BVB professional Jude Bellingham criticizes referee Felix Zwayer sharply and is therefore reported. In addition to the public prosecutor, the DFB is also investigating. Actually, he shouldn’t be punished, says sports lawyer Christoph Schickhardt.
BA referee observer reported a complaint against the Dortmund professional footballer Jude Bellingham and the former top referee Manuel Graefe, according to him, as a private action. Bellingham had harshly criticized referee Felix Zwayer after BVB’s 3-2 defeat on Saturday in the Bundesliga top game against front runners Bayern Munich. The Dortmund police confirmed the receipt of the report to the dpa on Monday that it had been forwarded to the public prosecutor’s office for examination.
The referee observer Marco Haase filed a complaint in Dortmund and Berlin as a private person. First the “Bild” reported about it. The German Football Association has not yet been aware of this. However, the Control Committee has launched an investigation against Bellingham. He was asked to comment on his statement as soon as possible, the DFB announced on Monday.
Will no longer be friends: Jude Bellingham and referee Felix Zwayer
Source: dpa / Bernd Thissen
Specifically, it is about the sentence: “You give a referee who has already postponed games the biggest game in Germany. What do you expect? ”After the evaluation, the control committee will decide on the further progress of the procedure.
“His sentence is not wrong,” says Watzke
What threatens the Dortmund now? If it is up to sports lawyer Christoph Schickhardt, actually nothing. “There is no trace of what Bellingham said. His statement is indecent, but not objectionable, it is clearly covered by the right to freedom of expression, “said Schickhardt, who has been active in German professional football for decades, the” kicker “:” Anyone who has employed something like Zwayer has to live with it. In my opinion, the DFB cannot take action against Bellingham. “
This is also how the Dortmunders see it, who explicitly point out that Bellingham only mentioned facts. “His sentence is not wrong, even if he doesn’t have to say it,” said club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke: “But that’s also due to the emotionality that you have to admit to an 18-year-old. Jude did not offend anyone, but described a fact. “
The English international had verbally attacked Zwayer, among other things, because of the controversial hand elf meter that Robert Lewandowski used to win Bayern. “These statements apply to all referees down to the base at the district level who are on the road week after week and ensure that games are maintained and that our sports fields are fair,” Haase explained to “az-online.de”.
Gräfe “underground as well as in solidarity”
Manuel Grafe commented on the scene on Saturday evening in the “sports studio” and criticized Zwayer’s performance. The Berliner, who is no longer a referee for reasons of age, had previously weathered Zwayer several times due to his involvement in the 2005 betting scandal surrounding ex-referee Robert Hoyzer. “Anyone who has accepted money once and has kept Hoyzer’s manipulation secret for six months should not whistle professional football,” Graefe had only said in the summer.
In 2014, the “Zeit” reported that Zwayer had been banned by the DFB Sports Court for six months in 2006, among other things because he had initially not reported the match manipulation known to him and he is said to have accepted money from Hoyzer in one case. The judgment was initially not known because it had not been published by the DFB. In the meantime, however, the FIFA referee has long been rehabilitated.
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