How Leipzig fans face abuse and assault during other football clubs

An RB Leipzig fan has described how hooligans in Dortmund pounded their group, that enclosed children, with stones and bottles and levels of loathing towards a Red Bull-backed bar that have repelled German football.

Hooliganism is zero new in German football, though Saturday’s assault meted out to RB Leipzig supporters, including immature families, was a heartless uninformed low.

Some of a shocked 8,000 RB Leipzig supporters, who saw their group remove 1-0 in front of 81,360 during Dortmund’s intimidating Signal Iduna Park stadium, were pounded en track to a game.

“On a approach to a Borussia stadium, a fans weren’t separated,” RB Leipzig fan Lars H. told German daily Bild.

“They threw eggs, cans, bottles and stones during us, flags and scarves were ripped away.

“Our children were pushed and attacked, we had to get them to a sides.

There were several people injured, some with lacerations.

“In 8 years of being a fan I’ve never gifted anything as bad as in Dortmund.”

Severed bull’s head

Hatred from opposition fans is something RasenBallsport Leipzig, founded by Red Bull in 2009, has had to understanding with on a trail to Germany’s tip tier.

Following 4 promotions in 7 years they are viewed as a hazard to all things good about German football since of a apparent commercialism they represent.

RasenBallsport — GrassBallsport — is a built German word to get around a anathema on Bundesliga clubs temperament a sponsor’s name.

The Bundesliga’s “50+1” order stops clubs being run by a singular abounding financier and a members contingency have a determining share, solely RB Leipzig has only 17 members – who are all radically Red Bull employees.

At a start of a season, Borussia’s CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke was one of RB’s many outspoken critics, observant Leipzig “play football to perform for cans of drink”.

The conduct of a severed longhorn was thrown into a personification area when Leipzig mislaid a German Cup compare during Dynamo Dresden in August.

And home fans in perfume staged a sit-down criticism that blocked a RB group train and meant a kick-off for a joining diversion was behind in September.

But Dortmund was something else.

During a Bundesliga match, Leipzig players had laser lights shone into their faces from a terraces and there were around 60 banners in a track with anti-Red Bull slogans.

One of a many descent read: “Burn-out, Ralle: go hang yourself”, referring to Ralf Rangnick, RB’s executive of competition who quiescent from Schalke in 2011 with exhaustion.

“That’s sick,” pronounced Borussia Mönchengladbach’s executive Max Eberl.

“What happened there and what we have all seen, is a disaster for football.”

Oil on a fire?

Eberl’s Gladbach horde RB in 10 days and he says “the horizon of good goodness contingency be maintained” so that visiting fans can watch a diversion but fear.

In a video message, Dortmund tutor Watzke pronounced a bar will do “everything in a power” to locate a culprits and dual fans obliged for a banners have been identified, reported Bild.

Police chiefs have criticised Dortmund for permitting a banners into a stadium.

And Watzke’s pointy “performing cans” criticism final year could have fuelled a assault from Dortmund’s “Ultras”, according to a fan expert.

“The doubt during this indicate is either one, as conduct of a club, a team, a tutor or a CEO, still pours oil on a fire, meaningful that their possess fan enlightenment can’t understanding with it,” Professor Harald Lange told Cologne-based journal Kölner Stadtanzeiger.

According to Munich-based journal Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dortmund’s hooligans were prevented by military from aggressive a Leipzig group train and afterwards directed their undone charge during visiting fans.

Dortmund can design to be heavily punished by a German Football Association (DFB).

The club’s comparison total are anticipating there will be no serve assault for Wednesday’s German Cup third-round diversion during home to Hertha Berlin.

Dortmund are already on trial carrying been fined €75,000 after their fans rioted following May’s German Cup final when Dortmund mislaid on penalties to Bayern Munich.