DFB impose a high fine due to pyrotechnics use

Referee Tobias Reichel had just kicked off the game between FC St. Pauli and FC Augsburg after the break. But the ball did not roll for a long time. Followers of the FCA had ignited forbidden pyrotechnics, in a network with the Hamburg fog in the stadium on the Millerntor, the view deteriorated in such a way that Reichel had to interrupt the game for three and a half minutes. This and two other missions of Bengal torches and smoking pots gave the FCA a fine.

The control committee of the German Football Association (DFB) raised charges due to unsportsmanlike behavior of the FCA supporters, the DFB sports court ultimately took the Bundesliga club with fines in total height of 52,000 euros. Not only at the Away game in Hamburg Pyrotechnics had been ignited in the guest fan block, as well as in the game At Holstein Kiel (1: 5) And in the home game against VfB Stuttgart (0: 1).

A Bundesliga club has to pay around 1000 euros for each torch

The use of pyrotechnics is prohibited and an administrative offense. Clubs react with stadium bans. If people are harmed, the matter gets criminal relevance. The FCA are the Pyro incidents are increasingly a thorn in the side. The FCA has to pay around 1000 euros for each torch. In the past season alone, the FCA had to pay just under 208,000 euros, of which he had to put 68,750 euros into security -relevant measures.

Among other things, the police are currently investigating for assault. In the home game against FSV Mainz 05 (2: 3), the FCA Ultras had ignited numerous Bengal torches. Around 60 fireworks burned on the Ulrich Biesinger grandstand. What belongs to the fan culture and folklore for the active fan scene had bad consequences for two women. They injured themselves in the campaign. A 27-year-old had fire injuries at the time moved.

Investigations into assault

The police had not given any information about the severity of the injuries. However, the investigators assumed that there had not been a touch between the torch and the injured person, but had resulted in the burns and injuries from a spark flight. The distance between the perpetrator and the damage is said to have more than two rows of standing. One Further victims were suspected of being suspected of flue gas intoxication treated on an outpatient basis. According to our editors, the 20-year-old is said to have become bad in the course of the second half, she is said to have handed over to a toilet.