Dresden sets signs and locks out fans
After the severe riots by so-called supporters at the away game against the 1. FC kaiserslautern, the relegation-threatened second-division club, will be playing FC erzgebirge aue (10. Marz), eintracht braunschweig (28. March) and the 1. FC union berlin (12. – 15. April) to do without their own appendices. "As an association, we are on very thin ice and we can only pull the cart out of the mud together," said president andreas ritter.
The decision by the sg committees was made late tuesday evening, four days after the betzenberg riot. "We have analyzed the issue in detail. We repeatedly have incidents with fans at away games that we can’t influence and most of which can’t be attributed to the dresden environment," explained ritter.
At the betzenberg, so-called supporters of the saxons had burned off massive amounts of pyrotechnics during the 0:3 defeat. They had also tried to storm a neighboring block. After the game, groups of dresden fans attacked police officers at the exhibition center and damaged four buses with loud supporters as well as police vehicles. The incident caused property damage of 70,000 euros.
Now dynamo is cracking down again in its desperate fight against the rioters. Already on 27. November 2011 at the FC st. Pauli, the saxons had started without their own fans. At that time as a consequence of the incidents at the cup match at borussia dortmund. "The events in kaiserslautern were also strongly criticized in the auswartsfanscene. Eyewitnesses reported seeing fan groups in kaiserslautern that hadn’t been to the stadium in dresden for years," explained ritter.
In the next few days, the club wants to enter into a dialogue with its supporters and discuss the further course of action. A charter for the self-regulation process is to be drawn up and the fan department is to be staffed up in order to be able to implement the targeted measures. In addition, the club will initiate active criminal prosecution and involve a lawyer and the public prosecutor’s office in dresden for this purpose.
The new measures are an attempt to salvage the club’s badly tarnished reputation and to take themselves out of the firing line. Of course dynamo has no influence on who goes where and when. But if the tickets are not sold through the club, he can not be held liable. Everyone who appears as a dynamo supporter in aue, braunschweig and berlin comes as a private person. Whether this will bring peace to the club remains to be seen. After all, there are more away games on the program.
The exclusion hits the peaceful and fair-minded fans, for whom dynamo is also known, hard. Both the saxony derby in aue, and the party in berlin around the 60. Birthday of dynamo they remain auben before.
Auben before is the whole club at the DFB cup. However, the club intends to take action against this decision by the german fubball federation. "We have agreed to appeal because we believe that the issue of liability without fault continues to be a major problem for the clubs. For this reason, we will continue the process in order to bring about a clarification," explained ritter.
After the second-round cup match at hannover 96, dynamo dresden was banned from next season’s cup competition by the DFB sports court for the incidents. Police recorded a total of 41 offences at the match, with nine injured and three arrested. Hanover was sentenced to a fine of 70 000 euros.
