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“The violence against police officers was much worse than on May 1st”
Status: 06.05.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Over 1,000 police officers were needed to stage the game in the fourth league between BFC Dynamo and Energie Cottbus
Quelle: picture alliance/BEAUTIFUL SPORTS/Luciano Lima
The regional league game between BFC Dynamo and Energie Cottbus turns into an orgy of violence. 155 police officers were injured in the riots. Berlin’s Interior Senator calls the club, fans and football association to report. She was horrified.
After 155 police officers were injured in the regional league game between the Berlin club BFC Dynamo and Energie Cottbus (0:2), Interior and Sports Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) expressed outrage. “I absolutely condemn this,” Spranger said. She called on the club, the Berlin Football Association and fan associations to come to her this week to explain. “The club now has to tell us what it wants to do with its fan base. This is tax money that we had to use with 1,000 police officers to provide security.”
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The violence and attacks on police officers were much worse than on May 1, Spranger said. Such outbreaks of violence in stadiums would also put families and children at risk. “If such riots occur, we will take action against them.” Clubs and associations should make clear announcements about what will happen next. She will also discuss this with Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD). Now you have to determine: “How expensive was the whole thing, how was the damage done to the stadium, who is paying for it, how do the fans want to deal with it in the future?”
The game had to be interrupted in the first half
Quelle: picture alliance/BEAUTIFUL SPORTS/Luciano Lima
There were riots in the fan blocks at the game on Saturday. 155 police officers were injured. The police temporarily arrested at least 74 suspects and there were initially 62 reports. Cottbus’ coach Wollitz criticized the lack of security in the stadium, even though the match had been classified as a high-security game.
BFC Dynamo contradicts Cottbus’ coach Wollitz
“I’m used to being insulted, especially here. But the fact that you have to be afraid that stones will be thrown at you during the game, that you will be threatened, is unimaginable in my system in 2024. “It’s no longer aggression, it’s way beyond that,” said Wollitz. If he had played at BFC ten match days before the end, he would never have taken part here: “Because my life and my responsibility towards my family, my players and my friends are more important to me, because when you are threatened like that, you don’t know how far these people go.”
Cottbus coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz
Source: picture alliance/Fotostand/Weiland
The BFC Dynamo contradicted the energy coach on Sunday afternoon. “The claim that stones were thrown at us during the game is without any basis,” says the press release, “both during the warm-up phase and during the course of the game, the guests’ dugout was additionally secured by two stewards.”