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Riots: Dynamo fans riot in Bayreuth – Sport

A completely destroyed drinks kiosk in the stadium, torn out urinals in the toilet for the guest fans, two demolished Deutsche Bahn trains and 14 injured police officers – Dynamo Dresden supporters have a lead on their journey to the third division away game at SpVgg Bayreuth (1: 1). left to desolation. The exact balance of the damage cannot yet be drawn, says the spokesman for the Bayreuth management, Wolfgang Gruber: “We are still sorting everything out with the police and our security partners.”

Already on arrival from Saxony there was damage to property on one of the trains, allegedly because of a 15-minute delay, windows were scratched and tables torn out. On the way from Bayreuth train station to the stadium, a journalist from the North Bavarian Courier, who wanted to photograph the 1300-strong fan march, were grabbed by Dresdeners and pulled into the crowd. They “snatched the cameras from his shoulders and kicked them on the floor like footballs,” writes the local newspaper. The journalist was unharmed.

During the game it was quiet inside the Hans Walter Wild Stadium. TV viewers saw nothing of the violent excesses that took place behind the guest curve shortly after half-time. About 100 Dynamo supporters attacked the police, who had rushed to the aid of a folder. They dismantled a snack kiosk, stole the register filled with 5,000 to 10,000 euros and used the rubble of the booth and even refrigerators as projectiles against the officers. The damage to property plus the caterer’s stolen earnings is around 20,000 euros. The Bayreuth criminal police have started investigations “in several cases of serious breaches of the peace”. Dynamo fans also misbehaved on the return trip, as Bayreuth spokesman Gruber learned from Deutsche Bahn that a train was massively damaged.

Gruber contradicts rumors that there was no alcohol in the stadium, which would have triggered the riots: “We were prepared for what was to come. There are games where it’s better if you serve alcohol.” In Michael Born you have a managing director for sports and finances who used to work at Dynamo himself and knows the fan culture there well,” says Gruber, who in his capacity as a doctor during the game also treated a Dresden fan who was heavily intoxicated fell from the stands and sustained a serious head injury.

A violent conflict is now raging between a Bayreuth local newspaper and SpVgg boss Gruber

Meanwhile, a violent argument rages between Gruber and the North Bavarian Courier. Before the game, an editor of the newspaper had commented on a call for Dynamo fans to “come to Bayreuth in bomber jackets” as follows: “That may also have something positive about it, because nowadays Nazis rarely make themselves known so openly .” An “unnecessary provocation” for Wolfgang Gruber, he replied to the journalist on Facebook: “They spontaneously insult every one of the estimated 4,000 Dresden fans who own an aviator, uh, bomber jacket as Nazis.” And further: “Should there be riots in Bayreuth today, it is mainly due to commentators like you!”

In the aftermath, the functionary emphasizes his criticism: “I don’t want to do any perpetrator-victim reversal here, but putting all Dynamo fans in this drawer was unprofessional on the part of the journalist and additionally shortened the fuse of the violent supporters.”

Meanwhile he North Bavarian Courier Gruber harshly criticized for his Facebook post: This relativizes “from the outset possible violence and possible other illegal actions by the actual perpetrators and instead blames commentators for it,” says a comment by the deputy editor-in-chief: “Wolfgang Gruber, as a democratically elected city councilor, should think about what freedom of speech means in a democracy.”

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