FC Hansa Rostock identified a suspect in the course of dealing with the banner affair at the home game against SV Sandhausen. As the second division football club announced on Wednesday, the club has already communicated its findings to the state police. In addition, the corresponding video material was handed over to the responsible authorities for their further investigations and initiation of proceedings. In addition, Hansa has already initiated a stadium ban proceedings against the person in question, the club announced.
In the Sandhausen game a banner with the inscription: "One less, ACAB !!!" was shown in the Rostock Ostseestadion.
The abbreviation stands for All cops are bastards (All cops are pigs).
The statement relates to the death of a Hamburg police officer who, according to the Hamburg Police Union, died at the age of 24 after a nocturnal stress exercise during a course in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
"Significantly tightened controls"
Due to the criticism of the banner, FC Hansa had previously announced stricter measures against the club's ultras.
"We will tighten the control of banners considerably," said CEO Robert Marien of the "Bild" newspaper (Wednesday).
"It must be completely undisputed for everyone that such inhuman banners represent border crossings in every respect."
"We are currently in the process of tearing down everything that we have painstakingly built up in recent years with our asses again within a few weeks," criticized Marien in the "Bild" sharply.
It must be clear to everyone that such topics "represent an enormous damage to the image and cause dangerous unrest that will subsequently be transferred to the sporting sector at some point."
As a member association at FC Hansa, they want “our members and fans to get involved and actively help”, emphasized the 40-year-old Marien.
But: “Anyone who helps to shape things also bears responsibility.
If you do not live up to this responsibility, it inevitably has consequences. "
Hamburg's Interior Senator Andy Grote had previously 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. For me, the incident represents a new dimension of brutality that should shock and alarm us all, ”wrote Grote.
It went 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 shameful 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. "
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. In the meantime, the DFB control committee is also investigating FC Hansa Rostock.
After the game against Sandhausen, a second incident became known.
According to the Federal Police, a soldier in uniform was insulted by a Hansa Rostock supporter in the Rostock main station and then spat in the face.
The soldier was out and about with a family member in the train station on Sunday morning when a male from a larger group of Hansa fans approached them threateningly and with raised hands, said the federal police.
Then it came to the crime.
The federal police are now looking for witnesses to the incident.