Bremen/Leipzig (dpa) – In the ongoing dispute over a court-confirmed participation of professional football in additional police costs for high-risk games, Bremen’s Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) wants to seek an exchange with the German Football League (DFL).
He will promptly start the conversation with the new managing director Donata Hopfen, he said with a view to another defeat of the association at the Federal Administrative Court.
“It’s about time that after so many years and the fourth legal defeat in a row, DFL GmbH finally accepted its responsibility and changed course,” said the politician. The Federal Administrative Court had previously rejected a complaint by the DFL, with which the association wanted to allow an appeal for a judgment of a lower court from 2020. (AZ: BVerwG 9B6.21). According to the BVerwG, no appeals are possible against the decision.
The federal state asserted its position in the dispute in several instances. Mäurer emphasized that the Federal Administrative Court had now decided again and finally in favor of Bremen. It is clear that the special police effort on the occasion of commercial high-risk events can be charged to the organizers as a fee.
The Federal Administrative Court ruled in 2019 that the federal states may in principle charge the DFL for the costs of additional police operations. In this case, however, the DFL had not ruled out going to the Federal Constitutional Court in principle.