After the riots during the third division game between Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden (1-0) last Saturday, the FCH took the first consequences. The Mecklenburg hope to avoid a ghost game. There has already been a arrest.
“At the moment, the focus is on the clarification, the evaluation of extensive video materials and essentially also the identification of perpetrators – I don’t want to call them otherwise. There was already a arrest in this context,” said Hansa Rostock’s CEO Jürgen Wehlend on Monday evening in Interview on the club’s own YouTube channel.
In the morning he had met with the state police. It was a confidential conversation that was not only about the events of Saturday, but also about future risk games and further cooperation, the police said.
“120 pyrotechnic objects were used”
Both Hansa and Dynamo have now been delivered “a catalog of occurrences” from the German Football Association (DFB). Among other things, it shows that “120 pyrotechnic items were used for the riots – clearly with the aim of deliberately violating people,” as the 59 -year -old explained.
“It should not be underestimated that we are on probation, also due to the events last season with 600,000 euros.”
– Jürgen Wehlend, CEO of FC Hansa
The board of directors announced a comprehensive processing of the pre -communication at all club levels. He hopes that Hansa will get around a “ghost game”. However, the 59-year-old does not indicate any illusions in this regard: “I still do not rule out that there can be partial and complete editions. We will do everything to do so that we are not convinced that such Do not lead to success. “
Nevertheless, it should “not be underestimated that we are on probation, also due to the events last season with 600,000 euros,” said Wehlend. “At this point, we still managed to avert the partial exclusion of viewers.”
The club now has to try “in the conversations that are now pending to develop initiatives from the stadium that prevent this in the future. Because if we do not regulate it, others regulate it for us. And so far it must not go. “
Hansa pauses at initiative “Association penalties Abolish! “
As a first consequence of the incidents of Saturday, Hansa has active participation in the initiative “Abolish association penalties!” set. There, organized fan scenes and associations from federal to the regional league from the area of the Northeast German Football Association (NOFV) require the consistent abolition of the association law punishment of the use of non-abusive pyrotechnics and their immediate suspension.
“We will no longer actively participate in this initiative, because we completely jeopardized our credibility with what happened on matchday. have what we all stick to, “said Wehlend.
Taxpayer Association: Club should cover police costs
Both Hansa and Dynamo are likely to be sentenced to a very high fine. In addition, the riots have fueled the debate whether the costs for police operations for risk games should be passed on to the clubs in the future. The federal government of taxpayers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania demands exactly that.
“In view of the excess of violence, which today the so-called ‘fans’ of the two third division soccer teams Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden and with a view to the enormous costs of the police operation associated with it, the federal government of the taxpayers demands Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania the country will immediately create the legal basis in order to invoice these associations such police operations and their follow -up costs Set, “said MV state manager Sascha Mummenhoff from the BDSt.
NDR Reporter Didjureit: Discussions achieve the new level
Overall, there was movement in the topic of dealing with and the prevention of riots through Saturday, says NDR club reporter Jan Didjurgeit: “While in the past there are mostly rioters with each other and then also outside the stadium, we have now had a situation , in which there are also completely innocent and sometimes also in danger if the stadium visit is no longer safe and therefore the peaceful fans prefer stay, then this is the beginning of the end of football as we know it.
Dynamo Dresden criticized Security organs
The Dresdeners had spoken in a message of “a failure of all security organs” immediately after the game. The club also pointed out that luminous torches had already dropped on the square when warming up. Wehlend said: “This scene was completely unacceptable and is also the subject of the educational work. But it was not decisive for what was going on at halftime.” The encounter could only be kicked off with a 28-minute delay due to the riots by chaoting both fan camps, there were numerous injuries.
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Nordmagazin | 24.02.2025 | 7:30 p.m.
