mourning minute, flickered the image of a bull-necked man on the stadium screen, a giant with an edgy skull, bald and heavy earrings of the cancer late Thomas Haller. Fans of Chemnitzer FC hoisted a huge banner, on which in Gothic font: “rest in peace, Tommy”. To burned Pyrofackeln. Hundreds of young and old followers kept out of solidarity with their scarves in the height, the stadium announcer honored the dead with a few commemorative words. During the game against VSG Altglienicke, the 4:4 out, led by the Chemnitz-based goalscorer Daniel frahn for the home team, in honor of Haller’s, then a T-Shirt that read, “Support your Local hooligans”.
unprecedented
It was a horrible performance, which took place on Saturday afternoon in the third-largest city of Saxony. A has not given it to you according to experts and think tanks working in the German soccer of the top League. One that stirs up even after days of the German Public.
Haller was not any ardent Fan of the Chemnitz football clubs, but a well-known Hooligan and neo-Nazi. He had heard in the 90s, the founders of the group “HooNaRa”, which was practically the same in the title, who do you United: Hooligans, Nazis and racists. With his private company in which he is especially friendly to the extreme-Right workers, he was for many years the security in the Chemnitz stadium is responsible. As a “HooNaRa” in 2007, broke up, supported Haller, the neo-Nazi fan club “Kaotic”, and “NS Boys”. Both are officially banned from the stadium of Chemnitzer FC, but tolerated unofficially.
Fan with restraint
Haller was at the Club known and popular, even the Slo, a local politician of the SPD, described the relationship with him as “fair, straight, apolitical and sincere”. The Club defended the grief minute, first of all, as a “principle of humanity”, at the same time he claimed that it was not an “official” memorial, despite both visual and audible engagement of Fans, coaches, players, and stadium speakers.
After the first local protests centered with a two days delay, the indignation of the whole of Germany over the Club. Politicians from all parties, with the exception of the my AfD referred to the grief minute as a shame, the German football Association, expressed sharp criticism, the main sponsors announced the fourth top-flight club their support.
the Chemnitz city government distanced itself from any racism. Last August, it was not in accordance with the presumed asylum seekers committed murder of a young German in Chemnitz, already for days to come marching-up of right-wing radicals and neo-Nazis, the aufwühlten only Germany but all of Europe is alarmed. Then, too, the Hooligans of the “Kaotic” to the escalation had contributed in a decisive way.
goalscorer Daniel frahn for the home team led to the honor of Haller’s, a T-Shirt that read, “Support your Local hooligans”.
Faced with a cloud of criticism, moved to Chemnitzer FC, then his mind and distanced himself from the honor of the neo-Nazis. The managing Director of the long-of the Bankrupt threatened club had been placed at the Sunday office, on Monday, the Club dismissed the Fanverantwortliche, a press staff and the stadium announcer.
The player Daniel frahn for the home team was fined with a monetary penalty. In the social media, he distanced himself from all the right activities. He didn’t know that the T-Shirt with the “hooligans”print “so deep in the neo-Nazi scene anchored”.
problems For years with Right-wing
in Addition, the Club a criminal complaint against unknown filed. It had been threatened before the game, it was said: It would come to serious riots, should not be admitted to the mourning rally in the stadium. In addition, the Association claimed that the neo-Nazis in the stadium were predominantly come from abroad.
The Chemnitz police contradicted the allegations immediately. Threats had been before the game, no question, but the police have expressed “concerns” to an extremist public.
The Hooligan expert Robert Claus pointed out in an Interview with the “süddeutsche Zeitung” that the Chemnitzer FC have for the past 30 years, there is a Problem with extreme right-wing Fans, and not the “bulwark against racism”, as he constituted recently. Extreme right-wing Ultras, there is the case of many Clubs. Particularly in the situation in Chemnitz was that there was to be any counterweight – left Ultras, for example, the fight against discrimination. Instead of working in the long term with the Fans, throw the Club rather an action round for tolerance or pinsle the Slogan “Chemnitz, neither gray nor brown is” on the team bus. This is pure symbolic politics, the pointless, Claus.
action in Zurich
Finally, it was known that it had come on the last Saturday in at least two other cities to commemorative actions for the Haller: in Brandenburg, Cottbus and in Zurich. Supporters of the Grasshoppers fan group “Blue White Bulldogs” showed in the Letzigrund during the game against the Bernese Young Boys, a banner with the inscription “rest in peace Thomas”. The gesture was certainly not a coincidence: The Zurich and the Chemnitz Ultras have been friends for years, and back each other up sometimes in fights against rival groups of supporters – for instance, against FC Zürich.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 12.03.2019, 23:12 PM
