The Lower Saxony Sender between Hanover and Eintracht Braunschweig had to be interrupted several times. Tennis balls flew, pyrotechnics were ignited and Interior Minister Daniela Behrens was shown in a crosshair. The police are investigating the fans of 96, the fan aid defends itself.
Supervisory Council leader Martin Kind from Hannover 96 has massively criticized the events at the derby. The fact that fans of the club showed the head of the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior Daniela Behrens (SPD) on a poster in a crosshairs should be “fully rejected. That is not possible,” said Kind on Monday. “The active fan scene abuses the Bundesliga football platform. You should use your mind.”
Behrens: Clubs leave “violent minority too much scope”
Behrens himself did not respond to the poster in a statement on Monday. However, she generally criticized the handling of the football clubs with many organized fan scenes: “A violent minority is left too much scope.”
“Unfortunately, the organized fan scenes have not yet recognized self -reflection and departure of violence and riot.”
– Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens
She said about the course of the game on Sunday: “Derbys between Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig are not possible without a massive police operation. Unfortunately, the organized fan scenes have not yet recognized self -reflection and departure of violence and riot.”
The “excessive use of pyrotechnics” and the endangerment of other spectators and both teams show “that these rioters are not concerned with supporting their team with peaceful support,” said Behrens. “Rather, this group is primarily about committing violence and riot. That has nothing to do with sports spirit.”
Mayor see red line crossed
Previously, the mayors of the two cities had already spoken out. Hanover OB Belit Onay (Greens) told the NDR that he saw a red line exceeded. That is the absolutely wrong way to get to the fans. He didn’t want to see something like that in Hanover. Braunschweig’s mayor Thorsten Kornblum (SPD) also called it unacceptable to personally threaten the minister. That a shame to German football.
After the game, the police had announced that it could only prevent “by using simple physical violence” that some 96 fans “penetrate the guests in the south”. Therefore, it is a “mixed balance” overall.
96 fan help criticizes behavior and statements by the police
Hannover 96 fan help contradicted the police presentation in a statement on Monday. In particular, she criticized an admission procedure that was changed at short notice. Only two out of eight entrances were opened – supposedly “on the order of the police leadership”, as the fan aid from the Ordnung Service claims to have learned. Therefore, there was “a considerable backlog of several hundred fans”.
“From the point of view of Fanhilfe Hannover, the entire scenery was chaotic, but consistently peaceful. There can therefore be no question of a stadium storm,” said Paula Mundt from Fanhilfe Hannover. According to video material, it should be noted that “the Hanover police can never be supported from their press release”.
Police investigated fans of Hannover 96
Already on Sunday afternoon, the police announced an investigation against Hannover 96 football fans for the crosshairs. The proceedings were “initiated ex officio for threats”, according to a statement by the police.
Referee Matthias Jöllenbeck had interrupted the encounter three times for several minutes in the first 30 minutes. First of all, 96 fans on the back straight a saying band rolled out with the inscription “Ten percent guest control”, followed by a poster on which it was read: “We can also have cross-border measures”. A little later, smoking pots flew on the lawn, Jöllenbeck sent the teams to the sidelines in front of the coaching benches in the tenth minute. After six minutes it continued. The Hanover fans then showed the crosshairs in the stands. Shortly afterwards, tennis balls flew on the lawn. Another saying band said: “Guest controls are not your game ball”.
Smokes on the lawn of the arena in Hanover in the game 96 against Braunschweig.
Protest against limited Guest control
The duels of the two rival clubs have repeatedly occurred in recent years. The police had therefore prescribed a partial exclusion for guest fans. The block with the Braunschweig supporters was only a maximum of 60 percent. Already for the first leg, the Braunschweig surprisingly won 2-0, a partial exclusion of the away fans had been arranged on the initiative of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and thus reacted to the incidents in previous derby.
Both fan camps are responsible for these restrictions, which wants to take a more severe manner. The SPD politician had even threatened to complete guest fans in the future.
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NDR television | Lower Saxony 18.00 | 10.03.2025 | 6:00 p.m.
