After recent riots in East‑German football stadiums, the new Minister‑President of Saxony‑Anhalt, Sven Schulze (CDU), has called for lifetime bans at sporting venues modeled on the British system.
Schulze said he could not understand how “chaotic” individuals had “pushed onto the police, hurled drainage covers and stones”.
With violence rising and police deployments stretching thin, he explained that the current security strategy was no longer sufficient. He urged the German Football League (DFL) and the German Football Association (DFB) to provide “clear solutions”.
Reinstating strict rules from England, Schulze remarked that he is a big fan of the Premier League and that in the UK a person who commits such offences receives an instant lifetime stadium ban – “that is the only way it can be handled”.
He also stressed the need for tighter checks at stadium entrances.
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