After around 3,500 HSV fans marched through St. Pauli on Friday before the start of the Hamburg city derby, according to the police, clashes broke out between Ultra fans of FC St. Pauli and the police in front of the Millerntor Stadium. She took several people into custody.
With water cannons, cavalry squadrons and riot police, the officials tried to keep the two fan camps away from each other and thus prevent riots. Since it was a risky game, the security precautions in Hamburg had been strengthened. According to the police, during the march of the HSV fans from the Altona balcony over the Reeperbahn to the stadium, pyrotechnics were occasionally burned off, otherwise it was peaceful. At the Millerntor Stadium there was almost a collision between HSV and St. Pauli supporters: around 150 to 200 St. Pauli fans dressed in black and masked with red scarves rushed towards the HSV fans. However, the police were able to stop this. They are assigned to the “Rotsport St. Pauli” group.
FC St. Pauli criticizes the police
According to the NDR 90.3 police reporter, the police ran into the crowd several times to grab some of the masked St. Pauli supporters. Several people fell to the ground and were arrested. An Internet video shows a St. Pauli fan lying on the ground being beaten by a police officer. FC St. Pauli tweeted that several people were injured in a massive police operation. In view of the available videos and eyewitness reports, the urgent question of proportionality arises,” said the club. FC St. Pauli is demanding clarification from the police, said club spokesman Patrick Gensing.
Some fans will be arrested by the police on Friday.
Hamburg police want to investigate the case
The Hamburg police responded on Twitter and wrote: “Parts of this group were taken into custody. A video circulating on the Internet shows such a detention, in which a police officer uses coercion in the form of physical violence.” The background is not yet clear. Police spokeswoman Sandra Levgrün commented on this in the evening: The video obviously shows the detention of a subgroup of St. Pauli fans who had previously tried to attack the HSV fans: “We will certainly find out why the colleague had to use direct force in the situation can clarify afterwards, even if it was proportionate.”
Police spokeswoman: “Such situations do not look nice”
Levgrün added: “Such situations don’t look nice. It has something to do with physical coercion, with direct coercion that we use at the point. And these people put up resistance. In this respect, the situations look ugly, that’s also for them The police aren’t nice, but they have to be. We can’t just let them go just because we feel resistance.” The direct coercion of the police must be enforced, according to Levgrün. “And that’s what we do, and then there are also pictures that don’t look particularly good.”
The game, which FC St. Pauli won 3-0, was the first city duel in two and a half years without corona restrictions.
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