Hamburg's Interior Senator Andy Grote addressed Hansa Rostock's board of directors with sharp words.
“The fact that the tragic and far too early death of a young police officer (24) from our state riot police is openly greeted with sneering satisfaction is unbearable and a level of contempt that we have never experienced in German stadiums.
Hamburg - For me, the incident represents a new dimension of brutality that should shake and alarm us all, ”wrote Grote.
It goes on to say: “The fact that, of all people, those who take care of our safety day and night, and not least at football games, are so dehumanized and defamed must be particularly embarrassing for you as the board of directors, who work closely and trustingly with the police .
I do not want to imagine what further pain and humiliation these pictures from the Ostseestadion from last weekend must trigger in the relatives of the deceased. "
At the home game of the second division Hansa Rostock against SV Sandhausen last Sunday, spectators in the Ostseestadion had shown a banner with the inscription: "One less, ACAB !!!" The abbreviation stands for All cops are bastards (All cops are bastards).
The statement is supposed to refer to the death of a police officer from Hamburg who, according to the Hamburg Police Union, died at the age of 24 during a course in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after a nightly stress exercise.
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Grote calls on FC Hansa to take “targeted measures against those responsible” and at the same time to send “a clear sign of solidarity to the police officers in our country and the family of the deceased”.
"Anyone who tramples on all the values of sport and humanity has no business in football stadiums," wrote the SPD politician.
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