A video from Stuttgart is spreading on social media in which fans of the Turkish football club Galatasaray Istanbul are apparently Slogan “Foreigners out” The public prosecutor’s office is now taking a closer look at the matter.
“We are examining whether there are sufficient actual indications of criminally relevant behavior,” a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office confirmed on Tuesday. Several media outlets had previously reported on the video.
The clip published on the X platform shows a large number of people including in the jerseys of the Turkish club. The racist slogan “Foreigners out” can be heard repeatedly. The public prosecutor’s office was initially unable to say to what extent the video is relevant under criminal law.
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Something similar is said to have happened in Hamburg. The “Hamburger Abendblatt” reports on a group of young men who sang the Song lines “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out” sung Hundreds of fans of the Istanbul football club also gathered in the Hanseatic city on Monday evening to celebrate the victory together.
The celebration on Jungfernstieg now has repercussions, reports the “Abendblatt”. State security has launched an investigation.
Fan club boss calls incident “shameful”
Ayhan Yildiz, Chairman of the Galatasaray Sport and Fan Club eV Stuttgart, called the incident “shameful”He himself was there on site, on Königstrasse.
In his opinion, the calls could be based on a growing hostility lie between people with a migration background and people who have only recently lived in Germany. Others are simply trying to attract attention with such sayings on the Internet, he criticised.
Only a few days ago, a video of party guests on Sylt caused nationwide outrage. Guests had racist slogans sung to the tune of a party hit.
The Turkish defending champion Galatasaray Istanbul won the championship 3-1 (1-0) against Konyaspor on Sunday on the last matchday of the Süper Lig. There were celebrations in several cities, including Stuttgart.