From the point of view of Bremen’s Senator for the Interior Ulrich Mäurer (SPD), games in the national soccer leagues should be interrupted.
“We expose the police officers to an unnecessarily great danger if we send them across the country in the middle of the fourth wave just to secure football games against violent fans,” said Mäurer, according to a statement on Friday. In view of the rapidly increasing corona numbers, this is no longer justifiable. Before the interior ministers’ conference at the beginning of December, he urged his colleagues to act. “It is high time that the German Football League interrupted the game,” said Mäurer. “It is important to set priorities in the crisis. Securing a soccer game is definitely not one of them. “
Mäurer said the public rightly expects the police to participate in controls and stop violent demonstrations or riots in connection with the pandemic. In his letter in advance of the conference of interior ministers, he asked for advice and a cohesive approach in order not to unnecessarily promote the pandemic. “We have to work on the DFL to interrupt the game immediately or at least to start only ghost games for the time being.”
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