“Schalke is not a slaughterhouse”
Fans of the Bundesliga club are protesting against the chairman of the supervisory board, Clemens Tönnies, who made headlines with massive corona infections in his slaughterhouse.
- Clemens Tönnies has been criticized for days.
- The billionaire owns a meat factory in North Rhine-Westphalia, in which corona infections occurred in large numbers.
- Fans of Schalke 04 protested their club president on Saturday.
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Around 1,000 supporters of FC Schalke 04 demonstrated around the Veltins Arena against the chairman of the supervisory board Clemens Tönnies and the club board on Saturday. At the same time as the last Bundesliga season game of the team of coach David Wagner at SC Freiburg in the afternoon, the fans formed a human chain on the Berger Feld club premises in compliance with the hygiene regulations.
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The demonstration under the motto “Schalke is not a slaughterhouse – against the disassembly of our club” had previously been approved subject to conditions. Up to 2000 people were admitted. According to organizer Stefan Barta, about 1200 fans came, according to the Gelsenkirchen police “significantly less”. Everything remained peaceful.
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“Tönnies out”
«As Schalke you have been ashamed lately. This has nothing to do with the buddy and painting club anymore. But we expect the management of the association to live our mission statement, ”criticized co-organizer Katharina Strohmeyer on Saturday.
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The Schalke fans had placed their messages on banners in several places. “Our board – a social and moral flop!”, They complained. «The biggest bulldozer doesn’t help anymore! Tö̈nnies out! »Was a demand elsewhere.
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Meat entrepreneur Tönnies is the main target of the protests. For days, the massive corona infections in his large company in Rheda-Wiedenbrück as well as the accommodation and payment of the factory workers have been making negative headlines.
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(DPA)
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