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Mass brawl between Schalke and Dortmund fans: 90 arrests!
Violent clashes between fans of Schalke, Dortmund and Cologne near Gelsenkirchen require police intervention.
Mass brawl between Schalke and Dortmund fans: 90 arrests!
A quiet Saturday afternoon near Dortmund turned into a chaotic spectacle: around 400 fans from Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund and 1. FC Köln were involved in a violent confrontation. According to information from sofoot.com This happened after Schalke's away game against Magdeburg when some Schalke supporters activated an emergency brake lever on a train. The locomotive came to a halt in the wilderness, setting off a chain reaction of aggression.
The ensuing clashes required massive police intervention. Officers were able to confiscate numerous items, including boxing bandages, gloves and balaclavas, which indicate an organized hooligan mentality. What was particularly revealing was that 90 Dortmund fans were arrested, while corresponding proceedings were also initiated against Schalke supporters for dangerous interference with rail traffic and bodily harm.
A frightening series
However, the violence among fans is not limited to this incident. There was already an extremely worrying clash in Berlin earlier this year, in which four Schalke fans were seriously injured when they were attacked by ultras from BVB and Rot-Weiss Essen. Loud lefigaro.fr This happened in the early hours of the morning when around a hundred attackers with baseball bats attacked the fans in a real attack.
The injured Schalke supporters, including a bus driver, were treated in hospital. Despite the injuries, the fans continued their way to Berlin to support their team. Schalke 04 clearly condemned the violence in a statement and wished the injured a speedy recovery.
Background of the violence
Such outbreaks are often not spontaneous, but are deliberately planned mdr.de. Fan researchers note that many of these violent perpetrators are driven by a sense of failure in society. They use aggression to find their identity and create a sense of community. Football offers a supposedly suitable framework for this, but it does not represent non-violent alternatives for these fans.
The spiral of violence seems to be getting worse and fears of further clashes remain high. The police are called upon to break the spiral and curb the madness of the hooligan culture before further incidents like those in Dortmund or Berlin repeat themselves.