In the European Cup game in Istanbul will be prevented Fans from Borussia Mönchengladbach to take a Flag into the stadium, which shows the coat of arms of the city of a cross. The Association will complain to UEFA.
Sports Director Max Eberl spoke of the “police dictatorship”. Managing Director Stephan Schippers was stunned: “we could not imagine never, even on other trips.” And mönchengladbach’s Lord mayor Hans Wilhelm Reiners (CDU), expressed his incomprehension: “That football fans are prevented from Mönchengladbach in Istanbul to take a Flag with our old town coat of arms shows the Saint Vitus as the patron Saint of our city, to the stadium, is not acceptable for me.” Reiners called on the Turkish Association, to dissociate themselves “from such behavior.”
Flag shows the old city of mönchengladbach coat of arms
Came to the incident before the kick-off of the Europa League game at the Basaksehir Istanbul, the favorite team of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Supporters of Borussia were not allowed to take a certain Flag into the stadium, the coat of arms it contains a cross, a Bishop’s staff and the city’s patron Saint the Holy Vitus.
The “Fanhilfe Mönchengladbach” – a community of solidarity, to the followers of the club can be in the case of conflicts of a legal nature – speaks of a “massively uncooperative” Turkish police, who refused with them, as also to talk to the SLOs of the Association, as well as from Germany travelling spotters, the Gladbach police.
No problems at Besiktas
No complaint had the Turkish police on the same evening, when the flags of the Fans of the Wolverhampton Wanderes in Istanbul
During Meetings in the run-up to the appropriate symbols were not classified clearly as a problem. “It makes me extremely sad that we will be in 2019 in Europe such conditions that the police can dictate what flags coming into the stadium”, scolded Gladbach’s sports Director.
The UEFA sermon as European Cup organisers also always tolerance, left behind in the Gladbach camp, a disturbing impression. “In an age of tolerance, it just doesn’t fit”, was world champion Christoph Kramer.
Neither police nor the club are not commenting on the subject, which did not take place in the Turkish media. At the same time the game Besiktas Istanbul against Wolverhampton Wanderers was held on Thursday evening there flags of the guests were admitted with a cross in the stadium.
og/gri (dpa)