First and foremost, TSV 1860 Munich will be against Energie Cottbus (2 p.m., Grünwald Stadium) on Saturday for points. But there is a long working day for the organizer, for the police, for the police, for security forces and scenic fan projects, because the game is entitled to the “Risk Game” label. In the past few months, many third division games have actually created the impression that increased safety precautions are needed bitterly. Sixty fans were also in focus several times over the course of the season, especially when playing away.
The association does not want to comment on request, neither for its own knowledge nor on reporting on the followers. If you ask fans directly, the impression arises: it actually happens more than usual, albeit rarely directly in the stadium; However, the number of reports on these incidents increases even more. “And sometimes they are very improper,” as a long -time away driver finds. There is also the impression that increased safety precautions sometimes have escalating effects. In other cases, the confrontation is simply shifted, for example on Friday a week ago when fans of Bayern were intercepted by Löwen supporters for a fight-after a regional league game of the Bayern-U23.
The incidents in Saarbrücken on January 18 are an example of how quickly fronts can harden. At the moment, the public prosecutor’s office is still investigating an official who is said to have kicked a sixty fan on a staircase from behind at the Saarbrücken train station. “We have already been received in an enemy atmosphere,” says an eyewitness, and officials were waiting at the platform with three barking dogs. One of the dog handlers appeared very aggressively right from the start. A drunk fan called “ACAB” several times, the abbreviation for “all cops are bastards”. The aggressive police officer may have confused people in his kick. “I have never experienced such behavior of a police officer,” says the dismayed eyewitness, who is by no means posted. It had already happened that the police saved him from opposing fans.
Last December, at the away game in Essen, there were major clashes between sixty supporters and the police- it was the last incident to which Munich said in 1860: “Bottle and can throws on emergency services are not acceptable. At the same time, we also remember the emergency services,” it said. In fact, after everything that can be heard, both sides had taken themselves next to it. Eyewitnesses report that railway officials in the ICE cleared the first class in order to be able to treat the numerous tear gas victims.
A younger generation is said to have beaten the strands, contrary to unwritten fishing laws
Sometimes there is also a kind of self -cleaning process, as after the incidents in Memmingen when the second team was guests there on March 8. A group of fans had overrun the stadium fund and had a considerably damaged regional train on the way back. The Munich fan project of the workers’ welfare then started a fundraiser together with fans, 1000 euros were transferred to Memmingen as an excuse. In the scene, the incident is considered unusual: Contrary to unwritten catch laws, a younger generation is said to have struck the strands that one does not fall out of the role in smaller clubs.
The police report on the return trip from the game at VfL Osnabrück (0-1) last Saturday is currently causing outrage among the followers. There was talk of rioting, the report suggested a destroyed compartment and mobbing pendants, but according to eyewitnesses, “only” was smoked, walls and windows smeared and stickers attached.
When asked whether violence and vandalism are increasing, the German Football Association explains: “The number of criminal proceedings in the area of football games as well as the number of people who are so-called violent and violent people have been constantly low for years, although more people come to the stadiums from year to year-although there are currently” significant individual events “. However, the events of the past few months, not only with 1860 participation, seem to accelerate the development that hostilities are once again solidifying, both among rival fans and between fans and the police.