Ice hockey Cologne Sharks
Intimations of murder against children from the national team captain
Status: 08.01.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Moritz Müller: “No matter what, something like that just doesn’t work”
Source: dpa/Pavel Golovkin
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In German ice hockey, players and clubs are increasingly making hate speech and calls for violence public on social media. A particularly disturbing case now concerns Moritz Müller, the captain of the national team. His club and the authorities react.
Insinuations of murder against the children of national team captain Moritz Müller have left the ice hockey defender and the Cologne Sharks horrified. “We are stunned and shocked at how people are able to make such threats to other people,” the sharks said.
“We are in close contact with our captain and assure him of all support. Together with the authorities, it is now a matter of determining who is responsible for this disgusting action and examining criminal consequences.”
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The 37-year-old Sharks captain made the case public himself via Instagram. His post included a comment from an Instagram user on a family photo of Müller. First, the perpetrator posted a knife and a drop of red blood and then wrote on the photo of Müller with his three children: “I would kill these worms for such a terrible game of yours.” Müller commented on his own post in his Instagram story the sentence: “No matter what, something like that just doesn’t work.”
Called to storm the office
The post was preceded by the Haie’s 4:5 defeat in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) at ERC Ingolstadt, in which Müller received a game misconduct penalty after just 70 seconds.
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In the DEL in particular, clubs have been pointing out online hate speech for some time. At the end of 2023, the Düsseldorfer EG took action against a Facebook user who had called for a “storm on the office” in view of the disappointing season so far. At the beginning of November 2023, Christian Hommel also resigned as sports director of the Iserlohn Roosters after his family was repeatedly threatened.
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