Interior Minister in sight
For carnival parade: insults and beaker on Behrens
Updated on 03.03.2025 – 12:23 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Clear message: A week before the Lower Saxony Sendersby, football fans Daniela Behrens devote numerous posters at the Braunschweig carnival. The trouble about the interior minister is great.
Exactly a week is still until the explosive Lower Saxony Sendersby between Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig on March 9th. The harbing of the duel on Sunday was also clearly recognizable at the carnival in the Löwenstadt.
Numerous posters could be seen. However, not addressed to the upcoming opponent, but to Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD). “Without fans no derby”, “Daniela, piss off”, “Behrens must fall”, “buried populist politicians” or “freedom for the curves” could be read on it. The poster holders wore a Behrens mask with a clown nose. Occasionally “Behrens out” calls mingled with carnival music.
In the early afternoon, the police reported another incident. On the Bohlweg, a person tried to throw a mug on the interior minister. An uninvolved third had become wet. The police have taken measures against the thrower. Shortly afterwards, according to the officials, there were further deserts against Behrens from the mass. The police identified the interferers and initiated criminal proceedings.
The reason for the annoyance on Behrens: In the past few months, the Interior Minister has been instrumental in enforcing the reduction of the guest fankonentent in the Lower Saxony Senderbies. Even at the upcoming duel, the guest block in the Heinz von Heiden Arena in Hanover can only be utilized 60 percent. Only around 2,500 Braunschweig fans may be there. The Hanover police department had ordered this.
Because of the repeated riots before, during or after the games between Braunschweig and Hanover, Behrens had even spoken out for a complete exclusion of the guest fans last year. Already at the first leg in Braunschweig, only 1,260 instead of 2,100 96 supporters were allowed to buy a ticket.
Fans had demonstrated against the derby measures. For the game on Sunday, the BTSV Ultras called up to the boycott. Last Thursday, around 500 Braunschweig supporters were under the motto “against guest fan restrictions – fan culture unmistakable!” marched through Hanover. They moved from the main train station to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, where Behrens is based.
When Behrens drove across the Altstadtmarkt on a motif car on a motif car on a motif car on a motif car together with Mayor Thorsten Kornblum, it was now loud again in the Löwenstadt. Shortly afterwards the fans pulled off.