The state of Bremen is fighting with the DFL about who has to bear the police costs during high-risk Play. The Federal administrative court not to answer the question finally, but charges for the clubs are legal.
The Federal administrative court taken in the dispute over the cost of additional police operations in high-risk games in football, not a decision. It remanded the case to the upper administrative court of Bremen. The presiding judge, Wolfgang beer, announced on Friday in Leipzig, Germany. He stressed, however, that the fee was generally in conformity with the Constitution. Thus, the legal battle between the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen and the German football League (DFL) in the next round.
Specifically, it was the expected verdict of a fee notice by the land of Bremen in the DFL of around 400,000 euros from the year 2015. The DFL had appealed against before the administrative court of Bremen and won. Before the administrative court, the DFL lost then. Now the Federal administrative court should decide in the last instance, could not because of too many unexplained questions but able.
DFL President is afraid to equal opportunities
DFL President Reinhard Rauball
DFL President Reinhard Rauball fear after the decision of the Federal administrative court, that the charges for additional police operations in high-risk play, in principle, the Constitution, are compliant with equal opportunities. “Some clubs, others will not be used. The orders of magnitude, which include these notices, the already noticeable”, he said after the verdict in Leipzig. Rauball admitted that the DFL have introduced the decision differently.
Bremen had the DFL already seven charges notices. Bremen’s interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer had pointed out at the hearing on the high revenues generated by the football score, and therefore a co-financing required. “Whether someone is poor or rich, can play no role in the question of who is responsible and who has to ward off certain dangers,” had Rauball replied.
Police: DFL-fees as one set allowance
The police has to separate the “enemy” fans
Satisfied with the basic decision of the court, that football clubs inserts at the cost of extra police in high-risk Play can be involved, the Chairman of the German police Union, Rainer Wendt. “We see the decision as very positive, because the fees for the DFL are generally regarded as lawful,” said the 62-Year-old the “New Osnabrücker Zeitung”. “I’m sure that the DFL, which earned billions with the football, will be involved in the cost. The Whole will then have a model for other States.”
Wendt calls, the expected fees payable to the DFL as the use of allowances to use for the riot police. “The money must be forwarded to the police, the stall week in and week out your head that high-profile soccer games ever to take place,” he said. “These officers risk their life and health, Hooliganism, and football-to stop violence and should be rewarded for it.”
asz/sn (dpa, sid)