The discussion about Cologne fans’ knife choreo in the game against Düsseldorf has no end. NRW Interior Minister Reul also criticizes the club.
Actually, the 1. FC wanted Cologne On Tuesday evening with its traditional carnival session, the Jecke heralds time. But since Sunday everything has been all about the tastelessness of the derby choreography from the FC fan scene: the representation of a figure that the goddess of happiness Fortuna holds a knife to the neck, causes indignation and outrage-especially from politics.
As a victim, Henriette Reker could have emphasized her own fate. But the mayor of Cologne, who was seriously injured in a knife attack almost ten years ago, looked at the development in society. She spoke of “ignorance” of those responsible for FC.
“I can understand dismay”
After all, they had admitted that against the derby Fortuna Düsseldorf In the south curve, a huge banner was unrolled that was not “only” seen for the 50,000 spectators in the stadium, but for all interested parties via TV broadcast.
Managing Director Christian Keller and Co. had waved through the choreography, although the motive did not promise them. “We saw nothing discriminatory and also no call to violence,” said Keller, it was “a comic representation of two fantasy figures”. But those responsible had apparently misjudged the effect. “If the motif dismissed one or the other, I can understand that,” admitted Keller, but the aspect of security was more important.
Reul speaks of “scandal”
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul described this attitude of Cologne bosses as the “next scandal” that the “thing” was “also” played down “. Those responsible, in particular basement, in whose business also the department football– and fan culture falls, according to Reul should “intervene”, so prohibit the poster.
Above all, Reker emphasized the fatal ignorance, which conveys an approval of such a choreography in restless time. “We are currently experiencing a number of attacks, including knife attacks, and many people in our country are afraid,” she said: “It would be appropriate and necessary to prevent such motifs and not to promote.”
It is unclear when the Cologne fans presented the motif of choreography and how far they were in the preparations. Such a production takes up a lot of working hours – and it costs a lot of money. Regardless of this, the management should have confronted a confrontation with the fans – even if it has always avoided it and a ban might have been provoking violence or other non -assessing reactions.
“If the rivalry is supposed to take place on the pitch, you have to make concessions in another place. Regardless of whether you like it or not,” said Keller: “If I would like a motif, it would be another. But I can live with it that the only critical complaint is based on such a derby. “
