The Lower Saxony Sender in the 2nd league between Hanover and Eintracht Braunschweig (1-1) was interrupted several times in the first half on Sunday. Tennis balls flew on the lawn, pyrotechnics were ignited and Interior Minister Daniela Behrens was shown in a crosshairs. The police are investigating the fans of 96.
Supervisory Council leader Martin Kind from Hannover 96 massively criticized the events at the Lower Saxony 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.”
There was no reaction from the Ministry by Monday afternoon. However, the mayors of the two cities spoke up. 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.
96 fan help criticizes behavior and statements by the police
After the game, the police had expressed in a message 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 sheet: a direct encounter between rival groups could be prevented as part of the police operation, but the emergency services recorded several crimes as well as various disorders before and during the game.”
The fan aid from Hannover 96 contradicted this in a statement on Monday. In particular, she criticized an admission procedure that was changed at short notice. Only two out of eight inputs have been opened – supposedly “at 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, which was accompanied by numerous fan protests in the stadium, three times each for several minutes in the first 30 minutes.
Smoking pots fly on the lawn
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 – as at the time of the fan protests against the failed investor deal of German football league. Reading on another saying band: “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. In fact, only around 800 Eintracht fans traveled to the state capital in protest.
The spectators in Hanover also protested the measures on Sunday and waived their team during the game. About 800 96-ultras moved to the large counter grandstand instead of tracking the encounter as usual from her fan block in the south grandstand, and disturbed the process from there with numerous actions.
How reacted Minister of the Interior Behrens?
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. After numerous riots and the massive use of pyrotechnics as part of the traditional duel, the SPD politician even threatened to completely rule out guest fans in the future. The interior minister was apparently not in the stadium on Sunday.
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Hello Lower Saxony | 10.03.2025 | 7:30 p.m.
