Bremen’s Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) insists on his demands. Photo: Carmen Jaspersen
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This was shared by a spokeswoman for Bremen’s Senator for the Interior, Ulrich Mäurer This was announced by a spokeswoman for Bremen’s Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) of the German Press Agency on request. So far, the state of Bremen has specifically sent two invoices totaling EUR 653,176.11. The DFL has now filed a lawsuit with the Bremen Administrative Court against the first for the northern derby on April 19, 2015 against Hamburger SV (424,718.11 euros).
A hearing date has not yet been set. The DFL is still working on the justification for its lawsuit. The termination of a negotiation is therefore likely to take some time. According to Bremen, 969 police officers were on duty in April 2015.
There has not yet been a reaction to the second bill for the game on May 16, 2015 against Borussia Mönchengladbach. However, the DFL had always emphasized in the past that it wanted to defend itself “with all available legal means”. An out-of-court settlement seems impossible at the moment.
As a precaution, the state of Bremen also sent out three further fee announcements for the games on November 28, 2015 against Hamburger, on March 5, 2016 against Hannover 96 and on the last day of the past season against Eintracht Frankfurt. The state estimates the costs for this at a total of 800,000 euros to 1.1 million euros. The total claim could thus increase to around 1.7 million euros.
Bremen only sends out specific invoices a few months after the relevant police operations, if corresponding invoices from “external forces” are available. Own police forces are calculated in full in the fee notifications minus a flat rate of 70,000 euros, which is also estimated for normal football games. According to Bremen, only overtime, expenses and the cost of horses are charged for external workers.
Bremen is the first and only federal state to demand cost sharing for football games classified as so-called risk games. The other federal states – some of which also ruled red-green – had rejected this.
