Leroy Sané and Ilkay Gündogan are offended at the match in Wolfsburg racist. Of the own Fans. The real scandal is that almost no one dared to confront them, says Joscha Weber.
As a “Negro” insulted: “One of them asked how to Sané else to call,” reports a Journalist Voigt
The Stadium. The place of emotions, of triumph, of Suffering, of We-feeling. And The sense of belonging. There is hardly a place in the modern life, we can let our feelings free rein, such as in the arenas of Sports. You are a magnifying glass on society. The whole country is concentrated in a small space together. And there you can live out, times really let go. Scream, cry, rejoice, fear and rush.
Of course, the Latter does not belong to the stadium. And yet you can get it there. Still. Because hardly anyone stands up and disagrees. At the match of the German national team against Serbia in Wolfsburg, three stadium have rushed the visitors against two national players. Not because they have played bad or use had missed. But just because you have a migrant background. Leroy Sané and Ilkay Gündogan are “of a small group of spectators continually been insulted,” said the DFB with the eye-witness report of the journalist André Voigt, whose emotional and accusatory Video causes a stir.
The mass way is listening to
DW sports editor Joscha Weber: “If racists were allowed the stadium to continue as a law-free space, you will use it.”
The words “nigger” and “Negro” were in the stands, but also “You must not say Gypsy schnitzel” or “you must not say Negro’s kiss” or “our women can be raped,” said Voigt in an Interview with the newspaper “world”. And worse still, The apparently drunken “Fans” would have required “a little Austrian,” for Germany, and, finally, the Nazi died-by the Slogan “Heil Hitler”. But the worst thing was: in addition to him self no one had objected to the tribune, the racist Rufern, André Voigt. The incredible reality in German stadiums: can racists let off steam, and the mass-way stop.
Wolfsburg is not an isolated case. Sometimes whole Terraces of a deceased neo-Nazis to commemorate, time to listen to monkey sounds, let’s fly bananas, is offended by the Banner, at other times by speaking choir. It happens in Germany, in Europe, in many Parts of the world. When listening to this incredible discrimination? If we do nothing about it: never.
Racism is a criminal Offence
In the case of Wolfsburg shows that It urgently needs more courage. If racists perceive the stadium continued as a law-free space, you will use it. If the majority is content to silently look the other way, determined by the minority of the Pitch. Now, when midfielder Leon Goretzka calls, active and “with a lot of courage to take action and to have such people in their place”, one can only hope that many follow the example of the journalist Voigt. This would not have been sparked, with his Video, a storm of indignation, would have determined hardly the DFB, were the alleged perpetrators hardly on Friday, the police said. You even get a prison sentence now faces perhaps. Because – and this is apparently forgotten the many people who help overhearing and -see – racism is not a prank, you could just dismiss. Racism is a criminal Offence. Also in the stadium.