said.
After months of investigation, the federal police have now executed 33 search resolutions against the 31 suspects on behalf of the Neuruppin public prosecutor’s office. Among other things, they are accused of property damage, dangerous interference with rail traffic, dangerous bodily harm and breach of peace in the particularly severe case.
Appointment for fighting on the train
According to previous investigations by the federal police, fans from Rostock and Essen are said to have arranged themselves to the discussion on the train, as a spokeswoman announced on Tuesday. 780 people would have sat on the train, including families.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) also spoke of an apparently planned excess of violence and demanded criminal consequences. Such events could be life -threatening, especially in rail traffic, according to a message.
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The majority of the suspects are already a record of “violent offenders Sport”. Three right -wing extremists should also be among them. Arrest warrants would initially have not enforced the federal police, it was about ensuring evidence, it said. The measures are the start of further investigations.
The searches took place in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the Brandenburg district of Oberhavel, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin, Rostock, Greifswald, Anklam and Parchim, as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia in Essen, Oberhausen, Bochum and Velbert.
Consequences with Hansa Rostock
After the attack on the train, five supervisory boards from Hansa Rostock had declared their resignation. A red line was exceeded with the attack, it said. Hansa Rostock had distanced himself from the incidents. In the past, Hansa fans had been in the headlines several times.
The Interior Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Christian Pegel (SPD), said that he expects Hansa Rostock to have clear consequences for the perpetrators after the attack. “Again, a small group of criminals who abuse folk sports for their desire for violence has great damage to the club, the city and our country,” said Pegel.
Broadcast: RBB24 Inforadio, 11.03.2025, 8:00 a.m.
