Folders beat BMG trailers
Police are investigating “brute force” against fans
03/06/2022 2:27 p.m
The 2:3 defeat at VfB Stuttgart quickly becomes a minor matter for the Gladbach fans who traveled with them. There is an escalation of violence in the guest block. A video shows folders beating the BMG supporters. The Bundesliga clubs are demanding “complete clarification”, the police are investigating.
A police spokesman confirmed to ntv.de that the Stuttgart police will investigate the violent excesses of the VfB Stuttgart stewards against the fans of Borussia Mönchengladbach. The pictures have already been viewed and the incidents in the Mercedes-Benz Arena will be dealt with from Monday.
They were frightening images that bode ill for the future after two years of fans being absent due to the pandemic. Beating stewards who kicked the Gladbach supporters leaving the block and chased them out of the stadium. Several fans were injured. According to Fanhilfe Mönchengladbach, who made the incident public, this was preceded by a “dispute between two fans” that had already been settled by their own folders.
The two fans got into each other’s hair after the 2: 3, but then they are said to have calmed down again. Then the stewards, an external service provider brought into the stadium by VfB Stuttgart, are said to have started wanting to move the two fans out of the block. As a result, the violence of the folders escalated, as the video published by the fan aid suggests.
Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach made it clear on which side they see the problem. “The pictures we have so far do not speak for an appropriate action by the security service,” said a statement on Twitter: “There is beating, kicking, that is brute force and no de-escalating intervention.”
Like the club’s fan aid, the Bundesliga club demanded a complete clarification of the incidents, while VfB Stuttgart distanced itself in an initial statement “from the violence that can be seen in a video distributed on the Internet”. The clubs have been in exchange since Saturday, and more pictures and videos of the incidents are now being collected, both sides said. VfB is still in the process of getting a “complete picture” of the events in the Mercedes-Benz Arena.
