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Fans in the Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg: fans ignite, the club pays - that's how it was, and that's how it will stay
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The German Football Association (DFB) may continue to impose fines on clubs for the behavior of their supporters and spectators.
The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe decided that the practice would not violate any fundamental principles of the legal system.
The penalties are to be assessed as a purely preventive measure, this is also permissible through no fault of the clubs.
The regional league club FC Carl Zeiss Jena, who wanted to have the question clarified in principle - and was now defeated in the last instance, had sued.
(Ref. I ZB 54/20)
The legal and procedural rules of the DFB stipulate that the clubs are liable for incidents in the stadium area.
Jena, at that time still in the third division, should pay a total of almost 25,000 euros for disruptions to two home games and one away game in 2018.
The club was unsuccessful before the competent arbitration tribunal.
With the decision of the BGH, this arbitration award is now valid.
sak / dpa