Dortmund to close mount following hooligan attacks on families

The south stand, famous as a ‘Gelbe Wand’ (Yellow Wall), binds 25,000 supporters during Borussia’s 80,000-capacity Signal Iduna Park track and will be sealed for Saturday’s home joining compare opposite Wolfsburg.

Dortmund had until noon on Monday to accept a punishment handed out by a German Football Association (DFB) final Friday to tighten a mount and excellent a bar €100,000.

“After weighing adult a arguments, Borussia Dortmund has motionless to accept a DFB’s chastisement and a extreme punishment of shutting a whole south mount for a Wolfsburg match,” pronounced Borussia in a statement.

“We are also now scheming measures and sanctions opposite a perpetrators as a effect of a incidents and will benefaction a formula in a entrance weeks.”

The complicated permit has been handed out after hooligans threw stones and bottles during visiting RB Leipzig fans, including families with children, before a Bundesliga compare on Feb 4th.

Police done 28 arrests, 4 officers were harmed and 10 Leipzig supporters were hospitalised for diagnosis due to a assault before kick-off.

During a game, some 60 banners temperament anti-RB Leipzig slogans, many of that were offensive, were hold adult by Dortmund fans in a south stand.

Dortmund bosses have apologised to their RB Leipzig counterparts.